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[justlikeyou]

 (I just checked and you have not given anyone a single critique).   

What's true is that I don't know much about forms of poetry beyond haiku, and that only since last August when I discovered it, leaving much yet to learn

What's not true is that I have not given a single critique of anyone. 

When I signed up here last Fall I had to give three critiques before beng allowed to post. I was here only briefly but am certain I gave more critiques in the short time that I was. 

Since I returned only recently I posted one the 16th in Elektron, and another was taken down as it was deemed too much about my own reaction as it related to the poem. 

But still, according to the rules, I haven't done enough. 

It's hard though when I don't feel qualified to post in forms outside of short verse, and not much happens in that section. 

And not to be rude, but I find it difficult to find anything that moves me to respond with words of criticism, not because of the quality of the poem, but because I honestly feel at a loss to do so. Many times I've read a work here and all I have is my personal reaction, i.e. how it made me feel or what it provoked within, and that isn't allowed it seems. 

As such, I feel that the quota is a bit contrived in that, for me, to follow it, I would have to fake it. That doesn't seem fair to the writer somehow.

But still, the rules are the rules, and I will consider your words carefully.