As It Goes

This poetry blog receives very few visitors. One place links to this blog, Salty Pumpkin Studio.

In all the years posting poetry online, here and my Hasopen Road Poetry (10 years plus), blog on Wordpress, the visitor counts have not been more than a very few, if any, in a week. 

Without active promotion, activity on poetry websites and blogs or a well known person posting a comment or about the poems online, I believe, poetry blogs like mine will never gain much attention.

It is not because of bad poetry*. Folks apparently aren’t into poets that don’t promote their poetry well enough to be noticed. .

Is it worth it to continue posting my poems?

Yes because one person reading what I write is good enough for me..

Thank you for visiting

*Not all my poems are bad. (although some do make me cringe.)

Unsettled

 

when the hour calls out with questions,

reply that you don't have answers

say instead, leave me alone

or go away with your inquiries

tell the hour your brain is resting

up for a surge of genius

unlike any you've ever expected

then ask yourself

what you are doing

in such a way that 

all reasonable excuses, 

melt into air rising

then make a frappe

foamy enough

that milk bubbles

will decorate

your upper lip

M.Flannery

November 2024

Dance Instead

 

A fantasy rapidly

falls on my mind 

as fresh leaves

out of books

crinkling read,

recycle, reuse.

What for has an ocean

to fill. I have

a creativity surge

to empty.

Flow by as stardust

that must nap

on shoulders strong

and unmoving.

Don't ask

me why I'm here.

The answer will reveal

your clever secrets. 

We can dance instead.

M, Flannery

August 2024