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Site Announcements / Re: Merry Christmas and a happ...
Last post by liam - January 16, 2023, 10:21:38 PM
its nice to see the site back, i hope everyone will return and post when they can. 👍🏻

happy new to everyone!
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avatar_Chris
Site Announcements / Merry Christmas and a happy Ne...
Last post by Chris - December 21, 2022, 09:56:56 PM
On behalf of myself and @cheeky~k8 - Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all!

We hope to see you in 2023, as we move forward with P&A! Online.
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avatar_Chris
Site Announcements / December, 12th 2022: P&A! Onli...
Last post by Chris - December 12, 2022, 05:48:22 PM
The reincarnation of Poetry & Art! Online site was short-lived back in 2015. Unfortunately, a mixture of personal health issues and costs of maintaining the site became difficult.

I personally didn't lose interest and I do believe there's room for a site like P&A! Online to help encourage the creative side of individuals. Whilst social media is great, it can be a less productive place to share your muse, and ultimately we're designed from the ground up to not only offer honest feedback but also provide a supportive place to mould our talents and grow further.

Why join? Or come back?

Admittedly, there's little to encourage old members to return, and this is even discouraging to new members.

Those that remember the site's beginning will hopefully remember the spirit which united us and, even saw the site grow to 1,000 members. Back in the earlier days of the internet with a flourishing support network forming. I believe with patience, support and care that a community like ours can grow as a place to help each other.

I fully own the mistakes I made before, yet I hope we can encourage old and new members to join in.

This time round, P&A! Online won't be going anywhere.

Thank you for your support.
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avatar_stewart alexander
Poetry / ALL I KNOW IS
Last post by stewart alexander - March 03, 2016, 12:57:14 PM
I like this too buddy...  more of a lament, emotive and deep...
 
lovely stuff
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avatar_HomesickAlienPoet
Poetry / ALL I KNOW IS
Last post by HomesickAlienPoet - February 27, 2016, 01:21:57 AM
This is powerful and haunting.  My favorite lines:  


 
 
like some paper thin walls that come back to echo , to reverberate, not fade
 
that dripping sink, our first place, no longer a comfort, my fist through a wall
 
my way to recall, a few minutes more, just to lie with you, in the bed, we made




One minor grammatic/spelling quibble
 
Quote from: mperry date=1455562087my right to saver
   


Is to change \"saver\"  to \"savor.\"
#6
avatar_HomesickAlienPoet
Poetry / Time, Rent & Taxes
Last post by HomesickAlienPoet - February 27, 2016, 01:16:53 AM
Time is a wife-beater

the great world eater

who batters us

& scatters us

even when he pulls

the punches


Men make monsters

not nearly as frightening

as the matchstick-thin

man with a sickle

who kills us with waiting


Sometime he takes

those young enough

to think themselves immune

while the remainder linger

eroding between the tick

of remorseless clock hands


Death is coming

it is the death

of fat accusing fingers

and frog-faced men

who kill us with drudgery

and a lack of imagination


We rent these bodies

the shell of an intellect

that cannot conceive

a better way than rent

taxes, horseless carriages

that carry us anywhere

but where we wish to go


We are all Cain

We are all Abel

We kill the brother

and are killed by our brother

Inherit violence from

the father

Leach nourishment

from the mother


 
In a world of dust and deserts,

sunlight, snakes and sisters

insects and mountains of garbage

where rain falls on the just

and unjust, on babes and lechers

in homes that become prisons

and streets that become home...


are all hopes false?

or is hope the only cure?

the seed from which we can grow

a better end


I don't know if we ascend

into long halls of light

or descend into endless

tunnels of the night

Maybe its better that way

If all we know for certain

is all we have is today
#7
avatar_HomesickAlienPoet
Poetry / Smoke Signals
Last post by HomesickAlienPoet - February 27, 2016, 01:14:56 AM
Thanks mperry.  The work of the Beats, neo-beats and other wrtiers like bukowski who share a similar vision are among my favorites.  Kerrouac, Ginsy, D. A. Levy, Tom Waits, the aforementioned Bukowski, etc.
#8
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Poetry / ALL I KNOW IS
Last post by mperry - February 15, 2016, 06:48:07 PM
ALL I KNOW IS


A light once possessed, this want, had a common thread, we begin

to unravel, left with lingered thoughts of you, once made me insane

deep, inside my veins, you, came like a drug to flow under my skin


when the conditions were right, comes a perfect storm, so multi-layered

my right to saver, you, an impression of, a deepest void, my failure to nigate
 
left only, a need, a fix, my heart was fire, steeped like a craving, not shared
 
as your memory differs from mine, you and I remember, in our own way to explain

the story of a love now having gone cold, left behind, of what was, the image seared
 
of me watching you go, my eyes are left wide, for all I know is gone, the hurt retained
 
like some paper thin walls that come back to echo , to reverberate, not fade
 
that dripping sink, our first place, no longer a comfort, my fist through a wall
 
my way to recall, a few minutes more, just to lie with you, in the bed, we made


as your memory differs from mine, you and I remember, in our own way to explain

the story of a love now having gone cold, left behind, of what was, the image seared
 
of me watching you go, my eyes are left wide, for all I know is gone, the hurt retained
 
By Michael Perry
#9
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Poetry / FOR THE DEAD
Last post by mperry - January 31, 2016, 08:54:43 PM
Hi Cordelia
 
 
 
Thank you for stopping by to comment, I appreciate it very much!.  regards Mike
#10
avatar_Call me Cordelia
Poetry / FOR THE DEAD
Last post by Call me Cordelia - January 29, 2016, 11:58:53 PM
I really enjoy the deceptive simplicity of this!