Poems People Hate: Xmukkah Edition!

I'm listening to Natalie Goldberg read her classic, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. I love it for the light it sheds on the emotional side of writing. The audiobook version has an off-the-cuff afterword on each chapter, which is amazing. At one point, she reflects on writers who publish books and don't understand when they don't take off. Her advice?

Be patient. Write another book. That's what practice is. You do writing practice, then you practice a book. Book after book after book. Your job is to just shut up and write.

Towards the end, she mentions poems of hers that she loves that got rejected. She imagines accepting a Nobel prize and using the podium in Stockholm to read them with a vengeance.

I imagine we've all got pieces no one seems to get. Sometimes people might actually hate them. Okay, maybe just dislike. Here's mine, just in time for the holidays!

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