It has been twelve years and this incident is still fresh in my mind. Who would have thought back then that writing poems could earn you money?
All that I could see everyone around say was that writing poems is a leisurely activity, it is simply a waste of time, what could writing poems give someone? And then one morning, while browsing online spaces, where I could submit poems for the sake of sharing it with everyone, I found the Three Line Poetry website.
Expressing a complete poem only in three lines? Exactly! I experienced the same surprise which you may be going through right now. Not being a student of formal literature studies, these forms of poetry (including haiku, tercets, quartets, sonnets and others) were completely new and exciting for me.
‘Was this a fake website? Why is there no entry fee? Why would someone pay if my poems are accepted for publishing?’ I was in two minds whether or not to submit. Most of the online literature journals do not pay even today.
What’s the worst that could happen? Rejection. I managed to compose a couple of three-line poems and submitted them. I will definitely share the unpublished three-line poems in a separate post. Much to my surprise, two poems were accepted and I was forced to create a Paypal account.
If you write poems and would like to submit in Three Line Poetry, visit this page: https://threelinepoetry.com/
You can read my published three-line poems online at no cost or buy a paperback copy (if you stay in the US).
Read it online: https://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=15&issue=15
Buy a paperback copy: https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/three-line-poetry-c-2/three-line-poetry-issue-15-p-39.html
To read more about my latest published work, follow this link: https://bit.ly/AuthorTLN
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