Nov '25 • Community Share
⭐ How to Give Feedback in This Community
A gentle guide for reflection, not critique.
In Community Share, we treat feedback as a mirror—not a red pen.
This community is built on care, curiosity, and creative courage, so here’s how we hold each other’s work with intention.
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💛 Before Anything Else: Consent Matters
Not everyone wants feedback every time they share.
When you post your writing, please use one of these tags:
• [Reflection Only] — no feedback, just space to be witnessed
• [Gentle Feedback Welcome] — light reflections only
• [Open to Feedback] — questions + deeper reflections allowed
And when responding to someone else?
Always check their tag first.
Never assume.
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✨ Our Community Feedback Principles
1. Celebrate the Spark
Start by naming what moved you.
What line echoed? What image stayed with you?
Example:
“This line felt like stepping into a storm—soft but electric.”
2. Ask, Don’t Assume
We use questions instead of directives.
Example:
“I’m wondering what would happen if you let this image stand alone?”
3. Speak to Emotion, Not Technique
Your job isn’t to “fix” a poem.
It’s to reflect what it made you feel.
4. No Editing Someone’s Voice
We’re not rewriting people’s work here.
We’re witnessing it.
5. Response Over Revision
Tell them what resonated, what you pictured, what stayed with you.
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📝 How I Give Feedback (as your facilitator)
If you request feedback directly, I’ll offer:
• reflections on metaphor usage
• emotional resonance
• your strongest images
• gentle questions to deepen the work
No grammar critiques.
No rewriting your poem.
Just clarity, compassion, and craft awareness.
You may also submit work privately for light feedback or for consideration in our Featured Poem of the Week.
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🌿 This Community Is Built on Care
You never need to share.
You never need to edit.
Being witnessed is enough.
Your voice is welcome here—raw, tender, unpolished, powerful.
If we treat each other’s writing with the same tenderness we wish for our own, this space will thrive.
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⭐ How to Give Feedback in This Community
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