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Community News Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025 by Gavin M Roy After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org. What you need to know: * No accounts will be automatically created * No content will be automatically transferred * When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform. Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021 by V. Blake Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks! Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020 by V. Blake Hope you and yours are well. A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019 by V. Blake ..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike. So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard! Older News

Poem of the Day for 06/13/26 Appeal to the Captor by Bruce W Niedt Dear Editor, It has been six months since I sent you my poem. I’ve received not a word, not a ransom note, not even a stanza cut off and sent as a threat. Is my poem alive and well? When it’s returned to me, will it have lost its baby fat, appearing instead as wiry, muscular, concise? Or has it undergone some metamorphosis, a bird, perhaps, feathering its nest with string and self-addressed stamped envelopes? Has it ensconced itself in your in-box? Has it transformed to sconces itself, like those eerie ones in La Belle et Le Bète, the gilt-coated arms that move with you as you cross the room, shadows shifting, changing the lighting of walls and words? Send me some word, a photograph of it holding yesterday’s newspaper. A tape of it, reading itself back to me. Even a rejection slip – you pick the format: wrapped around a rock through my window, letters cut and pasted from magazines. Until then, I await the day when it appears, smiling wanly at my doorstep, or singing choruses to the world on your page. 03/24/2002 Visit Bruce W Niedt's Library Appeal to the Captor Copyright © 2026

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