And maybe by the time you're reading this, the 2016 election is mercifully over.

To quote Walt Kelly's "Pogo" - "Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent."

Anyway, October was a good month for new works on the Blender of Love, the web's first community-based love poetry site. You're invited to share your own heart songs here, and every month a selection of the most interesting ones are republished here to make the monthly digest.

As always, read love share and enjoy,

also this month