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Victor H. wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A July Night, by John Todhunter
[...]
So, Cleopatra-like has rich July,
A queen of many moods, outdreamed the day
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-night-john-todhunter.html

Oh... this one is an overlooked beauty....!

Another good one by the obscure poet John Todhunter.
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 13:43:52 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

Victor H. wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A July Night, by John Todhunter
[...]
So, Cleopatra-like has rich July,
A queen of many moods, outdreamed the day
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-night-john-todhunter.html >>

Oh... this one is an overlooked beauty....!

Another good one by the obscure poet John Todhunter.

Thanks for bumping it. Todhunter's another poet who's yet to find an
audience on the blog; his page views are OK, but none over 100.
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 2:52:41 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 13:43:52 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

Victor H. wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A July Night, by John Todhunter
[...]
So, Cleopatra-like has rich July,
A queen of many moods, outdreamed the day
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-night-john-todhunter.html >>>

Oh... this one is an overlooked beauty....!

Another good one by the obscure poet John Todhunter.

Thanks for bumping it. Todhunter's another poet who's yet to find an
audience on the blog; his page views are OK, but none over 100.

At least Todhunter has the venue, and the potential for the audience to
find him.
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 9:54:35 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 2:52:41 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 13:43:52 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

Victor H. wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A July Night, by John Todhunter
[...]
So, Cleopatra-like has rich July,
A queen of many moods, outdreamed the day
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-night-john-todhunter.html

Oh... this one is an overlooked beauty....!

Another good one by the obscure poet John Todhunter.

Thanks for bumping it. Todhunter's another poet who's yet to find an
audience on the blog; his page views are OK, but none over 100.

At least Todhunter has the venue, and the potential for the audience to
find him.

True. It will come in time. As long as the blog stays up, the audience continues to grow.

Here's an interesting story in that respect. Earlier this year I was
rereading Vol. 1 of /April/ magazine on the blog. For reasons you may
remember, 3 of the poems in that issue are no longer on the blog, but
are linked to pages on the Wayback Machine. So I read them there, and discovered that (unlike today) those backup pages show the blog's page
counter.

Those backup copies were made in 2019, nine years after PPB began.
According to the page counters, in those 9 years the blog had received
just under 350,000 page views (less than 40,000/year). Six years on, and
we have over 500,000 more (which works out to more than 80,000/year). So
our readership has more than doubled. That's not the greatest - we're
still under the million pageviews I hoped and still hope to get - but it
is progress.
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George J. Dance@novabbs.org (George J. Dance) posted:

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 9:54:35 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 2:52:41 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 13:43:52 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

Victor H. wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A July Night, by John Todhunter
[...]
So, Cleopatra-like has rich July,
A queen of many moods, outdreamed the day
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-night-john-todhunter.html

Oh... this one is an overlooked beauty....!

Another good one by the obscure poet John Todhunter.

Thanks for bumping it. Todhunter's another poet who's yet to find an
audience on the blog; his page views are OK, but none over 100.

At least Todhunter has the venue, and the potential for the audience to find him.

True. It will come in time. As long as the blog stays up, the audience continues to grow.

Here's an interesting story in that respect. Earlier this year I was rereading Vol. 1 of /April/ magazine on the blog. For reasons you may remember, 3 of the poems in that issue are no longer on the blog, but
are linked to pages on the Wayback Machine. So I read them there, and discovered that (unlike today) those backup pages show the blog's page counter.

Those backup copies were made in 2019, nine years after PPB began.
According to the page counters, in those 9 years the blog had received
just under 350,000 page views (less than 40,000/year). Six years on, and
we have over 500,000 more (which works out to more than 80,000/year). So
our readership has more than doubled. That's not the greatest - we're
still under the million pageviews I hoped and still hope to get - but it
is progress.

"Young and daily growing."
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