Editing Advice
Poems on the chopping block
Cut and quartered
Trimmed from the bone
The knife comes slashing
Final cuts
Blood and guts
After so much violence
A tasty Filet
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I’m so happy we get to enjoy your “tasty filet” of poetry!😄
Thanks so much for your comment!😊
Yep. Four pages honed to eight lines
Right—who knew how ruthless one must be! Thanks for sharing…
Ann, yes on the chopping block and some never even make it to the plate! Great piece I enjoy your writing it makes me smile.
So true—I just spent a day going back an forth about another poem—and it never made the muster…Thanks for reading this one…😊
Filet mignon!
Merci!
Merci..!