{"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\u2019s beginning, I have given the Poetry Chaikhana web site the tagline \u201cSacred Poetry from Around the World.\u201d I am regularly reminded that the Poetry Chaikhana community is also from around the world \u2014 but I don\u2019t share that enough with everyone else. I\u2019ve started to pay more attention to the web site visitor statistics, and those statistics have inspired me. (Inspired by statistics? Maybe I\u2019m revealing too much of the computer geek in me. \ud83d\ude42 I do, afterall, support myself by working as a computer programmer when I\u2019m 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\u2019s much easier to list the few countries that haven\u2019t visited the site recently than it is to list those countries that have\u2026 but it\u2019s much more fun to list those that have! So, here goes! In order of visitor traffic\u2026<\/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\u2019Ivoire<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>\u2026Pretty much every country and territory in the world.  We\u2019re 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\u2019t 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\u2026 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\u2019s beginning, I have given the Poetry Chaikhana web site the tagline \u201cSacred Poetry from Around the World.\u201d I am regularly reminded that the Poetry Chaikhana community is also from around the world \u2014 but I don\u2019t share that enough with everyone else. 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