If huge numbers of people are dropping your RSS feed or something like that, screaming “Poems make me vomit!” then maybe it’s a good idea to leave them out of MildlyCreative. Maybe. But if you were doing cooking videos, and every time you cooked with brussels sprouts you got complaints, what would you do? Make a brussels sprouts cooking site and leave your other cooking things on the main site? Quit cooking brussels sprouts? (assuming, in my unbelievable analogy, that you like brussels sprouts and cook them to deliciousness)

You talk to us about creativity as a personal development plan — like Barbara Winter talks about self-employment as a personal development plan — and then share your personal journey. That includes drawing, poetry, guitar, fiction writing, and nonfiction writing.

What I’m saying is, unless there is an unaffordable cost in doing so, don’t fragment who you are and hide part away. Because there IS an unaffordable cost in doing precisely that.

People who flee because of poems aren’t part of your “natural monopoly” and probably aren’t part of your larger tribe. Those who go, “Oh, a poem, I’ll skip that,” but come back for the other things you post, those are your people.