My Orange Parker Pen
I have just had another poem accepted, a haiku. It is 8 words long and scarcely seems long enough to be a poem but i is, and you wouldn’t believe how hard they are to write. I don’t normally have haiku accepted, and I sometimes have them mentioned as the reason for rejecting haibun, so I am quite pleased with this. Perhaps I’m starting to get the hang of this, though I’ve thought that before and been wrong.
A little later, I had a rejection. My poetry does not “fit the shape of the issue”. All sorts of replies spring to mind. I could offer to write round poems perhaps . . .
In the end, I won’t. There’s no real etiquette for thanking someone for turning down your poetry for years on end that doesn’t risk being seen as sarcastic. Anyway, rejection rarely bothers me these days and in this case I sent my submissions expecting a rejection so it’s attracting my attention only because I need something to write about. Submitting to this particular periodical is actually more like an inoculation than a submission: I do it to ensure I keep my level of immunity topped up.
I have a submission window closing on the 15th, which is quite soon. It’s for haiku and I am going to polish up the rejects from this month and send them out again. Obviously, looking at them a second time will reveal a few with faults, but over half, maybe with the odd tweak, will be going out again. As I’ve said before, it’s surprising how many make it after two or three attempts.
Julia went to Nottingham by train earlier this week and passed this sign on he way. It commemorates Mallard’s world speed record.
I soled the rejection problem years ago. I stopped submitting.
An excellent solution to the rejection problem, but a touch terminal to hopes of publication. 🙂
Congrats, congrats! That is one fast mallard. 😉
To me it actually looks fast even when it isn’t moving.
Congratulations on the haiku acceptance!
You could extend round poems to one on close hexagonal packing. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres#FCC_and_HCP_lattices
It started off as a fascinating article, but quickly became bewildering. How do they pack so much complication into a subject like stacking?
Such things are the realm of mathematicians. 🙂
No wonder they are never portrayed as normal on TV. 🙂
🙂
Don’t ever duck out of submissions.
After a review of the possibilities of duck-based puns I decided it was just too mall ‘ard. It’s the best I could do, though I admit it’s not i-teal. 🙂
I do hope you didn’t waste to much time on that eggsercise
OK, that’s un-oeuf puns. Time for some work! 🙂