About the state of economy :-)

Hi everyone,

another year has gone by and after more than 1100 blog entries and over 35000 blog views here I am celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the blog.

These are the "most wanted" poems:
1. Mario Benedetti: In defence of joy
2. Fleur Adcock: For Heidi with blue hair (especially for teenagers :-)

3. Wendy Cope: Two cures for love (one of those greate two-liners, and sooooo true :-)
4. Wislawa Szymborska: A little girl tugs at the tablecloth (very funny, especially if you have a baby in the family)
5. Christopher Poindexter: She buried her ears...
6. Pablo Neruda: Ode to the happy day
7. Octavio Paz: Two bodies
8. Mario Benedetti: Tactic and strategy
9. Pablo Neruda: A legszomorúbb vers (Puedo Escribir in Hungarian)
10. Wislawa Szymborska: We knew the world backwards and forwards

So as you see, from the ten most read, five come from Spanish speaking countries, but never in the original language, even though the Spanish version is also available on my blog.
Nobel Prize winner Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska still holds two places from the ten, just as Mario Benedetti and Pablo Neruda does.

Visitors still come from all over the world, like Bahama Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Zimbabwe, Katar, Mauritius, Ghana, Guadalupe... Of course most of the visitors arrive from the US, Hungary, Russia, UK and Germany.

Recently I changed a little the routine: Wednesdays and Saturdays are for Hungarian poems while the rest of the weekdays are for English ones. Later I might return to posting contemporary latin-american poetry in Spanish and in English. Or who knows, I might give terrain to poetry in other languages.

Thank you for your attention, hope to see you around in the future, too :-)

1002nd blog entry :-)

I had a busy weekend and forgot about the 1000th blog entry :-)
Better late than never: hats off to all the readers who are still around! That's the attitude!

About the state of economy :-)

So, I launched this blog a year ago. As of today, more than 750 poems have been posted, and you have no idea how many are waiting in line at this very moment :-)

Soon the number of visitors will reach 16,000. You may wonder which were the most popular posts so far. The top five poems are as follows: In defense of joy by Mario Benedetti, Two bodies by Octavio Paz, A little girl tugs at the tablecloth by Wislawa Szymborska, I loved my friend by Langston Hughes, and a Hungarian poem, Vallomás, by Jenő Heltai. I find it great that in the top five, there are two Spanish-speaking poets and a Polish one :-)

It is so good to see visitors from all over the world. Naturally, because most of the poems are in English, most visitors come from English speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand...). Some regular readers visit from European countries (Hungary, of course, but also Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland...). Others arrive from Costa Rica, Mexiko, South-Korea, the Philippines, China, Russia, and there are occassional readers from African countries and other distant places such as Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico, among others. I certainly hope not all of those visitors are statistic websites :-)

It is a pity almost noone ever leaves a comment. However, I sometimes receive an encouraging mail from readers - let me thank you now publicly, too.
Many of these poems I share here had helped me in the past in various situations. I wish that reading these poems you find solace, help, encouragement, inspiration and whatever else you need at this very moment in your life.

I hope you found this anniversary blog entry interesting because I intend to debrief you every year at Halloween, if you will still stick around by then :-)