You in the daylight
Dreamed of summer nights long gone.
Winter surprised you.

I can't find enough peace for tears...

But there's pain.

Sth. drove me back here to share the pain,

Dunno if I can find the time *and patience* to stay around.

"dealers who said they were through with dealin'..."

The event, wherever it's going to be, will be in our hearts, or it won't be at all - even if it takes place...

Dear Heather

this morning's
glory holds
no glory.

Pls. allow for cryin'

Beautiful Losers what is a circle without a center? a collection of words nobody ever fathoms, a feel, a forum, we. the future will be: to forget the unforgettable. you forgot me. good at forgettin' you'll forget Leonard. will this beautiful losers' circle be unbroken, now the center broke, now the...

I wrote something, and it got lost.

A word starting with an 'F'.

Say a prayer for the cowboy
His mare's run away
And he'll walk til he finds her
His darling, his stray
but the river's in flood
and the roads are awash
and the bridges break up
in the panic of loss.

Bye, Leonard!

More than five years after her death I can feel free to reveal that the photographer of this poem was our late great friend Sue Stark, the beautiful Spirit of the chat room.

Some still feel the loss.

Hi Chris,

could you provide your translation as a text as well?

Thanks and good luck
tom

Margaret, I can't agree more.

Thank you all.

Linda, I don't know about the Laureate returning? Was Byron absent as well?

Cate, I don't mind, of course not. The Lounge once was a nice and cozy spot before we all deserted it for a couple of years. I guess it still could be, but...

Cheers
tom

sailors in bars

inn
team
mate
friend
ship

I first posted this a while ago (what's four years!) elsewhere

tom

say hello to some
say good bye to the others
embrace oblivion

It's not the content alone that makes a poem, but it's the details, and that's where this attempt definitely falls short. Laurie's remarks are to the point, but I want to add a remark on the line breaks: They don't constitute a pattern, they're arbitrary. Artbitrary linebreaks, however, usually indi...