Every post that glides into our Reader offers us a fresh perspective and an opportunity to peer into another blogger’s mind. We’re invited to enter new worlds, and examine the shapes, angles, and textures of the blogging craft itself. This week, once again, the diversity of the WorldPress.com community thrilled us. The three posts we selected are powerful examples of the different ends to which writers use their blogs.

Lines

No serum

can replace the living

drawn in these lines –

this is no paint-by-number

out of a box,

but an original,

a hand-drawn facsimile

We take great pains to project a perfect image of ourselves with our words, our clothes, and our manners, often forgetting that the cracks — big or small — in our facades reveal just as much about our true selves. In “Lines,” a poem of few words and great insight, Melody calls on…