Temper,Temper

Maybe the "collaboration" process helped you see how succesful your poem really is. One good thing is that  we are talking about poetry... but none of this seems really "collaborative" to me. 

For me a collaboration is a work by two or more poets creating an art work and considering how their particular creative gifts would best merge and produce a kind of beauty different from what each would produce individually.  It is not easy and it is different for each set of poets as to how it might work best I think. The reason for doing it in my experience is similar to lovemaking.