I will probably draw fire here, but I am very weary of posting a poem, and then the first or second critiquer to comment asks a question of me or indicates a need for clarification. I then answer straightforwardly -- only to have the critiquer let loose with an ad hom or spitefulness directed at me.
This spoils the thread. It gets the poem off on a bad foot, and it biases comments further down the line by other members of the community.
I am a sensitive person. Poets are not generally thick-skinned, unfeeling individuals. That connection to our feelings underlies our art. Words meant in derision or spite ARE painful. One has to process the words, percolate them through one's mind, to attenuate the venom.
When such words appear in the thread under my poem very early on, it means that every time I visit the thread I have to go through a process to depotentiate the rancor. It also means that every other member of the community who encounters the hostile remark(s) will need to deal with them too.
So I'm drawing the line. When my poems elicit an ad hom or spitefulness right off the bat, I'm pulling them.
Fred
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