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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2009 11:16AM by frost42_24.
I like this succinct second version, period.
Peter
haha. two terrible poems...just had to take them down.
I doubt you know that feeling, Peter. You never write terrible poems. I haven't written anything even remotely decent in at least a year or more.ugh.
Sherry,
I appreciate your kindness. My workshop files on my computer contain up to ten poems for every one I post in the forum some months. I just don't put the really bad ones out for review. By really bad, I mean the poems I write that I can't get anything out of. I always told my students that they had to get the bad stuff out of them so they could get to the stuff worth working on and worth reworking. I am a reformed perfectionist, so at some level I feel even our best work can be improved.
Still, I could empathize with you retracting work you were dissatisfied with. When I set about getting a book's worth of poems together, that is when I come face-to-face with how disappointed I am with many of the poems I do post. But I almost never delete work from the forum because I value so highly any comments people might want to make...even if they just want to say: take a day off, Peter.
cheers, hope the holidays went well for you...I'm in recovery mode today.
amo,
Peter
Happy holidays to you too, Peter. Thanks for the support and the cheer on.