Yes. It’s been ONE FULL YEAR since I started writing Hello Universe. What an amazing ride!

Thanks for being a part of this journey with me. Today’s edition is a year-in-review of this newsletter. I started on this journey as a fluke, thinking that if I could do 10 weeks without a break, that would be great. But here we are, 52 weeks in, not a single week missed. Woohoo!

That’s what today’s poem is about. Here we go, in 3… 2… 1!

I sit and write,
I type and type.
Word by word it starts.

I sit and write.
Through noise and quiet.
In tiny little parts.

✍✍✍

I find some time.
I sculpt a rhyme,
about some jokes and memes.

I find some time,
and find that I'm
creating new routines.

✍✍✍

So, thanks my friend!
for reading through.
these poems - fifty two!

And thanks my friend!
I wouldn't do this
if it weren't for YOU!

🙏🙏🙏

That’s it! Thanks for reading Hello Universe every week. Your thoughts, comments, and messages motivate me to keep sharing this whimsical poetry experiment out into the world every Tuesday. Scroll down for a mini year-in-review of Hello Universe. It might feature your words too 😇.

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Year-in-review:

This week, I’m sharing a few Hello Universe moments that made me happy over the last year. Hope you like these too!

TOP POSTS:

Here are the 3 posts on Hello Universe that gave me a lot of joy to create, and were loved by readers like you!

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HYPE

"It's great!", they say "The best we've seen!" "The greatest that has ever been!" . "The nicest thing", they shout at me, "that you will ever get to see!" . "Go spend your cash and check it out!" "We know what we're talking about!" . "If you don't do it…

a year ago · 15 likes · 1 comment · Punit Thakkar

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Ever since the pandemic hit, I have coped with it by trying to create stuff. This urge to cope was behind my 2 month spurt of trying to make music, my 100 Day poetry challenge, and some silly drawings I would make from time to time. In today’s edition, I am sharing with you a poem along with some silly drawings. Against the amount of suffering the world …

a year ago · 14 likes · 1 comment · Punit Thakkar

Hello Universe

My future

Today’s poem is a marker in time. Let’s get started in 3… 2… 1…

4 months ago · 20 likes · 4 comments · Punit Thakkar

REVIEWS:

You may have spotted a link in the footer of my emails where I ask you to rate the poems I write. It leads to a Google form where you can share a rating and leave some feedback.

Here are the ratings and some feedback that readers have shared. 96.8% of the ratings are the top 2 options, so that feels fantastic!

My sincere thanks to everyone who takes the time out and shares their feedback. You can share your feedback too by clicking here. It makes my day to see comments and feedback from readers like you. Speaking of which…

SUBSCRIBERS:

171 subscribers receive Hello Universe every week in their inbox!

As you can see, over the past year I’ve mostly had steady growth in the number of subs, supported by a couple of boosts when I somehow wrote some particularly great poems. I would love to know how you found Hello Universe and subbed to it. Drop it down in the comments below or as a reply to this email.

Every week when I write to you, I imagine that I’m performing in a room full of 171 people. It energizes me and motivates me to write better!

Hope you liked this year in review. I love hearing from my readers, so please leave a comment, which one was your favorite poem in the past year.

See you next week!

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