What forum do you use?

[Quixilated]

your poem is a precious and wonderful thing that dropped wholly formed and shining in the holy poetry garden of glory.

Where is this garden? I absolutely must go there!!!


And Lizzie, I wish I could help you, but I think I only post in Fun anymore.  Partly because that's why I write, it's my happy place.  Partly because it seems like the least scary forum ... sort of the way no one can be angry at bubbles or kittens.  And even then, I usually can't seem to actually hit that "post" button most of the time. So I sit on my poems like a hen waiting for a nest full of boiled eggs to hatch.  

But for you, I think you have been getting lots of responses on your poetry, they've all been very successful whether you've posted in Misc or in Mild.  If you like having a variety of opinions, keep posting in mild, because not everyone has the time or courage to crit a poem in serious.  But if you really want it completely analyzed from the inside out by people who know what they're about, then put it in serious. Yes, you will have technically fewer people respond, but that's a situation where less is more.  You can't rate a poem's success by counting comments.  One "Leanne" comment on a poem would require you to work infinitely harder than one "Quix" comment (for example). But as Todd said, you have to be willing to return the favor, and you have to be wiling to actually take the lumps.    

I think whatever you are doing is working, your poetry is lovely.  

--Quix