Rejection Letter

It is amazing how small minded the poetry magazines can be.

 

 

Dear Sir

We have declined your current submission

And offer some friendly advice

 

Your words lack rhythm

It is unlikely that you will gather many fans

To follow your style of writing

 

Your descriptions were too graphic

Our readers have a sensitive nature and

Might be offended by such raw emotion

 

Your poems need to be left aligned

Centered poems are considered to be

Amateurish

 

We hope that you will try

One of our poetry contests

For a small fee

 

 

Read more about Alex at:

www.Suburbanfiction.com

 

Author's Note

This was a collage of absurd statements from several actual rejection letters.

Reviews

[Poeticpiers]

Editors and readers are so far out of touch it is almost unbelievable.At the moment they seem only to consider free form despite their comments about rhythm and ryhme. Poetry competions on the whole are scams and will publish anything to extract money from hopeful writers Ithink the way ahead is self publishingFor myself I am quite happy with the feedback I get from readers on the net No body grows rich from writing poetry.Having said all that I enjoyed your poem

[Legion]

At least they attempted to tell you something. I got rejected (my poem "A Letter For King George") from a different contest site and they gave me no reason for it. They even state they will give you a critique of it before you send it in. But no critique. Just a rejection and a please send in something else. Oh well.

[Lyra H]

Yeah it's about time someone revealed this...