
Sometimes I put up a post and no one visits.
No ‘likes’.
No ‘comments’.
There is a terrible silence.
I’m like the wallflower at the dance.
The cheese that stands alone.
.I shrink. I shrivel.
I want to run, hide.
I’m the cowardly lion.
I panic.
I take the post down. I ditch it.
You must have noticed..
But once in a while, like my ‘Desecration’ post on Big Blue Mouth,
I leave it.
I stand by it.
I stand up for it.
Damn it all! It’s good, I say
Sometimes I have courage. Sometimes I don’t.
so true! kind of like having a birthday party when you are little and worrying that no one will come –
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hey! that’s a great comparison, Beth 🙂
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Oh yes!! Something all bloggers can relate to!! By the way, you wrote a post recently… the one that starts with a fish in a bowl. I have been unable to like it. It comes up with an error. So it’s not always that your readers are ignoring you. 🙂
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ahh yes, I remember that one. I took it down because it came across as ‘stilted’
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Don’t delete posts ( unless they are unintentionally offensive ) they are
Your diary! You don’t need confirmation when you know it’s good x
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that’s a novel and lovely way of looking at it 🙂 and I won’t !
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Ah, your rapidly disappearing posts have confused me, and left me wondering if I’d imagined them John. I’m glad for the clarification … But I wonder what we all missed because we didn’t have the time to post a considered response you your words …
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to be honest, Carolyn, I don’t think you missed much; most I took down partly because on reflection I didn’t think they were good enough BUT I stood by ‘Desecration’ even though it took quite a while to attract traffic because I FULLY believed in it
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If you believed in it enough when you posted it, don’t let the doubts come and knock you back. You did believe, so stand by you. I’ve wondered why some of your posts appear in the WP reader app but won’t let me like them, only to find they are gone from your site.
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thank you; yes, it’s left a few people wondering, and one disenchanted. I must stop the practice
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Think each post through thoroughly,before you post it, and then stand by what you have done. If you have second thoughts, address them as comments, rather than deleting the original post, perhaps. That can lead to more comments, and that has to be a good thing, as long as any comments there are not spammy rubbish ones.
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thanks Carolyn: wise words: I will heed them 🙂
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Haha, guilty over here as well sometimes!! Love this post. :))
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I felt better once I admitted to it 🙂 it’s the catholic in me 🙂
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Lol!!! Sometimes I think I was supposed to be catholic haha. 😉
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it’s best that you’re not; we’re all a little ‘screwed up’ 🙂
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Yeah I think it’s best as well, though I think we’re all a little screwed up, regardless of religion or not. ;)) 😊
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we are flawed but fascinating creatures, for sure 🙂
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Some of us… e.g., yours truly… may be delinquent in getting to your posts. Life intervenes and rudely distracts us away from our scholarly blog-reading schedules! Dadburn life! When that happens some of us.. I… don’t like or comment right away!
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I agree. There are some days when I don’t see mails and open reader for a week and then I see notifications sitting right there. I read the excerpt, I open the post, but the page is no more…I am saddened at the lost opportunity, but well that’s life!
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don’t worry: I’m somewhat delinquent at the other end — replying to comments that others, like yourself, have made 🙂
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I don’t take off a post because it doesn’t get likes. I assume there is no market for it yet…but there will be…someday when I become JK Rowling! All my pieces will then weigh in gold! 😁
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thanks Colleen; may be my most popular post
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I never take mine down. Alter it, yea 😉 I’d like people to like it, or say something if they don’t like that’s rubbish, but if I posted it, I’m proud of it.
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thanks; I do it less these days but I still do it; must stop 🙂
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How do you even take the damn thing down? …..I’m glad I don’t know.
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it’s easy but you don’t want to know 🙂
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Your right. Ignorable is pure productivity ? 😉
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Instant gratification?!
I thought that was only
an affliction
of the young 🤔
Patience is a virtue
when it comes down
to the great expectations
for you and your poem.
John, you are a wordsmith
of courage renowned 😎👍
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🙂 thanks David; this is one of my posts I am very pleased with 🙂
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