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Thanks a lot for your insightful comment on my poem. It's not often that one would take some time and give some thought behind the usual emotional response to what one reads. Thanks again!
I think you're right about the transition between the two parts. There was some other stuff I'd written down that I hadn't included, maybe I'll dip into that and get a few more lines of neutral ground to help with the transition.
And thanks for pointing out the 'vain' thing, I thought that was right the first time but I second guessed myself and low and behold... I was wrong. =P
I don't think you "lost your chance to get published." When I figured out what to do with poems after making them, the one option amongst several which looked like too much trouble was publication by book or periodical. When printing wasn't so common six hundred years ago, the early poets of our language normally circulated handwritten copies to friends, and the popular poems got everywhere from hand to hand. Some are still popular.
Shakespeare's scripts were just mss belonging to a theatre company, until long after they were all performed and some publisher decided to profit by their fame.
I have had lots of joy from that handrwritten method. Of course, the updated version of that is what we're doing here. I work several websites, and I believe I get as many real readers as I might via the printing industry - for much less time spent without me head in the clouds!
Our internet readers are also writers - just the sort of people who are going to read us with the right kind of enjoyment and understandings! Also, we get to function as members of an artistic community to whatever extent we wish. And the internet is worldwide and it is not going to get any smaller I guess!! We are in on the ground floor of the biggest thing that ever happened for the good of literary poetry.
Another method of "publication" is performance. It suits some of us. (Not me). An example is this chap I know who is a truck driver - hauls gigantic mining machinery across Australia. He is also a well-known poet in all of the major cities. He is well-known to people who go seeking out poetry in the pubs and bars where poetry readings with musicians are a feature. Some of these poetry-loving boozers are scholars from universities, of course. Others are connected with the arts industry and publishing. My friend performs his poetry publicly whenever he gets a chance AND whenever anybody asks him to, even if you just run across him in the street! He knows averything he ever wrote, in his head, and has practised performing each piece. Recently, after many years of the above activity, people persuaded him to make some video discs, and it turned out that he doesn't have to market them. People write to him all the time, asking to buy, and he sends them.
My experience of publishing in print is that town newspapers get you the most readers, if you can offer them something that celebrates their local region. That is the case in Australia, anyway. But when I sought a spot in a national poetry magazine, there was no hope ... and when I read them, they failed to impress me at all anyway. At that level of official culture, bull[censored] art is the game, and artists are ignoring that game in their millions, nowadays.
Yes, I write "fast" because although I write slow, I do it full-time most weeks. I'm an old age pensioner! My ambition is to be a dead poet, so I am trying to catch up a bit. As far as I can make out, it's frighteningly common for people to be dead without being poets; but it is something I won't miss out on myself if I can help it ...
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