08-09-2013, 07:52 PM
(08-09-2013, 07:03 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote: [quote='ray' pid='135787' dateline='137598981But I haven't mentioned "others", still less that I believe them to be crapping out their poems. And when I refer to sites such as this one, I mean all poetry sites. There's a certain sadness in seeing poems disappear off the page is all.
Writing poetry can be both a labor of love and like childbirth. If you feel that way about your work, whilst believing that others are just 'crapping them out' so to speak, I would have incorporated it into your poem.
Before criticising a person try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise that person, you are a mile away.... and you have their shoes.