Kill the winter - Sun shine on
Kill the winter - Sun shine on
Melt the snow - Reveal the dead
Free the hammer and chisel from the stone
Reveal the ground to free my head
Let me feel - Let me see - Everything stop glistening
Let the melting set me free - Budding branches on the tree
Kiss the world - Breakthrough flowers
Illuminate what’s devoured
Warm the waking - warm the growing hour - Illuminate the ivory tower
Change the white sheets which make the bed
With colors - greens - yellows - blues and reds
Let me hear the swallow or robin song
Cold away to the northernmost edge - be gone
<Deleted User> (13762)
Fri 5th Jan 2018 16:18
Good question 220. I think it would be a useful tool but only if the 'counter' is seen by the individual who posted the poem and not everyone in general. Otherwise it might become a rather unfair and unofficial competition of who is or isn't the most popular poet! That would also sit uncomfortably with the idea of community encouragement that Write Out Loud seeks to foster. Whether or not it is possible to do I'm afraid I couldn't say. One for the WoL tech team to ponder?
All the best, Colin.