08-19-2011, 05:15 AM
You're most welcome 
As for being more edjumacated, you want to know how most of us get to sound that way? Practising on unsuspecting victims like yourself! Honestly, all the book learning and professorial panel poetry is nowhere near as valuable as just kicking it around with a group of moderately loony people who love poems.
Any editing suggestions are always only suggestions, not commands -- nobody knows where you want your poem to be except you. Don't feel you have to explain, but we do love a discussion about nits and picks because... well, moderately loony remember? And a funny thing happens occasionally -- when you think a suggestion is completely wrong and then you start discussing it, turns out it's actually quite a good idea and will take your poem in a much more interesting direction. Not saying that's what everything we say is going to do, but I know from personal experience that sometimes the unlikeliest ideas (from the unlikeliest sources!) turn out to make a really great difference.
Anyway, it's good to have you chatting away to us, it makes us feel loved
As for being more edjumacated, you want to know how most of us get to sound that way? Practising on unsuspecting victims like yourself! Honestly, all the book learning and professorial panel poetry is nowhere near as valuable as just kicking it around with a group of moderately loony people who love poems. Any editing suggestions are always only suggestions, not commands -- nobody knows where you want your poem to be except you. Don't feel you have to explain, but we do love a discussion about nits and picks because... well, moderately loony remember? And a funny thing happens occasionally -- when you think a suggestion is completely wrong and then you start discussing it, turns out it's actually quite a good idea and will take your poem in a much more interesting direction. Not saying that's what everything we say is going to do, but I know from personal experience that sometimes the unlikeliest ideas (from the unlikeliest sources!) turn out to make a really great difference.
Anyway, it's good to have you chatting away to us, it makes us feel loved
It could be worse