This comes with apologies, as you have so many to entries, and my heart is the wrong place for writing today, but this prompt kind of struck me, so here it is. I do not know what possessed me to include a poem, I can't take a hint and move on from poetry, I will get there.
Anyway, thank you very much for the practise
Welcome! Poems are just fine. We have quite a few people who like to write 50-word stories in poetry form.
I did see some fantastic poetic entries to the last round in the post, you do have some great poets!
It is more I need to take on board feedback and change my poetry style, sometimes I can't resist writing them even though I know I shouldn't. There is a story in there as well for my actual entry, I need to stop trying with the poetry until I can face how much I need to change, I am finding it so hard to move away from my style :)
Hmm. I am wondering why you are trying to resist writing poems, and why you have to move away from your style, @calluna. If you mean you have received great editorial feedback, and you want to use it to improve the quality of your work, that's great. But I hope you aren't trying to be something you aren't!
I have had some great editorial feedback, but it does require a decent change in style not to rhyme or use the alliterative imagery, then again, I do like a challenge, I have a really old poem that I wrote that is like that, so I just need to find that vibe again. I am aimed for more objectively good, and in some ways it is trying to be something I am not, but only by pushing my edges will I ever know where they are :)
Also thank you, I was really down last week and just bleh, so yeah, thank you