Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

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 March 27, 2022 at 3:19 AM It is " just annoying"

Gershon Wolf March 23, 2022 at 8:08 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 March 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM You certainly nailed this one! Enjoyed! Now all I need to do is follow your instructions! Aloha!

Hannah Borke March 22, 2022 at 4:01 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 March 22, 2022 at 3:47 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 March 22, 2022 at 2:13 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 March 22, 2022 at 1:54 PM Did you mean to... oh, nevermind, lol!

Kim Rodrigues March 22, 2022 at 1:42 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 :)