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RE: Is It Time To Appoint An Unofficial Steemit Poetry Critic To Tame The Scourge Of Bad Poetry On Steemit?
P.S. Perhaps I should sell my HONEST poetic reviews at $5 SBD a pop! Ha ha!
P.S. Perhaps I should sell my HONEST poetic reviews at $5 SBD a pop! Ha ha!
You could just review daily say the top 3 trending poems and I mean really analyse them! Some people will vote you up and maybe the need for critique will catch on.
Btw I realised what EVW meant when he wrote the oxymoron, "Happiness is an empty rush hour train"-making a fortune from mediocre poetry should have been impossible so if the rush hour train is seen as allegorical for Steemit, then he is indeed sitting on an empty rush hour train and boy is he happy. It's always rush hour on Steemit and he's smiling, eyes closed while everyone else stands at the station waiting for the conductor to pull the emergency brake. We are the graffiti covered shops- everyone on this platform is selling "graffiti" but to EVW the majority of other poets are merely a blur as he rides past-untouchable.
He even tells us why his poetry is bad, “please spare me from obscurity” lets us know that he is in love with the idea of being a writer for the fame, rather than loving the process of creating something special through writing. As a result, in the outside world he was failing as a writer, "Happiness is an empty rush hour train the pause I prayed for spared me from being life’s prey". He was just coming to accept the idea that his writing is average when Steemit happened and now he knows that he's a writing genius, born to write. He's saved from the illusion of failure, "sweet muse diffuses the illusions, and I return to the conclusion that I spell out the meaning of my existence, one word at a time.
After decoding Rush Hour Train I realise that it is actually half decent because it's his only work that comes from real truth. I say half because, "stains of a crushed cheeto", really? stain? Rather than, "crumbs" or "dust". He clearly picks the first word that pops into his head and lacks either the artistic integrity or skill required to make his poetry actually good and why should he? He's paid handsomely either way.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast and mundane. Do we choose to train more Steemit soldiers via your suggestion, or start poetry clinics for the 0.01% that we can REALLY HELP change??!
P.S. Perhaps $10 SBD per review for serious poets ONLY ;) The top 3 trending poems are usually ALWAYS crap!