I found this poem to be very honest but immerse in it's feelings and details. I truly loved the emotion your heart writes about. I think a lot of people felt this way when p and q was down. The wording here was clever and sometimes even comical to me. I think what you are sayimg here is that you missed beung here and each stanza tells why. Like in one you talk about the discussion board and all the opinions of others. And in another you write about missing the poetry and all the wonderful people you have grown to love. This poem was witty and the wording flowed well. Nicely written

O how immense the power to relate is! Love it!

This is a memorable write and truly from the heart! I can't begin to tell you how many times I would type in the address and check with my fingers crossed, even though I knew someone would have made an announcement on Facebook.

Wonderful write. It's truly a blessing and something to be cherished how we can write from deep within, and be able to understand each other through those thoughts and feelings shared.

I love how we can all relate to this it is our site and for many of us in some way or another it is our home so this is wonderful. I love the wording, you really got emotion and emphasis across. I also like how personal you made this. Well done.

Congrats on the win :)

Congrats on the win Larry
I agree with the judge that said this is not sad, I can see some comedy value in it.

I have given this 4 points because of the wit in this. I don't for one second buy into the claim that this is a sad poem. It reads to me as quite 'tongue in cheek' and I feel the writer has led those that have commented on sadness right up the garden path.

It almost had me until this;
'and smile as they scribble in crayon
their silliest assertions of life.'

Then I re-read the piece hunting for any evidence of fear, fear that the site would never return, fear that those that refuse to use facebook would be lost forever. But there was no fear. Fear equals sadness, so where is the sadness?
But as a comical piece or even a nature piece!! it works.
So here is my 4 points.

This is a really cool piece,I love how you've used a universal (ok not universal, but really big network problem) :-) as the inspiration for a poem, you describe the online poets so magnificently "...momentous thoughts and queries into the being...their innermost dreams...their silliest assertions of life" it perfectly describes most poets these days, their "gloom and doom"being the inspiration for some wonderful (and not so wonderful) pieces, well done :-)

I wasn't going to add this, but reading some of the reviews has made me feel a little more brave, enough to say that, your poem is so heartfelt, yet in some ways there's a touch of the comical and dramatic.I've only been on this site for about a week but I can relate so well to the sense of comical abandonment felt when I can't get onto the site, it's sd though the world has ended because there's no poetic ecstasy for me to consume, this site has become my home, my world and my incurable addiction, so while I'm writing this review,I just want to say that whomever it was that created this awesome site,I owe you my life :-P