Yes I know this isn't the forum for critiquing poetry as such, but it is supposed to induce comments, isn't it? That's what I did: I have comments about the poem and why I didn't like it (apart from me calling him an ignoramus at the end there was absolutely nothing personal, it was all about the poem) and he proceeed to defend it. No one asked him to. I didn't agree with the defence, so he called me narrowminded, said I lacked creativity and common sense. Is that not close to bashing?

But yes, I AM passionate about writing in general, and I'm too used to be in critiquing environments that I got tempted to do so here. I guess this forum is mainly for sharing.

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