Into the Throes

[ChristopherSea]

I meant to make a comment that I shared with another here, regarding your statement that this piece received great praise on another site. On most 'other sites' people are vying for audience, star ratings or some absurd and meaningless top ten list. Anything that they say about your poetry has almost no validity and absolutely no valuable critique. They are looking for reads, ratings, acceptance and popularity. Here you receive the honest truth, which can bite, but you can work to edit a much better piece. I do feel that everyone needs to do a better job at sharing their impressions of a piece, as edits alone don't help me perfect an emotive poem if the critic says nothing about the theme. Finally, you can ask a moderator to move your poem to miscellaneous or fun if you don't want any heavy critique. Hang in here!