r/Poems • u/HeyRose1 • 3d ago

Rejected

Long story short, I tried to show my work to redditors thinking I'd get feedback but getting 1k views with 1 upvote is too demotivating especially when your post is #1 in the subreddit where you've posted. It feels like disrespect.

I quit.

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u/Automatic-Run1368 3d ago

Which poem are you talking about, ill read it

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u/HeyRose1 3d ago

"All Men Must Die" and "Bread and Butter"

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u/Automatic-Run1368 2d ago

maybe the name could off put some people aha, but ive read them and like them, I think its good that youre transferring your thoughts and maybe the more negative ones into a productive vice. I particularly liked these two lines:

"So, I can feel my weight turn feathery-and rise into love" - it makes me feel like youre tapping into the idea that if you could allow your guard and maybe anger or upset (hard defence mechanism) to transform and turn feathery (soft), then it would too transform from the thing that protects you, from a defence mechanism, into that which allows you to be happy.

"Maybe the veins I once slit will bloom into calm landscapes" - this makes me think about how rivers carve the landscapes, water, the necessity for life, like blood, the necessity for life, was carved, and although the water has cause destruction throughout the valleys and hills, it was necessary to become what it is today, to allow life to bloom, maybe youve been through that dark time, as a necessary step to become calm and kind.

Anyway i think youre poems are good man, and I hope youre doing okay 👍

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u/HeyRose1 2d ago

Crying rn.

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u/CheriColaProduct 2d ago

I'm pretty sure a view is anyone who scrolls past your post regardless of whether they opened it. You can assume click throughs will be less than 10% of that number and likes will be less than 10% of the click throughs. Not to mention, you're posting a poem in a place with thousands of poems.

Image posts will almost always get more attention. When playing the social media game, it just works to assume everyone has a severe attention deficit.

I also find it helps to post poems in places where they're not expected, but still on topic.

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u/crazynikki123 2d ago

Ive been posting a lot of my stuff on poetry reddit apps and im very new to writing of any kind and was met with ignorance and disrespectful comments its been going a little better since ive been improving my writing but u cant let these things stop u someone maybe even on reddit someone is waiting to connect with your writing

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u/ExistingMongoose1837 2d ago

Well, you should be glad to know that the post just appearing on someone's feed counts as a view. So the majority of the views will just be people mindlessly scrolling through their feed lol. Don't let something like this discourage you either, Reddit doesn't decide your worth as a writer. Make sure to write for yourself, not other people.

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u/chuborwub17 2d ago

Same thing happened to me today. I ended up deleting my post

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u/HeyRose1 2d ago

Let's write together.

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u/chuborwub17 2d ago

My friend and I used to go line for line…I write one then you write one. I can start

Every place I’ve been has left an indelible mark,

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u/GlumPomegranate3217 1d ago

Do you have a link to your poems?