Rows of Unanswered Poems
Posted: 14 Mar 2013, 02:11
After a while I noticed
people gave up
as if responding was beneath them.
Or maybe they were upset, some
complained that no one wrote a critique
on their masterpiece...
only it wasn't
good enough to be place in any class.
Few thanked the poet who laboriously
followed the forum rules, who
painstakingly poured over the dross
of others and attempted to make
sense and order from the chaos.
Some poets presented the same work time after time
in a different dress, and we groaned
within. The forum attracted more members,
but the communal spirit had gone.
Rows of poems with one comment
sat waiting for interaction, but it is as if
they were all dead to the work of others.
We know the world does not understand
poetry, and that the world does not
value poetry, but when estanblished
artists ignore their fellow artists work it becomes
hard.
Is it so hard to respond? or even thank the
poet who replied, even if it was rubbish
at least he read it, at least he tried.
people gave up
as if responding was beneath them.
Or maybe they were upset, some
complained that no one wrote a critique
on their masterpiece...
only it wasn't
good enough to be place in any class.
Few thanked the poet who laboriously
followed the forum rules, who
painstakingly poured over the dross
of others and attempted to make
sense and order from the chaos.
Some poets presented the same work time after time
in a different dress, and we groaned
within. The forum attracted more members,
but the communal spirit had gone.
Rows of poems with one comment
sat waiting for interaction, but it is as if
they were all dead to the work of others.
We know the world does not understand
poetry, and that the world does not
value poetry, but when estanblished
artists ignore their fellow artists work it becomes
hard.
Is it so hard to respond? or even thank the
poet who replied, even if it was rubbish
at least he read it, at least he tried.