Also be sure to signup for our Poem of the Day emailed directly to your inbox, by clicking Here.

Community News 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! Hey - 06/11/2018 by V. Blake I hope you're having a good day. You're an excellent writer. Keep on doin' what you're doin'. Everything is Broken - 02/06/2018 by V. Blake As I write this, I don't actually know if it will post successfully. Let's see. Sorry to report that the owner of this website has abandoned it. We owe him eternal gratitude for all the work that went into building it in the first place, and for continuing to foot the bill that keeps it online at all. That said: we apologize for the bugs, but there's nothing we can do to fix them. CURRENT MEMBERS: Keep steady backups of your poetry. And everything else--that's just practical advice for a digital world. In case you didn't realize, private messaging does not work. Your messages are not reaching their recipients. The moderators can pick poems of the day. That's about it for our powers. APPLICANTS: I am sorry. Site errors will prevent me from making you a member. I promise that we'd have welcomed you to this community if we could. -- I guess that's it. Hope you're having a good day. Older News

Poem of the Day for 09/23/20 Too Experienced. by Frank Lee Feels like teenage love, revisited. We met at a bar, when I was feeling down, was love at first site, or so i thought, she was tipsy in a short dress, blonde hair, blue eyes, just my type... (or so i thought). She disappeared into the night, I finished off too many jack and cokes. It was probably the best night of the summer, downtown, chasing shots with mixed drinks. I woke up on a couch in the suburbs, too early to recall how or who I had gone home with. I scoured the phone for details, and remembered our brief encounter. Public display of affection, before we could even say hello. Usually, I never follow up, but I had a good feeling about her, and her obscure name. Early morning, next morning, text message. going against everything i stand for, something corny, like, I wish you didn't leave last night She responded right away, again, something corny, like, me too I let her be for a few days, then called about a week later. I had an empty house and expected her to be willing. Stole a fancy bottle of wine from my brother from napa valley, and poured a few bottles, was expecting her to be willing. she was nothing of the sort, we talked all night, and it was refreshing... she had never left the state, never went to college, father died a few years ago, was stuck in a dead end job, she thought of packing up, going somewhere, didn't know how to say goodbye... even though she had no one or nothing to say goodbye to. she was not a party girl, and her hair was not a natural blonde, her eyes, were not blue, they were green, and she sipped her one glass of wine as i finished off the entire bottle. She was nothing like what she seemed and I was obsessed. I played it cool, and didn't give her a call for a few weeks.. we played this stupid new age game of cat and mouse with the cell phone, strategically texting carefully thought words back and forth, and eventually she put out in a car in front of her mom's house. it felt like i was a teenager again... the forbidden flesh and the heavy breathing, the foggy windows and the shame when it was finished. she apologized the next day, claiming she'd never done that before, said we needed to take it slower... we had long, deep conversations over the phone, and i tried to be a 'gentleman'... I've never been very good with relationships, i had a hard time lying to her and to myself... I have had more nights with strangers than i have with lovers and I could have been her first stranger (or lover) She was the type to sit back and judge when we went out at night, she would sip her beer and talk about all the people in the bar... what happened to the free spirit in the short dress? the blonde hair, the blue eyes... my type. 'sometimes', she said, 'there isn't a perfect time for someone to come into your life. but i'm glad you did' I didn't know how to feel or what I wanted, it had been so long since i wanted to be liked... depression has a funny way of hurting the people around you, the people who care about you, the people who want to care about you... she said she liked me, but she hated that, because she didn't want to take the risk... i thought it was probably the most intelligent thing i heard in a while i thought maybe i was too experienced for her, but the more i think about it i'm starting to think she may be too experienced for me 10/20/2009 Visit Frank Lee's Library Too Experienced. Copyright © 2020

Top Rated Member Poetry Pick up the Pen - Maria Francesca Being OK - Sarah Graves We've lost our way, and the will to fight for it. - Johnny Crimson Saturday Night, Huddled Against The Masses - David Maurice Click Here for More Top Rated Poetry 10 Random Member Favorites I Love What You've Done With Your Hair - Alison McKenzie Under Tuscan Skies - JD Clay Whisper Silence - Rula Shin Like Pages Torn from Gideon Bibles - V. Blake DEVEREUX THRILLS, IN WINTER - W. Mahlon Purdin preservation in ash - Marina Dawn Once in that Blue Moon - Maureen Glaude the penultimate frontier - Laura Doom ! i - Ava Blu There is a room inside every room. - Ashok Sharda Click Here for More Random Favorites 10 Most Recently Posted Poems September 21, 2020 - Chris Sorrenti Burning Flower - Matthew Sharp Glauburg-Stockheim - Richard Vince We've lost our way, and the will to fight for it. - Johnny Crimson Comparisons - Philippa Jane Characteristic - Dane Campbell mermaids - Ava Blu Wailing Works - Brian Francis We've Made History - Thomas K. Hunt never never - Peter Humphreys Click Here for All Recent Activity