Hello Brisby, I'm grateful to you for helping to make this platform an enjoyable, friendly place. I have so much fun, getting to just be myself and 'meet' other people. Steemit is a big universe. Such variety, so many opportunities, and then there's you :) Really, I don't see the dark spots. I see the bright lights. Your poetry 'contest'--to me it wasn't a contest, it was an invitation to participate.
The poem was from the heart. It didn't just speak for the Irish who can't cut peat, or who couldn't eat potatoes. It speaks for everyone, all of us, who are asked to defer to a symbolic Big House. I'm so glad it struck a note with many here.
I spot you from time to time welcoming newcomers. I have to hunt for you, but I do find you. See you around here on bananafish. I'll try not to miss whatever it is that you are sponsoring. Sometimes, though, I get distracted.
Be well and happy
Your friend, AG