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Unsolicited

I like my poem the way it is But thanks for your suggestion. I do not plan to use it but It brings to mind a question – Is unsolicited advice A help or just annoying? Perhaps it’s good if someone’s spirits Are in need of buoying. Or in a case I read about, An expert made a sighting Of a mole on someone’s neck Where cancer cells required fighting. In certain cases, butting in May help a situation And those on the receiving end May feel appreciation… But in a poem, a typo’s A correction that it's needing Yet all advice beyond that Many poets won’t be heeding.

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 3/27/2022 3:19:00 AM

It is " just annoying"

Gershon Wolf

Date: 3/23/2022 8:08:00 PM

Oh, so true!!! Too often there's a hidden agenda somewhere when advice is given... And as with all 'free advice:' You get what you pay for! Amen, Ilene! :) gw

Rico Leffanta

Date: 3/23/2022 11:28:00 AM

You certainly nailed this one! Enjoyed! Now all I need to do is follow your instructions! Aloha!

Hannah Borke

Date: 3/22/2022 4:01:00 PM

Something’s wrong with the grammar, teacher. The typo is the error. Have you been testing us to see if someone will notice?

Jan Allison

Date: 3/22/2022 3:47:00 PM

Good one Ilene, I will point out a typo and try and help with a limerick but that's about as far as I go, I recall being advised to pull a poem from a contest and use another I'd written -I placed low and the sponsor mailed and said they had preferred my original! A lesson learned quickly then and I follow my gut instinct now:-) hugs Jan xx

Leo Larry Amadore

Date: 3/22/2022 2:13:00 PM

I usually try to restrain any urges i may have toward suggesting corrections and to limit them to comments about "unintentional" spelling and punctuation errors, but many times even those (constructive?) comments result in hurt "feelings" and sometimes in barbed comments. So now (mostly) I try to limit myself by NOT commenting about such matters, and instead by offering only congratulatory comments (or none at all.)

Jeff Kyser

Date: 3/22/2022 1:54:00 PM

Did you mean to... oh, nevermind, lol!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 3/22/2022 1:42:00 PM

I won’t even ask my husband’s advice…not even and especially for a title. It has to be mine. The basics of poetry are helpful, the form, format (maybe), the study of poets and poetry. Do we really write a poem if someone else fills in the parts except of course with collaboration. Like your poem :)