Welcome! Yes a great community is growing here. And if anything else it is great motivation to create and share. It can certainly be a source of distraction but also the positivity you gain is great for momentum and focus in its own way. Hope you find a place here :)
Hi Leeann, I noticed you liked one of my Prompt Poems and I wanted to drop in to thank you. Welcome to Substack! I recognised and sympathised with many of your thoughts in this piece, having joined only in January, and yes, it’s a strikingly friendly community of poets. I really like your poem here too. I look forward to reading more!
Thanks for the links to those poems. I’ll explore further when I have more time this evening. I have a chapbook of punctuation poems coming out in a week or so. I’m very excited.
That was such fun what with its shape and lacking its important self. Since we are mutual subscribers, I thought I could save you some time and direct you to a couple of my poems that you might enjoy based on our mutual love of good grammar and trees. They are;
Welcome! Yes a great community is growing here. And if anything else it is great motivation to create and share. It can certainly be a source of distraction but also the positivity you gain is great for momentum and focus in its own way. Hope you find a place here :)
Hi Leeann, I noticed you liked one of my Prompt Poems and I wanted to drop in to thank you. Welcome to Substack! I recognised and sympathised with many of your thoughts in this piece, having joined only in January, and yes, it’s a strikingly friendly community of poets. I really like your poem here too. I look forward to reading more!
Congrats on your first post, LeeAnn! 🎉
And — as a fellow lover of punctuation — I cannot wait to read your semi-colon poem!
So happy to be here with you! And I never knew, all these years, that you loved jazz. Or at least, it escaped me. ❣️
Thanks for the links to those poems. I’ll explore further when I have more time this evening. I have a chapbook of punctuation poems coming out in a week or so. I’m very excited.
Thanks so much! The semicolon should be next!
That was such fun what with its shape and lacking its important self. Since we are mutual subscribers, I thought I could save you some time and direct you to a couple of my poems that you might enjoy based on our mutual love of good grammar and trees. They are;
https://westonpparker.substack.com/p/the-notebook
https://westonpparker.substack.com/p/the-sugar-maple
Perhaps you can direct me to specific poems of yours. I've also written about hemlocks, birches and fig trees because trees are my pals too.