Poetry Tip: Don't Communicate

[ellajam]

This is a frequent issue for me. Yes, I want to communicate something with the poem but for me it is difficult to walk the line between ambiguity and too much information. When readers here let me know that something is confusing I try to clarify and often bog the poem down, I am trying to learn to just say it a bit differently, maybe not closing every hole but still getting the reader somewhere near where I'm aiming. It's a challenge.