Sometimes I Bleed

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ok, I just plain simply give up.

You had better not give up after all the effort put in by the critics. Serious now. Giving up is only a temporary holding position. If you really want to enjoy your own poetic experience then just stop and take measure. What you put up on the board was fair game and was accordingly shot down. You appear to understand the reasons for this injurous attetmpt and will have learned a hell of a lot more than if you had suffered from dangerously encouraging praise.
No one who criticises other's efforts on sites like this have any claim to perfection. It follows that this writer has no such claim either. What you do is take the bits from the critics which you can agree with and bugger the rest.
That way, it is still your poetry. If you disagree completely with everything the critics say, then bugger you Just go home happy but remember that sometimes you will bleed.
Best,
Tectak

Well, I have you off lost in a desert some place with "The three wise men" thinking you are Jesus.. and another resurrecting the dead, I realize the piece was vague and somewhat abstract... but no more so than when I read most of the poetry written by others here without having a damn clue what you are all writing about. So this leaves me scratching my head, I see no direction other than just abandoning poetry and writing because the more I do it, the more futile the effort becomes.