[Janice D. Soderling]

Actually the sticky title is "About Poems on GT".

But after rereading the sticky, maybe I should add that the spur-of-the-moment text I posted above was intended to jocularly illustrate the difficulties of fixing a poem in any way except the way we do daily in the regular forums. Hopefully only a died-in-the-wool Flarfer or a very kind critter would confuse it with a real poem.

I am starting to feel like a nay-sayer but (sorry, Janet) this idea presents the same problems for me as the "Sucking Poem" forum. It siphons away some of the workshop strength to open a "Kiddies Pool" poem forum beside the "Today's Inspirational Thought" poem forum. In other words it dilutes participation in the creative forums already existing and opens for ego-enhancing fluff and flarf.

It seems to me that spontaneous poetry, sketches and poem development belong to a pre-workshop stage or perhaps in a blog if one wishes to document the rise and flow of their creative powers.

Why open a Repair Shop for things that aren't broken?

Mine is only one opinion though, and I may be an inane voice crying shriily in the poetic wilderness.