The Trees are Burning ~ re discussion of Cumbria Killings

[addy]

This poem to me was like an opened floodgate. You wanted to say so many things, and so much emotion poured out.

I like it, but I think a lot can still be done to edit and shorten it. Right now parts of it are like prose or a litany... I appreciate the passion behind it, but in poetry (as with any writing) it also helps to go back to the piece and look at it with a tempered mind and a tempered heart. If you can distill this poem more, it would make it doubly better imo