Breaking Poetry News Update !!!


URGENT NEWS  for my 5 regular readers:

I am guilty of taking the easy way out of poetry-blogging.

Yes, lyrical brothers and sisters, I have committed online crimes. I have posted any random video found to be amusing or relevant instead of being TRUE to my VERSE.
BitChutes and YouTubes have been impulsively embedded here at ConnectHook, instead of opening the splendorous portals of Poetry for my loyal readers to enter. I have not self-promoted sufficiently. Instead, I have veered off into culture warring, esthetic/political provocation, and endless agit-prop. Oh sweet muse, long suffering mentor, matrix and moonbeam-milker, FORGIVE ME. Withdraw not the sweet rivulets and gushing springs of your lyric inspiration. Pour out upon my readers, from the crystal pitcher of your pure poetic sources, a life-giving stream of living waters. Cast out the demons of boring modernist free-verse and incoherent identity-politics drivel. Long-suffering muse of mine, restore us one and all back to POETRY the only reason to live and to love, the only antidote to an unfunny clownworld hell-bent on self-destruction. Remember not my poetic sins, oh faithful lover of my soul— be merciful unto me, dear lady of lyrical laughter and light.

SPRAY THEM with poetry oh muse;
MOW them DOWN with the Gatling-gun of your golden graces.

…cause itz ALL about tha POETRY, y’all.

Dopamine Euphoria

O Ye minions of loyal connectees I must share my internet joy with you.
All day my stats languished at 1 (one) view. But after posting the Scandinavian splendor of Lin Berggren’s facial physiognomy, my view count rose—no, ASCENDED to three views.

Glory hallelujah. 

Nothing like a stunning Swedish singer to AMP those stats. 

Yeah, baby. Sverige etc, etc.

Top Ten

HELLO POETRY is a user-friendly and uncluttered website. It is easy to comment and message other poets. It’s a sort of lyrical Facebook without the bells and whistles. They provide a count of how many views a poem gets over time. One never knows if these stats are truthful, or just algorithmic hype, but accepting the bean counters at face value, here are my ten most-read poems since I began posting at the site in 2015. They range, top to bottom (if one believes the stats), from 40K+ views down to 9K+ views.

  John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snow-bound (1865) comes in at number one with 43K views.

Snow – Bound 

Diversity Training

Planet of the Smartphones

Jungle Smile

Betting on the Races: Dark Horse

Cuneiform: Textual Intercourse

A Chicken in Every Pol Pot

Poultry in Motion

Hung on a Psychosociolinguistic Scaffold

Christian Types in Limerick