Mr Obvious,
One thing I have learned in over 30 years of writing poetry and reading poetry is that you end up realizing it still amounts to art and art being subjective. I can't criticize anything. I can only say I like an individual poem, or not. I have seen lots of times in the poetry group long ago, that I belonged to, that there were poems I liked that others did not like, and that went in all directions.
Just be you and do you. Your words will connect with some and not others. I will say this though, I am no fan of stuffy technocrats. It isn't that their poems are bad, but more along the lines they get judgmental. I would never claim to be myself, the best poet in the world, far from it. But I have written almost 1,000, and while many I look back at and say "What was I thinking" there are also many I will defend tooth and nail.
Point is if you like writing, when you just do it, it shows and when you are simply yourself, you don't get everyone liking a certain poem, but you can strike a cord with others.
One thing I have learned in over 30 years of writing poetry and reading poetry is that you end up realizing it still amounts to art and art being subjective. I can't criticize anything. I can only say I like an individual poem, or not. I have seen lots of times in the poetry group long ago, that I belonged to, that there were poems I liked that others did not like, and that went in all directions.
Just be you and do you. Your words will connect with some and not others. I will say this though, I am no fan of stuffy technocrats. It isn't that their poems are bad, but more along the lines they get judgmental. I would never claim to be myself, the best poet in the world, far from it. But I have written almost 1,000, and while many I look back at and say "What was I thinking" there are also many I will defend tooth and nail.
Point is if you like writing, when you just do it, it shows and when you are simply yourself, you don't get everyone liking a certain poem, but you can strike a cord with others.
