I wanted to submit at least once more before the end of month. What to do when no new ideas spring to mind? Revise old ones.
I find rejected poems easier to refurbish than rejected stories. In my experience, a poem fails when it doesn't address what I want to say as powerfully as possible. Failed poems leave readers confused about what I mean. Kind-of-getting my point isn't good enough. You have to feel the impact as sharply as the speaker does.
Lately forms or themes have helped me bring these emotions into focus. Today I revised a poem originally aimed for SFF ezine Raven Electrick into a rhyming poem for Richard Geyer's Contemporary Rhyme.
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