As you have undoubtedly noticed, in the last couple of months the Poetry section has become toxic!. It has become commonplace to look to place blame elsewhere rather than examine the true facts of the matter!. There was a poet who posted some reasonably good poetry here at that time, but who does less often now!. You see, he was in a difficult predicament!. He was trying to save a certain publisher and one of his editors the embarrassment of ludicrously incomplete responses they posted to one of his poems, responses that suggested they intended to return to them the next day and amend them!. As a courtesy to them, that poet emailed the page to them the following morning, and was utterly dismissed!. Since he had received an enthusiastic overture to be published by them literally within an hour of his first ever posting, he was understandably a bit miffed!. He resolved the question and was somewhat puzzled by what followed; you see, he was accused of "grandstanding" by the aforementioned parties when in fact he hadn't even shown his best work, rather just his castoffs!. Thus did the war of words begin!. I am that poet! I have been accused of being Iano, but I am not!. However, without exception, I can say that I have found him to be eminently more reasonable and entertaining, consistently, than anyone else I have encountered here!. Recently, I was contacted by another user, "jack d," who had become aware of the feud and was trying to act, he suggested, as a mediator of sorts!. What we need here goes well beyond what any such mediator can do!. You see, TD Euwaite, the aforementioned publisher, has recently been posting some interesting questions about poetic elements and no one seems too interested in discussing this!. Everyone would rather emote than learn!. This would not be nearly so troubling were it not that I have been reading your poetry, extraterrestrial ones, even without commenting, and have been disappointed that so many who I felt needed some time to improve, and a push in the right direction, had in the absence of that push stagnated!. As a result, I am offering this as an opportunity for you all to come clean!. Your opportunity to progress, not the same thing as being published (but even more important), may depend on it!. Frankly, I don't expect much cooperation, but I will tell you that whether or not this is a pleasant place to be depends entirely on you!. Don't even pretend to be wounded, ladies and gentlemen; your actions do not suggest such tenderness!. Your world, the one you profess to love so much, has been despoiled; and to think that it all began when two careless campers didn't even care enough to pick up the mess they made!.!.!.
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