07-31-2012, 12:31 PM
All new and unfamiliar makes things difficult for the reader -- our choices must have a touch of the familiar somewhere about them, a handle or a key for the reader to make sense of the piece.
Entirely personal symbols that are "in-jokes" for the writer also make crap poems.
Entirely personal symbols that are "in-jokes" for the writer also make crap poems.
It could be worse
