I hope the coffee is hot and the boss is not. I have a poem for you this morning but please bear with me while I cover a few quickie miscellaneous things that are pending or on my mind.
First, if you missed the blogs over the weekend you ought to scroll back and take a look. FREE HUGS is a feel good story that will definitely brighten your day. The other , REALLY ITS JUST A WAY TO GET OUT OF WRITING A BLOG, was a game....the original version, I understand now, was called the Nancy Drew Game. I modified the questions, removing two and adding a personal Haiku and a positive statement about you. I've seen my version 4 or 5 times since then. I won't play the whole game with you at this point if you missed it, but I will do a personalized Haiku if you leave your name in the blog.
Which leads to the second thing. I am going to compile all the Haiku into a blog, separating them with a little mini-profile for each one. It will include whatever icon you are using at the time, a fantasy avatar (usable if you desire sometime), your personal Haiku and another avatar of the animal I chose for you. Feel free to keep it, post it or toss it. That should be later this week.
Third thing. I am entered in the ninth round of Je Rock's Poegasm, a poetry writing contest. I believe I am competing against 8 other poets. Poems will be posted Saturday at Noon, and in the past they've kept the voting open till noon or 2 on Sunday. The idea is to read all the competitors poems and then vote for which you liked the best (mine) at Je's site. I will be revisiting this a lot this week. I am not real good at soliciting friends and/ readers, and I'm certain some of my fellow competitors have friends / reader lists that are 2 and 3 times what mine is......so I will need your vote if I am to advance to the finals
Fourth thing. Do any of you remember the blog I did with the article about Dick Hoyt and his handicapped son? It was an amazing story and the video was something you NEVER forget. Anyhow, that blog received about 3 times as many viewers as my second most viewed blog. Amy, the owner and editor of thebluedoodle.com asked me to post it as my weekly article ( i do a weekly article and also a poem for thebluedoodle.com). Of course I agreed. I posted a link in my stumbleupon blog. Something amazing happened. The story, as posted in thebluedoodle, 8 weeks ago exploded with unique views. Are you sitting down? For most of the 8 weeks, that article page has been receiving around 10,000 hits a day. TEN THOUSAND EVERY DAY. I estimate that it has now been viewed by around 500,000 people. I'll let that sink in. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND in less than 2 months. Now, I didn't write the article, but to think that I've had a hand in touching the lives of half a million people........well...... Just thinking about it is humbling.
Last thing. If you read my blog and enjoyed something or were touched by something please click on the KUDOS button when you comment. In fact, you can actually ONLY click the kudos button and not write anything (you still have to press submit but the kudos will show up even if there is no actual comment). The KUDOS help in the blog rankings, and the rankings are really the only way that I build new readership....when I manage to slip into the top ten in a category I inevitably add a couple or three readers. Plus, if you don't usually comment, it lets me know that you read that day. If you forget to, or just don't like to....no big deal. I don't take it personally.
Ok....that all lasted way too long. On to the poem....a kinda sad one I'm afraid....written in a different voice, rythm and attitude than you're used to from me. I wasn't stretching....it's just the way it wrote itself. Regardless, I hope you enjoy.
An Honest Mistake
It rained this morning.
I could have sworn
I saw you dancing
in the puddles
water trickling from your hair
like teardrops.
I could have sworn
I heard you laughing
at the thunder
your eyes afire
reflecting the lightning
like mirrors
I thought to join you.
I even looked for our umbrella
but it wasn't where you'd left it
Still, I had to join you.
So I dashed outside
into the rain.
I looked for you beside the puddles
but I didn't see you dancing.
I was puzzled for a moment
Till I remembered that you'd left me
And I remembered you don't love me
anymore
I felt so silly
thinking that I saw you
An honest mistake
I'm sure,
but I stood there beside the puddles
listening for your laughter in the thunder
water trickling from my hair
into my eyes
and down my cheeks
like teardrops.
If that didn't bum you out too much, have a wonderful Monday. Hug somebody. Tell somebody you haven't told in a long time, that you love them. Remember someone fondly. Dream about the beautiful things in your life....still to come.
It rained this morning.
I could have sworn
I saw you dancing
in the puddles
water trickling from your hair
like teardrops.
I could have sworn
I heard you laughing
at the thunder
your eyes afire
reflecting the lightning
like mirrors
I thought to join you.
I even looked for our umbrella
but it wasn't where you'd left it
Still, I had to join you.
So I dashed outside
into the rain.
I looked for you beside the puddles
but I didn't see you dancing.
I was puzzled for a moment
Till I remembered that you'd left me
And I remembered you don't love me
anymore
I felt so silly
thinking that I saw you
An honest mistake
I'm sure,
but I stood there beside the puddles
listening for your laughter in the thunder
water trickling from my hair
into my eyes
and down my cheeks
like teardrops.
If that didn't bum you out too much, have a wonderful Monday. Hug somebody. Tell somebody you haven't told in a long time, that you love them. Remember someone fondly. Dream about the beautiful things in your life....still to come.
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