I too have read the "hints" of some of our poets leaning toward leaving Poetrysoup. I would hope that all would stay (and many who have already left would return). Poetrysoup will be a sadder place without them.
STOP RIGHT THERE!!! NOT SO FAST…. Just where do you think you are going??!! Do you think you can just walk away!! You have work to do. Tighten up that Sonnet Tidy up those rhymes Feel the drumbeat of that meter …the juxtaposed delight ….of sitting back and knowing …..you finally got it……WRITE. WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE!!! You know you love it. The torture of the keyboard words tumbling from the pen the beginning the middle the all elusive end DON’T GIVE ME THAT OLD SONG AND DANCE!! Remember those first crumpled unfinished discarded recovered reworked polished failures DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!!! Have you forgotten that first poem?? The one you read to your dog? in a whispered voice as his tail wagged and your voice brushed his coat with poetry. YOU ARE A POET!! Your words, like butterfly wings, gently alter the currents of the universe. John G. Lawless ©7/15/2017
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