Dale said;
"i'm not a very good judge of my own work"
i think that's true for most poets. the truth is many poets don't see it that way. they often think because they wrote it, they're the best judge of it being good or bad. i've always said (well not always of course) i've written two of what i would call publishable poems, the rest vary from novice to mediocre (i think) i love honest feedback and though i don't always do edits in the same week i get feedback, i guarantee that in a few months or so i'll go back over a lot of them and put them back up with an edit or as a new poem. and i agree that a poem is never finished, though some are pensioned off they've been worked that hard
"i'm not a very good judge of my own work"
i think that's true for most poets. the truth is many poets don't see it that way. they often think because they wrote it, they're the best judge of it being good or bad. i've always said (well not always of course) i've written two of what i would call publishable poems, the rest vary from novice to mediocre (i think) i love honest feedback and though i don't always do edits in the same week i get feedback, i guarantee that in a few months or so i'll go back over a lot of them and put them back up with an edit or as a new poem. and i agree that a poem is never finished, though some are pensioned off they've been worked that hard