Fare Well

Posted on April 3, 2023 by earthweal

After three years of great earth poetry, earthweal comes to a close. It’s time to move on.

Thanks to all for your beautiful, heartfelt and moving contributions, and especially to Sherry Marr for all the work she put into this forum with challenges and poetry.

I’ll leave the site open in case anyone wants to delve back into archived challenges and poetry. Such good work has been done.

Best to all.

Brendan

35 thoughts on “Fare Well”

susanstoo on April 3, 2023 at 12:23 am said:

I will miss you. I already miss you

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 4:55 am said:
  
  Thanks Susan – Appreciate all your fine poetry and wish you the best.
  
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Suzanne on April 3, 2023 at 12:59 am said:

I wish you and Sherry well with your future endeavors. You’ve given us some wonderful and thought provoking prompts over time. Like Susan says – I will miss you.

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 4:56 am said:
  
  Thanks Suzanne. It was always wonderful to hear your evolving thoughts and hear from an Australian voice. – Brendan
  
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SelmaMartin on April 3, 2023 at 1:25 am said:

I read more than I participated here. And every time read wonderful heartfelt words for our Mother Earth. A wonderful memorable place this will always be.
Thanks for all you put into it. I bless you and wish you miracles in all your endeavors. Always and forever.

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 4:56 am said:
  
  Thanks Selma – Brendan
  
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paul scribbles on April 3, 2023 at 9:02 am said:

Another extinction to grieve over. Grist for the Mill perhaps. Thank You both for your efforts and holding of this liminal space. My time here was sparse but meaningful to me. May the road rise up to meet you both.
Paul xx

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 5:20 pm said:
  
  Thanks Paul — the mill doth gristeth but the work goes on, where and as it can. Thanks for sharing such fine poetry here. – Brendan
  
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  - paul scribbles on April 3, 2023 at 6:12 pm said:
    
    Twas genuinely a pleasure.
    
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erbiage on April 3, 2023 at 9:23 am said:

Brendan thank you a thousand times for earthweal! Your prompts have been challenging and thought provoking. You have revealed me to myself, I cannot thank you enough for this gift. Please continue to make an impact in the world.
Eric

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 5:21 pm said:
  
  Thanks Eric, your contributions here were greatly appreciated when we saw them. You keep up the good work, too. – Brendan
  
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Sherry Marr on April 3, 2023 at 11:14 am said:

One more parting, yet one more gift received, in the time we spent here contemplating how to help Mother Earth. Thank you for this forum, Brendan – a place to put our love, our grief and such hope as we could muster. It was just what I needed. Now our work continues out in the world, so in need of our action. And thank you to all the poets who wrote their love and pain so beautifully here in response to the prompts. It has been a wonderful sharing. I am glad the site will remain as an archive, as there is so much valuable information – and inspiration – here.

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- memadtwo on April 3, 2023 at 12:29 pm said:
  
  Thanks Sherry for all your words and continual support. (K)
  
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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 5:21 pm said:
  
  Special thanks Sherry for making all this count, week after week. – Brendan
  
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memadtwo on April 3, 2023 at 12:28 pm said:

Another thank you. I was an irregular, but the prompts and especially all the information you and Sherry provided expanded my vision. Good luck with your book. (K)

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The Cheesesellers Wife on April 3, 2023 at 1:33 pm said:

I will miss this little place on the web. Thank you for all the opportunities and all the great poetry.

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- earthweal on April 3, 2023 at 5:22 pm said:
  
  Thanks Kim for making this little place on the web count. – Brendan
  
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  - The Cheesesellers Wife on April 13, 2023 at 5:51 am said:
    
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Rall on April 3, 2023 at 3:40 pm said:

Thank you Brendan and Sherry for all your hard work and for giving us the opportunity to express our poetic thoughts on this site. Best of luck for the future !

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Truedessa on April 3, 2023 at 6:51 pm said:

I am sad to read the news today but, I respect your decision to move on to other projects or to just enjoy life.

The challenges were thought provoking. Raising our consciousness to see the bigger issues that our planet is facing. We grew a few branches, feathers and wings, sang with whales, swam with polar bears. We saw through a different lens of perception. We grew roots, we dug into the earth exploring all that we could. We cried and laughed and wrote from a place of passion that comes from the heart.

Thank you for the journey! May you be blessed in the next phase of your quest.

