{"id":17,"date":"2008-03-04T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/the-world\/"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:56:27","slug":"the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From it&#8217;s beginning, I have given the Poetry Chaikhana web site the tagline &#8220;Sacred Poetry from Around the World.&#8221; I am regularly reminded that the Poetry Chaikhana community is also from around the world &#8212; but I don&#8217;t share that enough with everyone else. I&#8217;ve started to pay more attention to the web site visitor statistics, and those statistics have inspired me. (Inspired by statistics? Maybe I&#8217;m revealing too much of the computer geek in me. \ud83d\ude42 I do, afterall, support myself by working as a computer programmer when I&#8217;m not posting poetry, commenting on poetry, reading poetry, researching poets, or maintaining the web site.) <\/p>\n<p><em>Since the beginning of 2008 (when I first started tracking web statistics), the Poetry Chaikhana has had visits from <strong>222 different countries and territories<\/strong>!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/images\/world_visits.gif\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 381px;\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier to list the few countries that haven&#8217;t visited the site recently than it is to list those countries that have&#8230; but it&#8217;s much more fun to list those that have! So, here goes! In order of visitor traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nUnited States<br \/>\nIndia<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom<br \/>\nCanada<br \/>\nPakistan<br \/>\nAustralia<br \/>\nPhilippines<br \/>\nGermany<br \/>\nIreland<br \/>\nNetherlands<br \/>\nItaly<br \/>\nTurkey<br \/>\nFrance<br \/>\nSpain<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates<br \/>\nNorway<br \/>\nMalaysia<br \/>\nNew Zealand<br \/>\nSweden<br \/>\nBrazil<br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nChina<br \/>\nIndonesia<br \/>\nMexico<br \/>\nPoland<br \/>\nBelgium<br \/>\nJapan<br \/>\nRomania<br \/>\nIran<br \/>\nBangladesh<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia<br \/>\nIsrael<br \/>\nBulgaria<br \/>\nSwitzerland<br \/>\nGreece<br \/>\nRussia<br \/>\nSouth Korea<br \/>\nDenmark<br \/>\nPortugal<br \/>\nFinland<br \/>\nHong Kong<br \/>\nEgypt<br \/>\nTaiwan<br \/>\nThailand<br \/>\nArgentina<br \/>\nAustria<br \/>\nHungary<br \/>\nCzech Republic<br \/>\nChile<br \/>\nSerbia<br \/>\nCroatia<br \/>\nUkraine<br \/>\nColombia<br \/>\nKuwait<br \/>\nPuerto Rico<br \/>\nSlovenia<br \/>\nMauritius<br \/>\nMorocco<br \/>\nSlovakia<br \/>\nQatar<br \/>\nTrinidad and Tobago<br \/>\nVietnam<br \/>\nSri Lanka<br \/>\nLithuania<br \/>\nPeru<br \/>\nOman<br \/>\nJordan<br \/>\nLebanon<br \/>\nMacedonia [FYROM]<br \/>\nBosnia and Herzegovina<br \/>\nBahrain<br \/>\nNepal<br \/>\nVenezuela<br \/>\nEstonia<br \/>\nAfghanistan<br \/>\nCosta Rica<br \/>\nKenya<br \/>\nLatvia<br \/>\nAzerbaijan<br \/>\nNigeria<br \/>\nIceland<br \/>\nMalta<br \/>\nJamaica<br \/>\nGeorgia<br \/>\nCyprus<br \/>\nEcuador<br \/>\nPanama<br \/>\nDominican Republic<br \/>\nAlgeria<br \/>\nTunisia<br \/>\nAlbania<br \/>\nGuatemala<br \/>\nKazakhstan<br \/>\nMaldives<br \/>\nIraq<br \/>\nSyria<br \/>\nLuxembourg<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nBhutan<br \/>\nUruguay<br \/>\nPalestinian Territories<br \/>\nYemen<br \/>\nArmenia<br \/>\nGuam<br \/>\nBahamas<br \/>\nBermuda<br \/>\nMoldova<br \/>\nSudan<br \/>\nHonduras<br \/>\nBelarus<br \/>\nLibya<br \/>\nEl Salvador<br \/>\nTanzania<br \/>\nBarbados<br \/>\nFiji<br \/>\nCambodia<br \/>\nBrunei<br \/>\nSerbia and Montenegro<br \/>\nBolivia<br \/>\nEthiopia<br \/>\nUzbekistan<br \/>\nSenegal<br \/>\nMyanmar [Burma]<br \/>\nNetherlands Antilles<br \/>\nU.S. Virgin Islands<br \/>\nBotswana<br \/>\nBelize<br \/>\nCote d&#8217;Ivoire<br \/>\nUganda<br \/>\nTajikistan<br \/>\nNicaragua<br \/>\nMacau<br \/>\nCameroon<br \/>\nSuriname<br \/>\nGuyana<br \/>\nMontenegro<br \/>\nMongolia<br \/>\nKyrgyzstan<br \/>\nAruba<br \/>\nNamibia<br \/>\nReunion<br \/>\nCayman Islands<br \/>\nMozambique<br \/>\nSaint Lucia<br \/>\nNorthern Mariana Islands<br \/>\nGrenada<br \/>\nZimbabwe<br \/>\nJersey<br \/>\nAntigua and Barbuda<br \/>\nAmerican Samoa<br \/>\nParaguay<br \/>\nDominica<br \/>\nIsle of Man<br \/>\nGuernsey<br \/>\nNiger<br \/>\nZambia<br \/>\nSaint Vincent and the Grenadines<br \/>\nMalawi<br \/>\nGibraltar<br \/>\nLaos<br \/>\nSaint Kitts and Nevis<br \/>\nGambia<br \/>\nRwanda<br \/>\nSeychelles<br \/>\nGuadeloupe<br \/>\nBritish Virgin Islands<br \/>\nMonaco<br \/>\nPapua New Guinea<br \/>\nHaiti<br \/>\nFaroe Islands<br \/>\nTurks and Caicos Islands<br \/>\nDjibouti<br \/>\nCuba<br \/>\nMauritania<br \/>\nMadagascar<br \/>\nAngola<br \/>\nMartinique<br \/>\nNew Caledonia<br \/>\nEritrea<br \/>\nMali<br \/>\nSolomon Islands<br \/>\nTurkmenistan<br \/>\nTogo<br \/>\nBenin<br \/>\nMicronesia<br \/>\nAnguilla<br \/>\nFrench Polynesia<br \/>\nCape Verde<br \/>\nSierra Leone<br \/>\nBurkina Faso<br \/>\nLesotho<br \/>\nAndorra<br \/>\nCongo [DRC]<br \/>\nAland Islands<br \/>\nSwaziland<br \/>\nComoros<br \/>\nLiberia<br \/>\nVanuatu<br \/>\nBurundi<br \/>\nVatican City<br \/>\nTimor-Leste<br \/>\nSomalia<br \/>\nTonga<br \/>\nLiechtenstein<br \/>\nKiribati<br \/>\nGuinea<br \/>\nFalkland Islands [Islas Malvinas]<br \/>\nEquatorial Guinea<br \/>\nCook Islands<br \/>\nGreenland<br \/>\nPalau<br \/>\nNorfolk Island<br \/>\nGabon<br \/>\nChristmas Island<br \/>\nMontserrat<br \/>\nSaint Helena<br \/>\nSan Marino<br \/>\nFrench Southern Territories<br \/>\nSamoa<br \/>\nFrench Guiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Pretty much every country and territory in the world.  We&#8217;re just awaiting visits from Greenland and a few countries in central Africa.  Oh, and what about you scientists down in Antarctica?<\/p>\n<p>==<\/p>\n<p>We make up quite a community, don&#8217;t we? Through the Poetry Chaikhana, we are all connected to every part of this planet we share.<\/p>\n<p>The next time a poem touches that warm ember deep in your chest, and your thoughts stop, and your mind clears, and a quiet smile spreads across your face&#8230; reach out and feel who else on this planet is feeling exactly the same thing. Could be someone who wears different clothes or different colored skin, someone who speaks with a different accent or an entirely different language, someone who sits or kneels or bows to worship. Reach out and recognize that person as a brother or sister who, like us all, is walking through the human journey, pausing occasionally to sing songs of the Divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From it&#8217;s beginning, I have given the Poetry Chaikhana web site the tagline &#8220;Sacred Poetry from Around the World.&#8221; I am regularly reminded that the Poetry Chaikhana community is also from around the world &#8212; but I don&#8217;t share that enough with everyone else. 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