Popular Narrative Poems: May 2012

Narrative poems receiving the most traffic in May were (in order) . .

1. 'The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare'
2. 'Confession'
3. 'An End to War'
4. 'The Man Who Brought Royalty to America'
5. 'I Asked the Angels'
6. 'Dionysus'
7. 'The Man Who Saved History'
8. 'The Man Who Gave All the Dreamers in Baseball Land Bigger Dreams to Dream'
9. 'An Idiot Chase'
10. 'The Day God Invented Bluegrass'
11. 'With the Passing of the Storm'
12. 'When Love Met Hate on the Causeway'

The two poems getting the most specific searches this past month were 'I Asked the Angels' and 'An End to War'. 'Angels' has been getting more attention of late.  'With the Passing of the Storm' has been getting a few targeted hits recently, too.

Popular Narrative Poems: December 2011

Narrative poems receiving the most traffic last December were . .

1. 'The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare'
2. 'Confession'
3. 'Dionysus'
4. 'The Man Who Brought Royalty to America'
5. 'The Man Who Saved History'
6. 'An Idiot Chase'
7. 'I Asked the Angels'
8. 'An End to War'
9. 'The Day God Invented Bluegrass'
10. 'When Love Met Hate on the Causeway'

Partly due to the popularity of the narrative poems, but mostly so I won't be editing different versions, I've created just one page for 'An End to War' and 'The Tycoon Who Craved Macaroon' in the narrative section. I pulled versions under the other genres they fit: beat and word, respectively.

Ironically, 'War' was my first major beat poem, and still could be considered the grandmother of all of them. And 'Tycoon' is certainly the king of my word poems.  I've left links from the other categories, together with the titles on the index pages, so visitors will know these poems share a genre.

PROGRESS: 'The Man Who Conquered the World'

Begun way back in 2004, my 'poetical parsing' of the life of Alexander the Great (from Plutarch's Lives) continues here.  It's sorta like one of those serial releases in magazine, except that: 1) it's not in print (and I can change the words any ol' time I want to); 2) I'm not getting paid per issue (or hardly at all); 3) the releases are on no regular schedule.  In all other ways it's exactly like that.

Popular Narrative Poems: September 2011

The website traffic counter my 'web guy' set up for me says the narrative poem index is the sixth largest entry page.

Popular in September

1. "The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare"
   
2. "The Madness of Heracles"
   
3. "I Asked the Angels"
   
4. "Confession"
   
5. "Dionysus"
   
6. "When Love Met Hate on the Causeway"
   
7. "The Man Who Saved History"
   
8. "An End to War"
   
9. "Orion"

Narrative poems made up all of the poetry receiving traffic--until the sonnet "What If Everything I Know Is Wrong" comes up.