I had a poem boosted on Medium!

I still can’t believe it. Getting boosted on Medium is a huge deal because it brings far more readers to your work which translates nicely to more earnings. I have been extremely lucky to have been boosted many times since I joined Medium over eighteen months ago, but I never, ever expected to get boosted for a poem! Poems and short form writing don’t do so well on Medium because they are so short, but it’s still a lot of fun to write them and in particular, I love responding to writing prompts.

I was thrilled to bits to have this poem boosted as it is my favourite one at the moment. It was written in response to a prompt from the Promptly Written publication which suggested keeping a gratitude journal and writing a poem a day from it.

I’ve been thinking about gratitude a lot lately so this was really timely for me and immediately caught my interest.

I wrote a poem for Monday which got a few reads and earned me a few pence, then posted the following poem for Tuesday, which was about walking my elderly dog Tinks down the lane. Getting boosted for this really means a lot as we all know she is on her last doddery legs and every moment with her is precious. For her poem to get boosted and seen by more people is just lovely.

Anyway, here it is, alongside a photo I took of her on the day in question.

Just for while
we had the world to ourselves
in a moody silence
just the buzzard on the oak tree
looking over its shoulder
to follow our slow progress
just the fast flit of tiny birds
from one hedgerow to another
just the crows taking off lazily
and the pheasant on the fence post
just wandering alongside you
matching your feeble pace
and the age it takes
to get from here to there
and back again
is the time it takes
for everything to fall silent
for this beauty to breathe so slowly
that I can breathe with it
in, out, in, out
with the time to see, hear, taste and smell
the lonely land falling asleep
as winter creeps into
your old bones