I'm going to celebrate with poetry!
When I started this blog I was riddled with insecurity and lack of confidence. I used to come online, laughing and flirting and pretending to be totally The Thing. The truth was, if I had had a poem dedicated to me back then, I would have run in terror. I wouldn't have understood that I was good enough for such warm appreciation.
It was a long journey for me to gain confidence, to get a better idea of how strong a person I am. If you are someone who thinks you aren't clever or pretty or funny enough, or otherwise an attractive person, this blogpost is for you. I thought that too when I started writing, and now I have got poetry dedicated to me online. If you had told me that would happen when I started with blog review #1, I would have jumped for joy.
'Smatteroffact (*smugness*) recently two poems were written for me! This one is by my lovely friend HP and is a little spoof on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese #43. That actually is one of my favourite poems, so I am doubly delighted that HP has parodied it for myself. (I probably should explain that my nickname on the writers' board is Duchess, because I use a picture of Duchess the cat from Aristocats as my avatar.)
Duchess:
How do we love thee?
Let me count the ways:
We love thee for thy trenchant humour
That passes all understanding.
We love thee for thy wordage; It passes over my head
At very high speed.
(Feminism?: Wassat ?)
(Deconstruction?: You WHAT?)
We love thee for thy cheeky prose:
And strange translations of foreign poets
read in a breathy English-sounding voice.
The other poem is by Curl4ever, who has started reviewing on this blog and whose stories on Brawna I reviewed recently. His poem is about women generally and how we have many sides to us. I love how he depicts a tigress strength in Internet Feminist.
My troll-smacking outfit - from Pinterest |
I love writing this blog. Here's to another 99 posts! I do enjoy being an Internet Feminist; especially now that I hang out with friends who appreciate what I'm doing and cheer me on. I saw one of the real life bullies the other day at a work event. He looked very miserable and snuck off after lunch with his tail between his legs. I stayed on all weekend, having a delicious single malt whisky with one of my pals and going to fun workshops and chatting with my colleagues about our work.
4 comments:
Happy Nearly Hundredth!
I have no idea just how much dedication it takes to run a blog (another one of those things I've got to learn here soon) but I know that with the turns and trials of life to keep one going for long enough to be about to post your centennial post, that has got to have been both a challenge and a labor of love.
Congratulations, lovely.
I am afraid though that I'm going to have to start trolling you from now on ... simply to get to see you in that Troll-smacking outfit more often.
MST
All pointers now pointed, Duchess.
But I think you might have indicated just WHY that parody was written.
Aww, thanks MST! It does take a lot of love and dedication to keep your blog rolling. I am very proud that I have been able to maintain mine all this time.
You must come up (ho ho) and see my troll-smacking outfit.
HP, I think your gem of a poem stands beautifully on its own, although I will explain.
HP had started a sensible thread asking for practical advice on the writers' board at Literotica about how to do a 'How To' piece of writing. I popped in and used it to say: I really love you guys. Just sayin'. Our friend wrote We love you too. 'Now to write a How-To "Let me count the ways"... and HP wrote his wonderful poem.
Things are not always so lovely and chummy on the writers' board! LOL. But people are often very kind on there.
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