Dreaming High

A Favour to Ask: Attracting Poets & Writers to WordPress Campaign

1 – Sign in to your LinkedIn

2 – Go to the link below

3 – Share on social sharing icons, just under the title.

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having or had a good weekend. Could you please share this following post on social media, especially if you have a writer’s LinkedIn profile or reblog it here:

I’m trying to drum up support for the WordPress medium to attract more writers & poets to our community,

“Why I Recommend WordPress to other Writers”

The post can be found here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-recommend-wordpress-other-writers-wuji-shiu?trk=prof-pos

Poets and writers need a community that is friendly and easy to create beauty and art, and network,

WordPress is the best I have found of late, do you agree? What are some others you enjoy?

Thanks.

LinkedIn Group for Writers & Poets on WordPress – Please join

Howdy All,

Here on WordPress, we span continents and share a passion for writing, let’s do more to keep in touch,

Link to Join:

WordPress Linkedin Group

If you don’t have a LinkedIn profile or don’t want to join as your work persona, create an artist profile portfolio on LinkedIn and join.

Please invite your friends on WordPress and help make this group fun.

If you have no discussions to make or contribute to, you can always post your blog posts on the promotions section, to increase traffic to your blog and posts.

Thanks,

We need content contributors, social moderators and poets who want more comments on their poems. Lastly please share this post on wordpress so it reaches more poets & writers.

Survey Top Poets Results

Congrats to all poets and thanks to the 25 or so people who voted.

Sleep would be nice….

Sleepless in Montreal

Midway upon the journey
Of our lives, I found that
I could fall in love with a poetess
With the mere sight of her words

Korean-American Sappho
Though in great times of self-doubt
I must recall that words befriended me
In an empathy human beings

Declined, I made my way
To emotions and experiences
That felt the universe, thus I too
Because a minor poet, full

Of the surprise with the way of life
That agreed with me, rather
Like divinity on the shelf
Always within reach

The sound of a new poem
In my mouth being born
It was the ode to spiritual hunger
I never knew, the thrill of always

Finding something around the corner
The delight to echo the sleep
Of sad years that broke free
Your cheeks of Seattle still crisp

Like the aroma of apples
I cannot reach, that’s the breeze
Whispering of your foreign name
I am sick in my own, that I require

To translate you into a muse
Squeeze you dry with poetic embraces
That can only find new sentences
For the fragrance of your need.

About Solitude and Infatuation

Alone Quotes | Forward this Picture

Being alone with Eun Ji

I’m five down dead in red

I bend where the sun hits

I shift to gain access

To the bursting shadows

Voyeuristic to your ghosts

The rains is like a lullaby

But the blood of a writer

Eun Ji, I’m a secret manifestation

 

Of your psyche, both silent

And wounded in existence

Both everything and nothing

For your eternity of being

And there is a vague red trail

Leading from my life to yours

It’s like an avalanche of nostalgia

When you shudder I feel light-headed

In this way, I have swallowed

The memories of someone else

And I would gladly color your body

But after all those dreams of dying

We learned to love dying

In each other’s arms, disguised

Like lonely vehicles to murder the world

Our solitude didn’t make us crazy

It just reminded us who we were

And for that I am lonely:

Loneliness is not being alone

It’s to love another’s soul

To no avail, but I have time

Time to tangle myself into

The spiral veins of your inner voice

Maybe the only voice

That can reach me now

And I write about you because

I’m scared of writing, however

I’m more scared of not writing

Eun ji, in my mind you have become a poem

But I cannot stop writing or speaking

Because you amplify the my inner Asian-ness

And the zero-point of all poetic intent in me.

WordPress Contest

So tonight I decided to judge the first edition, March 1st, 2015.

http://www.writerscafe.org/contests/Seshat-Nibada%27s-Wordpress-Challenge/51135/

So far I’ve gotten to the finalists which are here:

So with these 14 “finalists”, the task is to bring it to 10 and then rank them, so begins the WordPress ranking:

So here is where we ended up:

1st place goes to:

Link: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/almond123/1491637/

2nd place goes to:

Link: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/BbGirl/1339629/

3rd place goes to Jason Morales:

Link: http://www.writerscafe.org/Jason_Morales

History:
1. 1st Event: 37 entries

WORDPRESS Rankings:

Check out the winners:

1. 36 – Almond: http://www.writerscafe.org/almond123
Wordpress: https://poeticlogik.wordpress.com/

2. 35 – Devon: http://www.writerscafe.org/BbGirl
Additional link: http://daughterofthebeekeeper.tumblr.com/

3. 34 – Jason Morales (“J”): http://www.writerscafe.org/Jason_Morales

4. 33 – Ellie (the writer): http://www.writerscafe.org/Elliewriter
Wordpress: http://worldruler007.wordpress.com/

5. 32 – Johnny: http://www.writerscafe.org/ShreddedCabbage

6. 31 – Vishuddha: http://www.writerscafe.org/Suwannee

7. 30 – Closing Thoughts: http://www.writerscafe.org/childofaKing

8. 29 – Ana B. : http://www.writerscafe.org/MockingThoughts

9. 28 – Sindu: http://www.writerscafe.org/SinduV

10. 27 – Teddy: http://www.writerscafe.org/jmtedstone

Commentary:

The turnout was not amazing, but 37 poets submitted a piece. I had to recruit from the Writer’s Cafe community to make it competitive, though we had a few wordpress folk along with the 1st and 4th place finishers.

Next event:

http://www.writerscafe.org/contests/Wuji-Seshat-Nibada-Wordpress-Contest-II/51161/