Why the Pauses?

[dukealien]

Why are there periods on the Pen when many participate, and other periods when few do?

[CRNDLSM]

I flip back and forth between thinking I have something to say and hating the sound of my voice

[milo]

People speak up when there are interesting things to speak up about. If you track, the busiest times are always when there is fighting or controversy. Members chek in for that. The model of give feedback, post a poem , check back ocasionally has never been sustainable either here or anywhere else.

[Wjames]

I usually write in waves where I have a routine (ie write for two hours on Sunday) and stick to it for a few months. Then life gets in the way and that falls away and I do other things.

Then I get back in to writing and come back with a new routine.

[wasellajam]

The site has always gone through dips between high activity. Want to put up your dukes, duke?

Personally, busy June, lack of imagination and this week a series of odd events. I was going to put the story in the coffee shop but didn’t, then was going to put it here but didn’t, then I wrote half a silly poem and gave that up. Stuck with no wifi and a little screen for a bit, harder to read and post. And it’s hot. No real reason for posting less.

What’s up with you?

[alonso ramoran]

I got a new job almost a couple months ago. I remember being a lot more active before then. Now I’ve been on lurking mode.

[dukealien]

The site has always gone through dips between high activity. Want to put up your dukes, duke?

Personally, busy June, lack of imagination and this week a series of odd events. I was going to put the  story in the coffee shop but didn’t, then was going to put it here but didn’t, then I wrote half a silly poem  and gave that up. Stuck with no wifi and a little screen for a bit, harder to read and post. And it’s hot. No real reason for posting less.

What’s up with you?

Just saw a complete rainbow in my back yard... first for me, I think.  You Earthlings are so blessed with your atmosphere!

[busker]

For me, it’s about when I have the bandwidth
I’m usually quite active, but providing feedback takes mental energy and I need to have the right headspace for that. It’s far easier to rant and engage in verbal jousting at other times

[rowens]

I write poems in my sleep. I wake up and poems still happen. Sometimes I drink tea and/or alcohol to make them stop: like pouring vaginal fluid on a snail.
I melt into the mold of making poems.
I'm not sure why people would be here all the time making poems unless there was something wrong with them. Especially seeing there is porn and/or social media and actual places outside the internet; unless they have been banned from them, come here and get banned, as they do on social media.
Also, people aren't in school yearround. You can go in public restrooms or see movies in the smaller theater rooms, and no one will be there but you. And you don't wonder why.
Some people do wonder why. And they stress over it even. Like the holocaust and AI and whether the Greek version is the legit version based on which poet actually talked to god and which is only thinking he is or pretending to be, like when one wonders if one is choosing to think, or even the choice is not chosen, if there is a difference or if it MAKES a difference.
I make a difference. A few minutes ago I was in the bathroom, and now I'm typing here. Different.

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I thought this was going to be a thread on the caesura blatantly placed in General Discussion for novelty, and/or so people will wonder why.