In Praise of the WYPOD
(Cheryl, Jude, Judy, Julie, Rachelle)
and
My Other Blogging Friends
How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love you when together we start to write
for although you’re always out of sight,
you’re never out of mind. So many days
we’ve spent sitting at keyboards, tapping
at computer keys. Is this the way to please
each other, a choosing of words, a squeeze
of meaning into a smaller space, overlapping
metaphors and images improved in ways
we never dreamed of on our own? Each
to his or her own, we say. Yet we reach
out to each other over time and space,
not joined at hip or lip, but with energy and zest,
sailing similar seas, and trying our very best.
rogermoorepoet 
Your”fire” is very impressive n meaningful.dance n dancer is symbol as we all are dancers and dancing for God’s happiness.
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“Dance, dance, wherever you may be, for I am the Lord of the Dance” said He. Indeed: we all dance, each to a slightly different tune.
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True.
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Very beautiful n lovely poem.dear roger !! Memories are stubborn.and old friends are d shining gems of life.
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“Diamonds in the desert” as you said earlier. From far away, you come to comfort me. Thank you.
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Oh no dear roger !! I said true.
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Good stuff, R.
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Thanks Chuck: it was a pretty spontaneous response to a prompt from Rachelle, one of the WYPOD founding members. We’ve been together online now for just over five years. We should do an article for TWUC on the persistence of the group!
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I think we are joined by something, beyond writing, beyond butter tarts. So glad to know you.
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Thanks, Judy. And yes, of course we are joined by something beyond writing. It’s been a long-term, long-distance relationship for all of us. For more than five years now … such joy and companionship.
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Lovely, Roger! Our blogging friends add brightness to each day!
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If I was any kind of poet I would write Ode to Roger. But I’m not, so just sending great big butter tart hugs instead.
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I wrote this a long time ago, when challenged by Rachelle to produce just such a poem. I loved it then and have only just re-discovered it. So glad I did. So good to see you here, Julie. I hope all goes well. I’ll e-mail you.
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