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End Of Year Review #2

Let’s keep the momentum going!

Ravyne Hawke

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Promptly Written

9 min readDec 21, 2021

Greetings PW writers and readers! The Pub is open. Come, grab a drink and a snack and find yourselves a comfortable place to read. I have a few more requests to make among you, my friends.

As I mentioned in the first review, I am thrilled with how well Promptly Written has been received and how enthusiastically you’ve all responded. I also mentioned a trend that I’ve noticed. Some of the poets in the Under 100 Claps list have only submitted work once and never again in the nearly three months we’ve been open. I can only presume it is because their work hasn’t been well-received here — read, highlighted, commented upon, or clapped for. I am sure they wandered off to better pastures, other publications, or may even have given up on writing for a while. Others poets are prolific writers for PW even though their work is barely being read or recognized. I am so grateful to them, but this is unacceptable. And this is exactly what I did not want happening here at PW.

The question is — How can we change this?

I have to admit, I feel great shame for not assisting my publications’ writers more, and I accept my part of the blame in not making all of our writers here feel welcome, to know their work has worth and meaning, and to know it deserves to be read and acknowledge with a clap and/or comment. And as the EIC of this publication, I will be implementing a few new changes in January that I hope will make PW a more receptive place for all writers. I will be putting out another article on that soon.

I know we all have our favorite writers here on Medium. We follow them, subscribe to them, immediately rush to read them as soon as they’ve published something, clap, and comment. And yet, there are so many amazing writers on Medium who are barely recognized. And they are awesome writers! Everyone on the previous list, this list, and future lists, I have read and have delighted in their work. Please give some of these other writers a chance. You may just find your next favorite!

This will be about Poetry again. Expect one soon on Fiction.

I want to thank everyone who responded to my last review and helped give those poets at or below 100 claps some well-needed love and attention. If you still have not read some of these great pieces, please check them out here

End Of Year Review #1

How Can This Be?

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Let’s keep that momentum going. Here is a list of Poetry that is below 200 claps. Again, this is not necessarily about claps. This tells me that these poems are not being read and the same trend I mentioned above is also reflected here. Let’s change that!

(Note: I was going to break this up into a few separate lists, but I think it is very telling that there are so many here who are not being read. And I needed to see just how many and who they are. And they are all amazing writers.)

I owe all of you my sincere apologies. You deserve better than what you are receiving here at PW. We will strive to do better here in 2022.

So please, as you visit these, read them and only after reading, clap as you feel inspired and if you have time, please leave them a comment.

As you read each of these, please come back here and HIGHLIGHT them so that we know they are being read. Thank you!

