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National Poetry Month or National Earth Month: Which Is It For Me?
It’s sometimes hard to fit into social media poetry groups. I know I’m on the fringe and it makes it hard to continue.
I’ve reached a frustrating point with poetry and poetry groups again. This seems like a circular problem I have. The way I deal with it is to back away from sharing poetry or poem-related posts for a while in poetry groups.
When you belong to groups on social media, there is always a chance you won’t fit in. I’ve found this to be true for me.
One of the differences for me with my Medium.com posts is that I comment on others, and they comment back on mine. My comments are sincere and not obligatory. But I feel part of the community. I feel that I’m more on the fringe of other groups on different platforms.
I’m not a true poet — I like to write and I like poetry, but even though this month has been National Poetry Month, I haven’t written it each day. But I did promote the craft for our state group by participating in a poetry reading and I wrote a poem on a prompt provided by this group. Neither action garnered much support from online poetry groups.