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Rajani Radhakrishnan on April 3, 2023 at 9:40 pm said:

This is truly sad news. Thank you for all you did, Brendan and Sherry. This was and is important work. I wish it didn’t have to end but I am sure you have good reasons. I wish you all the very best as you work on your other writing projects. Will keep seeing you around the blog lanes. All my gratitude and wishes.

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Sherry Marr on April 4, 2023 at 7:40 pm said:

Reading these lovely comments makes me feel like we did some good and needed work here. That is a good feeling. I cant seem to write anything any more that doesnt touch on the escalating climate crisis, so that will continue on my blog and in a book of essays I am putting together. Thank you all for letting us know earthweal mattered. I will miss it, but am very glad I had the chance to participate.

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phillip woodruff on April 5, 2023 at 7:46 pm said:

this is really heartbreaking news. is there no way of continuing on? i wish i could have been a more faithful reader and contributor, i’m not really an online kind of person, sorry i couldn’t support you guys more. i really enjoyed your articles here, not just about climate change, but also on literature (that article you guys did on mad sweany is a personal favorite) thank you for the time and effort and love you put into this, and if you ever decide to fire it back up, i will try to be here. and thank you for leave up the archives for me to continue to explore. take care and best wishes sherry and brendon, please, don’t be strangers

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- earthweal on April 6, 2023 at 9:40 am said:
  
  Thanks Phillip – earthweal went extinct for lack of fresh air — too much grief, not enough hope and vanishing interest. Appreciate the thumbs up and we’ll be sure to keep in touch. – Brendan
  
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hedgewitch on April 6, 2023 at 1:01 am said:

Such sadness to find this here. I only wish I could have participated more, but my own particular changing climate has seen such drought. Nevertheless, you and Sherry prompted several poems from me that otherwise might never have been born, so I will always be deeply grateful for that. May there always be high tides and winds to fill your sails, my friends. Thank you.

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- earthweal on April 6, 2023 at 9:41 am said:
  
  Same to you, friend, and thanks. That drought has been creeping all over the online poetry realm. – Brendan
  
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Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost (@readersroost) on April 7, 2023 at 3:45 pm said:

Bummer, but I get it. I sometimes wonder why I bother with my own poetry site. My posts never get more than a few views. I’m not publishing any of the poems I write this month there because I am submitting them for potential inclusion in an anthology, and publishing them on my blog would invalidate them for consideration. I was always kind of an outlier rather than a real member of this community, but I love this site. I’m glad it will remain in archive form.

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lindi on April 7, 2023 at 4:06 pm said:

Aah – such sadness. Thank you Brendan and Sherry for the fine prompts, good conversation, encouragement and for holding a space for us to all find our way through. So sorry I could not step up when needed. May your writing flourish. With love and thanks.

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- earthweal on April 9, 2023 at 3:24 pm said:
  
  Thanks Lindi for all you brought to this forum and here’s to all the great poetry to come. – Brendan
  
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  - lindi on April 10, 2023 at 5:56 am said:
    
    Thanks Brendan. Hope your projects are coming along well too.
    
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Ali Grimshaw on April 8, 2023 at 12:58 pm said:

It is a difficult decision sometimes whether to continue or not. I respect your choice and wish you all the best with your next adventure.

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Rob Kistner on April 12, 2023 at 11:08 pm said:

As much as this feels inevitable to you Brendan, I know it also leaves a void for you, which will pass — and then at times, unexpectedly, stir a bit of fading doubt regarding the decision. I remember when I had to shut down Writers Island. I felt I’d abandoned the Islanders who had come so often to contribute their work over the years. So now, move ahead, and keep spreading the news my friend. This was a wonderful site, and so pertinent in the world we inhabit today — you should be proud. ✌🏼

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Ingrid on April 17, 2023 at 7:27 am said:

Thanks so much to both you and Sherry for hosting the forum, Brendan. I have learned much, and there would be no Anthropocene Hymnal without earthweal. I wish you all the best for the future!

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Rosemary Nissen-Wade on April 26, 2023 at 1:59 am said:

Wish I’d felt able to participate more often – time constraints and other commitments. I was mostly more of a reader than contributor, and I see I’m rather late to discover this concluding notice, too, but would be remiss not to express my appreciation for what took place here and my gladness that it will remain as an archive. Thanks to you all.

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M on May 18, 2023 at 1:20 pm said:

Brendan and Sherry – I too dip my head and doff my cap to this site, and to you both. Seems the poh tree no longer blooms much for me, hence my scarcity, but I do extend good wishes to what lies ahead. Cheers, and thank you ~ M

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