Poets - This Way

Poem of Love by blogbucket.org

The fountain of creativity

slows to a trickle

without community.

Poems lay fallow in neglected notebooks.

The pen was capped,

until the blogosphere curtains parted

and a sign indicated

"Poets - This Way".

Up and down the blogroll I galloped,

famished, delighted,

gobbling morsels of wit and wonder

that made me smile,

then sent me back to the barn

to ponder, and put pen to paper

once again.

Tentatively, I offered two or three

and, amazingly, some of you came to read,

and leave encouraging comments.

Whoa!

Instead of sitting in a book, unread,

my words were being absorbed and understood

by new close friends from far away,

who came back the next day

just to see what I might say.

The fountain was replenished.

The poems queue in my brain.

And 'thank you' is not nearly big enough to say

for the gift of writing you all have given me

simply from knowing

that you are reading

on any given day. 

-for the three year celebration of dVerse, a poets pub staffed by poets with big hearts, who speak with encouraging words. And to thank all of my readers, who gift me more than you will ever know, simply by reading, and appreciating, sharing and understanding.