Absolutely, this resonates so deeply. I love how you’ve framed poetry as a living, breathing art, much like music, with its own genres, rhythms, and languages. Rejection isn’t a reflection of worth, it’s just the audience and the work finding their right match.
Your words are a reminder that the wild, messy, passionate parts of creativity are exactly what make it matter. Thank you for this permission slip to be fully ourselves in our art.
I have never run the submission gauntlet but even posting to followers sometimes a poem lands and other times it doesn't. I try to think of my poems as love objects from myself to myself that I share with others. If you love them too I am happy for you but if not I love them. I give myself beautiful gifts.
Absolutely, this resonates so deeply. I love how you’ve framed poetry as a living, breathing art, much like music, with its own genres, rhythms, and languages. Rejection isn’t a reflection of worth, it’s just the audience and the work finding their right match.
Your words are a reminder that the wild, messy, passionate parts of creativity are exactly what make it matter. Thank you for this permission slip to be fully ourselves in our art.
Yessss! The messy bits are the best bits. Let’s please, please keep them.
I have never run the submission gauntlet but even posting to followers sometimes a poem lands and other times it doesn't. I try to think of my poems as love objects from myself to myself that I share with others. If you love them too I am happy for you but if not I love them. I give myself beautiful gifts.