Read my POEM and answer.?

Question

Oh my auntie’s little boy
He sucked his thumb all day
My aunt was very very sad
She took a holiday.

She tied a wooly spiky thread
Around the baby’s thumb
The baby ate the spiky thread
And called her very dumb.

She bribed him with a lollipop
And bought a teddy bear
The baby happy with his thumb
He did not even care.

Then she took him to a fair
She gave him bubble gum
The baby stuck it on her hair
And only sucked his thumb.

Mad my aunt with gum in hair
And a baby that called her dumb
Took the baby’s hand in mouth
And ate the baby’s thumb.

These are the kinda poems that i write and now i want to publish them. i have no idea about the whole process and i am still learning.i tried the writers digest but wasnt a big help. ANY SUGGESTIONs or websites that cud help me??

Answer 1

Sorry i don't like your poem.!!!

Answer 2

Presumably these poems, if they are all in a similar vein, are aimed at the children's market. It is my opinion that before you attempt to publish you must master your craft better. Always remember to punctuate your verse and at least do a syllable count for each line. This will help to get the metre (flow) right. The first and fourth stanzas are slightly out of metre but the final stanza has 'fallen apart'.
Could I recommend a book by Stephen Fry called 'The Ode less travelled' an excellent introduction to verse writing for beginners.
For publication you could try visiting the 'Poetry Society' or 'Poetry .com' websites.

Answer 3

The rhyme and metre is good. Some of it doesn't really make sense though and has obviously only been put in to fit the rhythm (Mad my aunt with gum in hair).
Quite like the wooly spiky thread bit but that stanza lets itself down eith the last line.

Answer 4

i suggest that you put your poems in a certain order..the order that you would want them to appear in a book. I like nothing more than opening a book to a precise, funny or adventurous poem. Also, i think it is wise that when you have gathered all of your poems and put them in a little folder or something, that you get somebody to read them and get their opinion.
i cant give you any particular websites, but look up on google for book publishers. usually they will ask you to send them a copy of the thing you want published and they will either accept of decline it. But dont give up if the first publishers you try decline it, keep sending the book to lots of different publishers over and over again. William Golding (author of Lord of the Flies) tried for over ten years to get his novel published..but he was insistent. Oh yeah..senda couple of your poems in to magazines and they might publish them...to get the interest of a wider range of the public.
hope i helped a bit!
p.s...i really love the poem!!!!!

Answer 5

Ceci n'est pas de la poésie car comme l'a dit Antonin Artaud, on commence tout juste à entrevoir ce que pourrait être la poésie. Il n'y a que trois vrais poètes, Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman et Allen Ginsberg.

Answer 6

Be prepared for disappointment.
Publishers aren't falling over themselves to sign new poets.
Try entering poetry competitions, entering them for magazines etc.
Trying to get a first volume published is almost as difiicult as trying to guess six little lottery numbers, everyone thinks they can do it but...
Write, write and write again. Keep practising. Be very critical of what you do. Ask other people's opinions. But, sadly, ultimately be prepared for disappointment.

Answer 7

Well I liked it up to the end. A bit too violent for me.

You can self publish. Also Amazon has a deal. Check it out. You find a publisher that does publish on demand and Amazon will sell them for you and give you a cut. But frankly you need to lighten this up a bit or only one or two very sick people will buy it.

Good luck.

Answer 8

it reminded me of some old German poems for children from 1920s. there is one about a little boy who sucks his thumb - and gets it chopped of by some monstrous man with big scissors. I cant recall the poets name. nothing wrong in having horror in poetry.

Answer 9

u could try a book called: The writer's and artist's yearbook. It has names of publishers, clubs + compititions

Answer 10

your poem was ok, but you'll find that even the amateurs standards are very high. go to your local library, visit the poetry section and read, read, read. your work will get better. you can then enter some compys

Answer 11

i liked most of your poem, what age group would you be writing for though? The last verse was a little bit 'silence of the lambs' if your know what i mean.