Setting Moon

was to move with the present momentum of the wonderful blogs that you have been putting up... in a competitive form wherein everyone is a winner. The mechanics of which will centre around us writing poems for each of the forms as strict to the format as possible and then moving on to the next... That way we would all have achieved (at least once) to write within the parameters of each form and then move on to the next step, modifying it and/or creating something probably totally different but sourced from that basic format.

As for the seeming lack of comments/responses/critiques... We can only do so much on our own... and many are struggling to up their poetic craft let alone up their critical skills. I foresee it to be a gradual and sometimes slow upward process. It will take a lot of coaching and coaxing, encouragement and bite size chunks. I suggest that partial critiques be encouraged as we all develop in that area so we can begin at the shallow end of the pool and work our way to the deeper end/s. The above-mentioned competition type activity on the different forms of poetry would give us a chance to familiarise ourselves (in action) with the poetic types in a personal way and that would help us in our critical abilities as well. In the end of this seemingly grueling process we all shall (hopefully in practise) turn up as winners.