Although I occasionally write poetry, I don’t make a fuss about it because I so rarely do it. And because I’m never quite sure if I should call it poetry. My poems don’t rhyme. They don’t have a recognizable meter or structure (and I don’t even know what I mean by that, either). They don’t measure up to the poetry of Luanne Castle or Pamela Beckford. But I write them anyway.
And sometimes I actually submit a poem for publication. On a lark, as it were. As I did with this one poem, When I Said Goodbye. I submitted it to Tipsy Lit, an indie publisher founded by novelist and poet Ericka Clay. To my happy surprise, Ericka accepted my poem and recently published it in Volume 1 of the Tipsy 10, available free on Wattpad.
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Poetry by Pamela 