Friends and Fellow Poets!

I am so happy with the progress of our Poetry Board; we bloom, we are blossoming now, and it is so beautiful to behold; it is so gratifying for me to see this place the birth of which I witnessed bloom and grow to be so great and strong.

I am so grateful to you for your beautiful and generous contributions! You give of yourselves; our Poetry Board is made up of the pieces of us all.

Please, can you forgive me for not replying more and in greater detail to all your wonders? Always know I love all your posts! I am not the strongest person... I have problems, illnesses, woes and weaknesses... but I read and love them all and each, these posts of yours; they are beautiful gifts floating down from the sky each day and every night: my manna from the heaven which is you.

Thank you!

I wanted to post these words to make two points:

FIRST, to thank you with all my heart! You are making this a magical place! And please forgive me for not replying more, and more perfectly; I am doing my best, and please know I love and value and honor your every word. Please, keep writing and posting, as much as and anything you please, and we will build the greatest poetry site of all... in fact, we have already; which reminds me: tell everyone what we have done and found, and invite them to come and be among us here!

SECOND, I want to assure you that our Poetry Board is a safe place, a secure situation. I am utterly committed to this place; I will never leave you. You are safe here, in a stable situation which will always be here for you. We have no turbulence, no drama; this is our home, and we are safe here. We have had the random flamer and the peripatetic weirdo, but we have dealt with them and they are gone; ours is an uncommonly stable environment. I am ever-vigilant; I always keep the watch for you. This is our home, and we defend it.

So enjoy! Open your hearts and share with the world the glories which bloom within you; let those buds inside of you bloom for the world, and do it here with us, where you are safe. You can depend on this place, it is your home, your sanctuary. Let us take good and loving care of it, and of each other; it is precious, as are we.

Do my words make any sense? I hope so... You are so kind to put up with my hundreds of sonnets...

Transeamus! I will keep on writing my Transcendental Sonnets, and I will keep on loving and appreciating all the beautiful flowers which you bring me here each day.

Bloom!

We are magnificent! I celebrate us all and each, and this our home, our Poetry Board, which we have grown and which now blooms and which we love so wise so well.

In unbreakable solidarity with you all and each and every; always, always, always...

+Steven Curtis Lance, ASCAP

Poet in Residence, Mind-Brain.com

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA: TRANSEAMUS

Passionate words friend . There are wonderful works here and several places in the heart that we all travel from time to time . This is a special place even for the couple of days that I've seen . Be the keeper of the rhyme and celebrate the beauty that is found in everyone . So many go through life with the notion that they have nothing to offer . This is so untrue. There are always things we have inside to share in song or lyric or verse so I will bring my pains and pleasures to the board for any who might gain from their simplicity. God Bless and Be Well.
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