L'aura del Campo

Asking for Reviews? Good Idea or Bad?

SPRING: 5 Jamál (2 May)

         Twelth Day of Ridvan          

Weather where I am and where my mother is: 70º (rarely happens )

Weather in Aurora, CO where my friend Esfan lives: 72º

Weather in Roma: 61º, a pleasant evening for Prodi!

Thank you for rating and reviewing

A warm thank-you to the following members who have helped rate various items in the last two days:

Nada , Stripes , waves , Agent-409 , rjsimonson , giggler , Equilibrium , dwilliamsbw, Miss Pageturner , skymac , AXiLeA , andrew .

I hope I didn't forget anyone .

Mission Girl reviews

When I asked for reviews there were only 9, if I remember right. Now there are over 18. So what happened? I asked for reviews in my blog and then went to the review page to ask there. Now, this wasn't the only item I plugged ... so why so much response? Maybe it is the title? the description? the plug? a public review? Then again it could be that the other poems were read but didn't connect in a way that this one did.

I just checked the review page ... it couldn't be my description ... I've done much better.

So what did I learn? 11 females rated it an average of 4.4; 7 males, 4.5. Not much difference there. I can discern no pattern from the stats. My '5 STAR' audience is a "married female, 40-49, with grad school education". Perhaps the mother of the 'mission girl' ?

Anyway, it was basically liked for its:

"fun, good flow, serious message emphasised by the use of shallow and superficial rhyme, metre and content (gawd ... that person hit the nail on the head! read my thoughts well!) and could be lyrics to a song with a few more lines and a refrain!"

I'll have to think about that last comment. I don't write lyrics very often ... maybe I should!

In summation: it is always nice to get reviews and to be read. This one poem has 74 views, which is pretty good, I think. My most viewed poems are: "Speak soft my name"  with 281 views and "First drum set"  with 207. I'm happy with both although one is serious, the other very light. You-all may as well go read them if you haven't already! After-all, I'd like to see one of my poems get 1,000 views and 200 ratings and reviews!

SENSED

Seen: faces of the pansies looking south-east; dead baby bird squished on the sidewalk; two pink children's boots; red-orange honeysuckle vine; rhubarb ready to cut; privet in bloom.

Smelled: iris; crushed chocolate mint; fresh thyme;

Touched: crushing juniper; the smooth stalk of a dandelion picked and bent into a ring; silk-satiny petals of a rose; yellow anthers of a white-pink peony; velvet trumpet of a petunia; potted wisteria; silky seedheads of anemone.

Heard: drill of a woodpecker; accident (car hit man on bike); mower; trimmer.

Newly sketched yesterday:

Antonio

Black waters, steeped in tropical leaves,
weak tea that mirrors the stark white egret,
the butterfly that morphs to blue. Who
was this boy I never knew,
who walked on lily pads, on water,
whose waterfalls had graced my dreams
before I ever met his sister?
Black mirrored warmth once smiled at me,
now smiles each day at another. [163.87]

2,916 views! My goal of 3,000 is within reach.

pssssst, Susan, psssst, just one last note ... 91º in guymon, OK today ... can you feel the heat all the way up in Iowa?