06-25-2018, 08:45 AM
All very good and thoughtful critiques, thank you all for your time and considertion of my work.
As an aside I did want to ask this; Do we (poetry writers ) over think the cliche critique?
That is to say, we read and write poetry all the time and to us everything is just about cliche.
Now I ran my poem through a bussines network I am part of (13,000 + followers)
and most of the feedback I received was not only positive but embracing of the work.
Some did say "this is not a social network" or "that kind of stuff does not belong here"
but i'm not counting those barbarians (LOL)
Examples of the feedback:
1. The line "faked smiles wrinkle mournful cheeks" is a very powerful one.
2. Poignant and beautiful.
3. An adorable poem. love line 10
4. No way !!! You know the truth!
Again these are not poets and writers they are mostly in Banking, Finance and Insurance.
Without being laborius about it, my point of all this is-
Who are we writting for?
Poets and writers or are we writing for (for a lack of a better term) poetic plebeians?
who want and like sap and syrup such as provided by the likes of:
Cockney School of poets
A dismissive name for London-based Romantic poets such as John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The term was first used in a scathing review in Blackwood’s Magazine in October 1817, in which the anonymous
reviewer mocked the poets’ lack of pedigree and sophistication.
Maybe this poetic philosophic thought should be posted on another thread just throwing it out there
As an aside I did want to ask this; Do we (poetry writers ) over think the cliche critique?
That is to say, we read and write poetry all the time and to us everything is just about cliche.
Now I ran my poem through a bussines network I am part of (13,000 + followers)
and most of the feedback I received was not only positive but embracing of the work.
Some did say "this is not a social network" or "that kind of stuff does not belong here"
but i'm not counting those barbarians (LOL)
Examples of the feedback:
1. The line "faked smiles wrinkle mournful cheeks" is a very powerful one.
2. Poignant and beautiful.
3. An adorable poem. love line 10
4. No way !!! You know the truth!
Again these are not poets and writers they are mostly in Banking, Finance and Insurance.
Without being laborius about it, my point of all this is-
Who are we writting for?
Poets and writers or are we writing for (for a lack of a better term) poetic plebeians?
who want and like sap and syrup such as provided by the likes of:
Cockney School of poets
A dismissive name for London-based Romantic poets such as John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The term was first used in a scathing review in Blackwood’s Magazine in October 1817, in which the anonymous
reviewer mocked the poets’ lack of pedigree and sophistication.
Maybe this poetic philosophic thought should be posted on another thread just throwing it out there
Someday the Mystery will be known 