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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 07/13/20 A woman's manifesto by Shannon McEwen Ever the martyr and never the b*tch Would you be happy then? Everything in its proper place Tears fill this empty space Between here and then And back again The perfect woman, the perfect wife Silently cutting with tension’s knife Walking through shadows And smiling in place Plastic expressions on a plastic face Or never the martyr and always the b*tch Anger builds and emotions roll The constant conflict takes its toll Stand up for what we believe is right Win every battle, forever a fight And when exactly did we lose sight? That life is life and I am me And once you promised That you would see Hold my hand and open up And face the facts And beyond all else Act. 10/20/2011 Visit Shannon McEwen's Library A woman's manifesto Copyright © 2020

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