The blogosphere we dwell in, works in strange ways;
two years hence, it’s still an inscrutable haze
You wake up one morning, ripe with thought;
restless to mold the flux down to the dot
Proud of your work, you wait for the traffic to spike;
two days fly by, and you would kill for a single like
And then you bump into some post with a mere ten words;
the scores of comments beneath make your stomach turn inwards
“What did I do wrong?”, you ponder in vain
It’s got a voice and passion that you did not feign
It’s got pictures that enliven, and grammar that’s clean,
with humorous segues you tactfully threw in between
“Then, am I not showering enough blog love?”, you wonder
To get to the bottom, you tear your comment policy asunder
A comment begets one, no doubts there
But, what to do for two likes, to show that you care?
And what about the follows, should a follow follow one?
Then you wistfully realize you don’t have a ton
You get tired and give up at the face of concerns too many,
when you refresh your blog page and hit an epiphany
“Tis for souls like us that freshly pressed solely exists!”
Alas! That too turns out to be such an elusive tryst
Does ability trump? Or is need enough to catch your eye?
coz some posts are poignant; some make you go “Why?!”
So, WP, do your little swagger, and pretend not to hear
coz when we do arrive, we’ll more than bend your ear!
Well that about sums up my thoughts on most of my days.
Thank you
Nice one. Yell at the wordpress gods. Proud of you and of triangle girl.
Also, I think you should run a comic type thing parallel to your blog. The adventures of triangle girl. There’s something there.
I’ve been thinking about it too. If I have fertile ideas for the triangle girl, I’ll start it soon!
I loved this, Aparna. And it’s all the more funny because it’s so true! I really don’t think there’s much rhyme or reason to blogging, as much as WP attempts to help us out with their tips and such. I say we should just carry on and do what we want, regardless of whether 1 person hears us or 100. Cheers.
That is so true, Lillian. As much as it bothers me to no end that I haven’t figured this WP thing out, I do think if we aren’t writing for the sake of writing and the enjoyment it gives us, we are blogging for all the wrong reasons.
Thanks for the lovely comment
I agree there’s no “formula” to blogging that’s the right way to develop a following. I look at the examples WP has on ‘getting Freshly Pressed,’ and on general advice, and then I read a ‘Freshly Pressed’ blog, and it breaks all of the rules and advice mentioned by WP.
I think, as lillianccc, says “carry on and do what we want.’
My own ‘formula’? Try to make good content, reach out to other bloggers and make comments on blogs I’m genuinely interested in, and then hope for some luck.
Welcome, and thanks for leaving such a thoughtful comment here. I agree with you on all counts!
Haha..that’s the question of the millenium!
Seems WP has its own criterias which are unrevealed to us,
anywayz what we can do is just keep on getting better day by day..everyday!
And yaa..nice poetic approach towards this issue..I liked it !
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! I appreciate it!
Anytime..welcome!
This is really cute and well-written. It’s freshly pressable in and of itself, and when I meet one of those magic WP editors, I’m sending him your way!
Thank you so much! You are too kind, Stacie! As for the elusive WP editors, I hope you meet them soon. I’m sure we all have a bone to pick with them!
Ha! I run into this all the time. Certain posts I dwell over, and only get a few comments. The other day I had nothing to say, and I pulled out a post I’d written a year ago and stored for a “Rainy Day” That post now has something like 101 comments on it. You just never know what will resonate with people.
Just a thought, though… watch your tagging. Try to think of what you might type into google if you were looking for an article like yours, and type in any possible combination. You might see your numbers raise a little.
Good luck!
Thanks for leaving such a resourceful comment. I truly appreciate it. I’ll fine tune my tagging a lot more from now on, and surely let you know if it works out!
My most successful posts usually didn’t seem like anything special to me when I first posted them. I feel two posts can be equally good, but one will be easier to comment on and will get people thinking. It can be hard to figure out.
True. I find myself being blown away by some posts with excellent writing, but I just don’t know what to say about them, other than a stilted “very-well written”. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment!
Add ‘freshly pressed’ to your list of tags for this poem.
love it!
Thank you!
This was seriously so good, Aparna. I loved it.
Thank you so much Jorie!
Hey that was good, most might have felt it!
Critique/review/comment this flash fiction in the LINK please
http://yourstoryclub.com/short-stories-social-moral/short-story-remembrance-the-fall/