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RE: Please Don't. A Poem. Day 21. Steemit Poetry School 100 Days of Poetry.

in #poetry7 years ago

@girlbeforemirror,

This is your Best Poem!

Ideas, ideals and insights ... beautiful contrasts!

Is it cheating to edit?

You're lucky I don't know where you live. If you haven't edited in 10 times (at a bare minimum) then you shouldn't be hitting "Post."

Editing is so important that I require being in a different frame-of-mind (than that in which I wrote the poem) to do it.

Great poem.

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It was the easiest write. I think because I referenced my own perspective. When I try to create something fictional or try to write from another perspective rather than broadcast my emotions, I get completely stuck.
I then attempt to compensate by hitting the thesaurus, and all I have is a few meaningless conceited sentences.
That is what happened with this, I ditched the piece I had, then just typed this into my phone while my family watched TV, and hit post.