Good evening

[billycasper]

hello
i have just signed up having "lurked" for some time I wanted to improve my understanding and writing of poetry and you seem like a friendly bunch.
i have read the rules and will have a look around this expanse of imagination for something to comment on. (Although i am a complete beginner and that feels a little odd)
regards
bc

[Nash]

Hello Billy,

Welcome to the site. I'm quite new here too and looking forward to seeing your work.

Great name by the way, from one of my favourite books!

[brianedwards]

Welcome Billy. Just get stuck in and enjoy.

B.

[paisley]

Hi.
Welcome.
Many of us feel we are still beginners and giving a critique is a challenge when you don't know the jargon or forms or classics or.....
Feel comfortable that you are in a boat with many other uncomfortable struggling, critiquing poets.

Paisley

[BenJohnson]

Welcome Billy as you say it is a pretty friendly bunch here, don't worry too much about your first comments a simple 'I read this and enjoyed it' or a 'it didn't work for me' is as good a start as any. If you feel able to expand more on why a poem did or didn't grab then great, but the overall impression can be enough to tell the writer if the poem is working or not.

[billycasper]

thank you for the comments. . i will go and look

[Travis]

Welcome aboard.

[nar]

Hey, billycasper.

As paisley and Ben said, don't worry about providing crits. Just say what the poems make you feel. When in doubt, what I tend to do is give a good/bad/good sandwich .

This is a fun and supportive place, esp in Beg forum. Dive on in, and you'll feel comfy in no time. This is not place for rights or wrongs, it's a place to share and learn.

Grab your consumable-of-choice (beer, wine, chocolate or kebab) and dip a toe or ten.

Laters,

- Neil.

[billycasper]

thank you for that, i shall endevour to get my feet wet.
regards