Funny, I sort of do the opposite. I post poems I want a thoughtful response to because I'm not certain, to TDE. I post poems I just want to share, not necessarily less polished--often more--to Metrical. I welcome crits on both.
I do think we tended to favour vanilla a little occasionally, mind you that's not necessarily always bad. I think we self-edit our material for TDE and that may be more our doing than anything else. Jax is an honorable exception.
I don't think it's necessarily more honest or profound to write about the dark side, but it's obligatory to have a place for it.
Nor, as you've noticed, do I think a delightful bauble is a thing to despise.
We want the lot!
Janet
PS Rose,
The two poems you mentioned are among the most polished poems I've read anywhere for some time. What's "polished"?
Sometimes I fear that "polished" can be code for "translated".
[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited November 16, 2006).]
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