This morning I have been following links from fox’s page over at Chasing Shadows Again. Yes, I am incredibly lazy and having someone else do all of the hard work of finding good sites to visit! Fox wrote of the Poets Who Blog site and the latest post there is about a carnival they’re having. To be a part of it, you must send a link to your personal favourite poem on your blog and WriterWoman will list these links on her site on the 26th of May. The deadline for submissions is midnight of the 25th. It’s a wonderful way to gain readers for your poetry. Here are the details on entering.
The debate I am now having with myself is whether or not to submit a poem link and, if yes, which one. Given that I’m not writing anymore, it seems somewhat fraudulent to be asking anyone to come and read my poetry. My reason for even considering it is that I HAVE to do something to inspire myself. I realise nobody else is going to be able to prop up my ever-waning self-esteem but I’m not going to deny that it helps to think that SOMEBODY out there believes I can write. It’s a belief I no longer hold… never really did to begin with but now, definitely don’t! (Writing that, I just successfully talked myself OUT of submitting a link 
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So, to every poet out there, Poets Who Blog are offering a shop window in which to show your wares 
Go to it! I know I, for one, will be checking back there on the 26th to follow all of the promised links back to their treasures.
(Which reminds me, if you’re anything like as lazy as I am, fox really does host a treasure trove of wonderful, interesting links… I won’t even mention the pirate underwear! )
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Given the comment I just left you, I think we just started our very own mutual admiration society!
May I put my vote in for your Muse poem? In my efforts to catch up on all of your posts, I just read this poem and it is perfect; absolutely, incredibly perfect! I love it!
Also, your letter to the children you might have had counts as poetry and it takes equal first place for consideration here, methinks!
Actually, you mentioned something I’ve been meaning to ask you. How is it you stumbled across my blog in the first place? I’m very, very happy you did, in case I haven’t made that obvious… but I never knew how you got here
1. You should submit a link – you, totally, totally should! Your poetry is incredible (I promise that your poems are the precise reason we ever got to meet. I read At the end of the Esplanade and after staring, rereading, sending the link to Ravyn, and staring some more, I read more of your poems and immediately decided I wanted to know you. When you said you’d come out to the coffeeshop if I was hosting a poetry reading, it was sealed. I absolutely, positively wanted more of you in my life. In a total not stalkery way. Um. Really.)
2. On this topic, I’m trying to pick which of my poems to link to. Help!
3. That does it! I’m so inspired to do a thing now. *giggles*
Missed having you around!
Ciao.
Well then, I have Mr. Tag Surfer to thank for your presence here
So I should write to the administrators, hmm?
I don’t handle adoration well at all…. but I think I could learn to like it
You, me, and Ravyn are sort of like an incestuous little clique of adoration, I have noted. But that’s okay. I’m surprizingly good with adoration.
There is that…tag surfer option, which linked me to At the end of the Esplanade. And there you have it.