Question for the staff, on posting Options

[Guest_Rosemerta_*]

Hi all!

First of all, I was thrilled when I stumbled into Shogun's Psalms. Is this something new or have I just been missing it all along? Either way, it is nice to see a home for the shorter works.

However, I do have a question concerning this. Some time ago I wrote a collection (two actually) of 5 Senryu poems that are meant to be read together. I didn't know if they could be posted here or should they go elsewhere? I suppose they could be posted seperately but I would rather leave them together.

Thanks in advance for your response!

~~Jackie

[JustDaniel]

Please allow me to piggy-back on Jackie's question. I have another quetion re this forum. I am quite sure I know the answer, but wanted to help avoid any new member's possible confusion.

In the forum's instruction, this phrase: one poem per topic could be taken a number of ways, and I can just see someone coming into this forum and posting, say 8 replies and then posting

a tanka
a septolet
a lanturne
a haiku

thinking that that would constitute four topics, allowed by the 8 replies, realizing that s/he'd have to wait two days to post another on any of those topics.

I'm pretty certain you didn't mean it that way, but I almost took it that way myself; it was only further caution regarding doing so that helped me to see that it was not your intent.

poLitely offering a suggestion re possible re-wording, Daniel

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Jackie.

We opened this forum on May 26th, so it is very new.

ANY topic posted here cannot exceed 7 lines total, so unfortunately, you'd have to post your Senryu collection in Herme's Homilies if you don't wish to split it up into individual poems. We posted a rule in the forum description to post one poem per topic. If the form calls for 3 lines (as Senryu does), then the new topic must contain only 3 lines.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Lori

Hi all!

First of all, I was thrilled when I stumbled into Shogun's Psalms. Is this something new or have I just been missing it all along? Either way, it is nice to see a home for the shorter works.

However, I do have a question concerning this. Some time ago I wrote a collection (two actually) of 5 Senryu poems that are meant to be read together. I didn't know if they could be posted here or should they go elsewhere? I suppose they could be posted seperately but I would rather leave them together.

Thanks in advance for your response!

~~Jackie

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi Daniel.

As mentioned in the forum description, members may only post ONE poem here every other day provided they also give the required 2 crits to other members' works. It's exactly the SAME posting rule as Herme's, Seren's and Plato's. It should be clear as there is NO variation in this new forum. A person could in theory very well post 8 replies, BUT they can only post ONE poem, then wait 2 days, then another and wait 2 mroe days and so on. There should be NO variation to the rules just because this forum is for shorter works. It's exactly the same. Member X posts a haiku today followed by 2 replies. They cannot post another new topic for 2 days, if they did, we would simply lock it/them until the posting rule has been satisfied.

ONE poem per topic simply means do not post 6 senryu in your post and label it as 'one poem'. Whatever form is posted here cannot exceed 7 lines and must be posted as the form's parameters require, so a haiku of 3 lines, a cinquain of 5 - etc... no mirror cinquains or haiku collections etc... at this time can be worked into one topic...

Thank you!
Lori

Please allow me to piggy-back on Jackie's question. I have another quetion re this forum. I am quite sure I know the answer, but wanted to help avoid any new member's possible confusion.

In the forum's instruction, this phrase: one poem per topic could be taken a number of ways, and I can just see someone coming into this forum and posting, say 8 replies and then posting

a tanka
a septolet
a lanturne
a haiku

thinking that that would constitute four topics, allowed by the 8 replies, realizing that s/he'd have to wait two days to post another on any of those topics.

I'm pretty certain you didn't mean it that way, but I almost took it that way myself; it was only further caution regarding doing so that helped me to see that it was not your intent.

poLitely offering a suggestion re possible re-wording, Daniel