The Works At or Below 200 claps

Nancy Elliott — Promenade
Yan Huang — To Be, or What To Be
Mihai Brinas — By Boat
Teresa Grabs — A Long Way To Go
Teresa Grabs — Promises In The Stars
Yan Huang — When You Keep Your Promises After 50 Years
Kathy - KN J Tales and Snippets — A Mother’s Love
srstowers — The Moon Drifts
KM Bernard — An Accidental Encounter
Adriana Vazquez — Today I Will Build
Prashansa Chandekar — Today I Will Choose To Love Myself
Upen Singh — Movement In Stillness
Desiree M. Ortega — Today I Will Be Okay With What I Don’t Do
Prashansa Chandekar — Forgotten
NIDAA — Letter To Love
NIDAA — I Want To Write
Nancy Elliott — For Just A Moment
IMΛBӨПG FΛMIПЦ — Dusk Turns To Night
Valorie Lasley — Thanksgiving
Angie Smartt — Moonstruck
Kacege — Moon Rising
Sujona Chatterjee — Things That Go Bump In The Night
srstowers — The Last Day For Coffee Drinking
Teresa Grabs — The Last Day
Joe Merkle — There Was A Time
Mihai Brinas — Art Gallery
jules — Samhain Tanka
srstowers — Hope, a Vulture
Joe Merkle — Before And After
Casey Lawrence — A Petty Poem
Tas (they/them) — Growing Hope
Ghina Zaidi — Hope! The Only Reason To Live
srstowers — Outside of Time, We Exist
jules — Life’s Dance
Casey Lawrence — Life’s Lessons
Teresa Grabs — Life’s Purpose
KiKi Walter — Life’s Sweetness
Sharing Words — Thanksgiving
Fifi Leigh — November New Moon
Teresa Grabs — The Unwise Man Desires
Fifi Leigh — Life’s My Stage
Giulietta Passarelli — Finding Neverland
Teresa Grabs — Which Future Will It Be
Casey Lawrence — If I’m Being Generous
KiKi Walter — What Mother Gives
Scot Butwell — He Was Not Generous
srstowers — You Should Have Been A Pirate
Casey Lawrence — Piraticians
Teresa Grabs — The Wild Waters
KiKi Walter — Ode To The Topaz Buccaneer
Fifi Leigh — One Autumn Day
Teresa Grabs — The Journey
Joe Merkle — The Journey
Sharing Words — Journey
Mihai Brinas — Together
Casey Lawrence — La bonne journée (haiku)
jules — Chivalry of Men
Jared Griffin — The Birds
Teresa Grabs — Wearing A New Label
Jared Griffin — My Failed Attempt to Describe a Moment That was Indescribable
AK (Aaska Aejaz) — Inner Voice
Jared Griffin — The Fam
srstowers — Resolve Defined: a Poem
Casey Lawrence — the trouble is
Giulietta Passarelli — A Grateful Gathering
Teresa Grabs — The Past’s Resolve
Casey Lawrence — Ode to a Researcher
Teresa Grabs — Temptation
Nivetha krishnan — Round The Clock
Sam Finlayson — Elegy Of A Broken Man
Joanne Olivieri — My Gifts For You
Mihai Brinas — Tell Me More
Casey Lawrence — Enten/Eller
Teresa Grabs — Either Alive or Dead
IMΛBӨПG FΛMIПЦ — What Does Charity Mean To You
jules — Is Thanksgiving a Spiritual Holiday?
Cassandra Armstrong — Avocado Toast with a Side of Self-Depreciation
Joanne Olivieri — Either coffee or tea?
Joe Merkle — Darkness Or Light
Mihai Brinas — Transplant
Manthan Mohite — Mirrors to the Paradise Within
Teresa Grabs — Only in Your Dreams
jules — Storms On the Menu
KiKi Walter — The Narcissist
Joanne Olivieri — Belly Dancer
Tas (they/them) — Misogynistic Snow
Casey Lawrence — Colossal Women
Joanne Olivieri — Holiday Dinner
Mihai Brinas — Flying Like Wondering
jules — Ode to Poetry Adventures
Joanne Olivieri — Pulsating
Ellen Andaya — The New is Calling
Scot Butwell — I’d Select This Tonight
Joanne Olivieri — Driftwood
Scot Butwell — My Day, 2:43 p.m.
Sally Prag — The Dog’s Snowy Play
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — Poem: Christmas Card
Teresa Grabs — A Winter Reminder
Nivetha krishnan — Thirty Days Celebration
Nivetha krishnan — Blizzard’s Woe
Joanne Olivieri — Biological Clock
Teresa Grabs — The Best Gift
Angie Smartt — In the Footprints of the Good King
Tas (they/them) — It Was Not Just A Storm
Jenn Murg — Frayed
Hope Carter — A Notice
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — Poem: Candy Cane
L Burton — Shades of You
Jennifer N. Adams — Anxiety and Insomnia
Stephen Chamberlin — Viola
Kimberly Hampton Nilsson — Conversations with a Fish
Stephen Chamberlin — Quitter
Rhonda Marrone — Violet is the Color…
Shagufta — The way you treated her
Joanne Olivieri — I Don’t Need It
Rane Kelze — The Gift Box
Fifi Leigh — Haiku for 12.20.21
Mihai Brinas — Unknown Stories
Mihai Brinas — A Light in the Night
Neera Handa Dr — Shades of purple

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