Happy New Year 2024!

May this one be our best yet!

Dearest friends, subscribers and poetry fans,

I wanted to take a moment to say a big THANK YOU! to all of you for voting with your attention to my poetry. When I found Substack in the spring of 2022, I thought this might be a place I can start finally publishing my work and bypass all the naysayers, the gatekeepers, the narrative controllers who want to wrestle poetry to the ground, knock the wind out of it and make it submit to the flavor of the month.

I honestly didn’t think anyone would be interested in my work and thought I’d publish it anyway and let the chips fall where they may. I put the word out on my Twitter (yes, I’m still calling it Twitter!) page and lo and behold, some kind friends started subscribing. Eventually, I started meeting/interacting with other writers and poets on Substack who’s work I admire very much and am even collaborating with another dear friend I met here who’s helping me design and publish my first book of poetry. I’m up to 160 subscribers now, and for that I’m truly grateful. Some of you didn’t even like poetry to begin with, and am humbled and thrilled that you’re subscribers as well!

Being on this platform has boosted my creativity in so many unforeseen ways and has introduced me to so many crusaders of creativity and truth. As we set sail into another year, may this one be filled with more Health, Wealth and Happiness for us than ever before.

Thank you all so much.

Wishing you the happiest of New Years!

— Victory Palace