Here is a poem I submitted to a magazine a while ago for an issue that focuses on ecopoetics and the environment. The editor felt that it was not the right fit for the issue but hoped I will not feel deterred from submitting future work. Although I am somewhat disappointed, I am pleased to have received some feedback because I tried to write something to please someone else rather than myself – and it shows!
Our planet is blue
Overcast with sorrow
There may be no tomorrow
For this kaleidoscopic jigsaw
Of continents that see-saws
Through space
Pulled apart
By the human race
Who puzzle
At how to put
Our Humpty Dumpty planet
Together again
© Kim M. Russell, 2015
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writing in north norfolk 
Did the editor give you any example of what he would consider a fit for the magazine?
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No, he didn’t, Somali. I guess I’ll have to look out for the publication to see what they were looking for. I have another sixteen responses to submissions to wait for and hope that something positive comes from one of them.
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Yes Kim I think it might be a good idea to look out for some publications and see the kind of writing they publish. Wish you the very best with your submissions.
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Thank you, Somali.
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