shells
Hi Sonia and everyone else, I'm still around, I will try and make more of an effort to write, to read and comment, I too miss those absent from The Bay.
2023-05-06

ken d williams
To write to be read
To write on what is
Is our poetbay
To express our selfs
In our so different ways
To write in our FREE WAY
Encouraging others
Some by chance come across us
On our poetbay
Ken D.
2023-05-05

Alan J Ripley
Hi Sona, like you I miss the poet's.
As strange as it sounds,
Maybe a few are no longer around.
Or just out of sight. We're all
Waiting in anticipation to read,
The rhymes that you write.
Regards from one of your many
friends Alan.
2023-05-05

jim
Maybe Instagram, Twitter, facebook & etc. has shifted the preferred method of posting poems, but I wish poetbay could somehow attract new writers, especially woman, as poetbay seems to have become largely a men's site.

Thank you, Sona, for sharing your thoughts.
2023-05-04

Sona, thank you for doing your part to breathe life into our wee cyber-gathering of poets!
2023-05-04

new poets bring a fresh wind
otherwise it's stale
2023-05-04

arquious
With these I can only agree.
Beautifully worded and may the persuasion bring much fruit.
2023-05-04

Liam
Hi Sona, We have not gone away but continue to read the writing of others and, where the mood allows, comment on some.

But like each changing season, the mood of the Bay also differs from one to the next. Perhaps not in such regular rotation. At the moment it seems that we are in the autumnal phase and members have fallen like the leaves and then into a winter of cold silences. Hopefully, like climate change, things will warm up more than expected and we will once more be caught in the bright glow of talents on show.
2023-05-03

Lawrence Beck
I agree. Not many people seem to be coming around lately.
2023-05-03