2022/3/10 #poetry I looked at some other peoples poetry. I don't know what to say. It isn't for me, would be the polite way. Most are about things I have no comment on. Many are completely indecipherable. Some are way too long. That's the way with everything, some are to my taste and others not. Of course with poetry I've found that the good ones aren't as easily caught. It's grinding work, it takes time to make, poetry is hard, make no mistake. Rhyming, too, is complicated, as dialect and pronunciation can often cause breakage. Some authors are lazy or under time pressure, leaving in words that do not meet measure. My biggest complaint, really by far, is when the meaning doesn't show. Authors lay a trail of phrases referring to things that only they know. I wouldn't mind if I could tell before I read a line if I would have wanted to give those words my time.