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Laura J. Wellner's avatar

I found this one highly amusing, very enjoyable. I always love your poetry. I don't understand why it wouldn't be selected. Not their cup of tea, I suppose... They might not like the word "murder" in the title. It might be considered a "trigger warning" kind of word. I've pretty much stopped the whole submission ordeal (for poetry or fiction) unless it's something I'm compelled to do. Every rejection letter made me feel like a literary stray cat looking for a home. It's sort of sad, but yet, I don't mind. It's a relief to not add another layer to what I'm doing. The current poe-umm that I'm working on has 'trigger warning' in it because I'm thinking about words that are considered triggering, but then, I follow it with a "Tigger" warning, which would be adorable being pounced on by Pooh's friend Tigger. I love playing with words, just like you do. I'm very excited about writing this poe-umm, it's one of my weird, random, ramblings, I'm just having fun following my bliss. I figure I'll get validation when I'm too old to care. ;)

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Tamsin's avatar

Hmm, that’s interesting about the title. Maybe Murder is a trigger word.

I seem compelled to submit every few weeks - no idea why my brain works that way. I’ve had 12 accepted so far, and a couple of lovely encouraging rejections and I suppose the dopamine hit is enough.

Tigger is my favourite. Bouncy, pouncy, fun, fun, FUN. I look forward to reading it.

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Penn's avatar

I love this - it made me smile and delighted me! The ‘conceit’ and the imagery are brilliant! I don’t know what they’re thinking! Thank-you for sharing 🙂 Penn x

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Tamsin's avatar

Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

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Lisa Andradez's avatar

I adore this!! Great work, and their rejection of only means we get to read it so it's a win for me!! 😜

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Tamsin's avatar

Exactly, their loss our gain.

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Valerie Paul's avatar

This is awesome!

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Tamsin's avatar

Thank you, I think so too, so their loss and our gain.

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Tamsin's avatar

Dear person who wrote a long comment about this poem, posted and then deleted it (Substack sent me an email of it anyway). There are no spelling mistakes and the grammar is fine (if a little more subjective): I rather love an Oxford comma. Editors are very good at sorting out that sort of thing anyway - especially as they get to know I’m dyslexic. So no, it won’t have been rejected purely on spelling and grammar grounds. Thank you for your thoughts.

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