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Alas, old blog

Alas, old blog, thou dost baffle me Art thou a banjo short a cord An off-key piano, tortured A homeless cat meowing in the dark A shaken not stirred literary libation Advertising the talents of its writers Redundantly raucous rhetoric Echoing down a dusty corridor Gathering the featherless dreams Of forlorn and wingless words

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Tom Woody

Date: 4/5/2025 10:08:00 AM

Over the years I've been an advocate for eliminating the arbitrary rating system (gone), adding a premium contest feature (adopted), adding audio (adopted), reducing poem dumping (adopted, though in name only). All of these changes/revisions were promoted via blogs, despite the angst and fist shaking from a choir that can't quite seem to sing on key, but love to write defamatory poetry about other poets, all the while claiming justification for doing so. Gosh, I feel a new blog coming on ...

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 4/5/2025 5:40:00 PM

Yep, the natives are getting restless.

Tania Kitchin

Date: 4/5/2025 5:27:00 AM

John, a great poem. Blogs on PS these days seem to be a place that has turned the soup sour. There's too much hatred, belittling, name calling and attacking others. It's sad that some just comment on blogs to feed their ego's.

Keith D Trestrail
Date: 4/5/2025 6:05:00 AM

Lol.

Keith D Trestrail

Date: 4/4/2025 5:21:00 PM

Blogs are like people, some wise, some dumb, and some too enamoured with their own self-importance. To paraphrase it’s a bit like that old adage: there are three kinds of bloggers, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what just happened! Present company excluded of course. No, I’m not winking, there is something in my eye.

Lin Lane

Date: 4/4/2025 3:03:00 PM

Wingless words, like some that think issues need fixing but that doesn't fly with most soupers. Often, blogs become a battleground. Gauntlets thrown and it's a war zone. Among adults, opinions should be able to be shared without using pens as swords. Look at the instigators and see the redundancy of their need for attention. Not worth time and effort to be that childish. I'm here to write, not preach to the choir when it doesn't want to sing. I like your train of thought, John.

Jan Allison

Date: 4/4/2025 2:18:00 PM

To be honest John soup is so much sweeter without the conflict some blogs can cause but some folk cant resist posting them lighting the blue touch paper and then acting all innocent when the fireworks explode! hugs jan x

Tom Woody

Date: 4/4/2025 12:11:00 PM

Sigh. Gotta love those old fashioned down to earth devil be danged opinion and angst filled blogs. I'm misting up...