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I'm sure, as Elder Wyvern indicated in the sticky thread, he'll get to the Applications just as soon as he can. It's strange how sometimes real life can hit so hard, especially when it contains college classes! On the other hand... This IS very good. Perhaps I should pay Wyvern to stall acceptance a bit longer so we get ANOTHER installment...

cosmic! Isn't it amazing that the life in a seed knows it's timing and has the courage to seek its destiny no matter what? Even when slain by untimely frost, there is something heroic about refusing NOT to grow... Keep 'em comin', big guy.

An excellent poem indeed! Too bad it was stolen. The original lyrics to Dream Theater's A Fortune In Lies song, from the "When Dream and Day Unite (1989)" Album may be found Here

The author deleted the original post, which was "Lines in the Sand" by the Dream Theater. Zool's excellent feedback mades more sense if you read the original work, which may be found Here

Reflects on the irony of the posted petulance at not receiving replies to a plagarized work.... "The Mirror" lyrics originally created by The Dream Theater. Find it here.

This was originally written by Bruce Dickinson on his Balls to Picasso (1994) album, song: Tears Of The Dragon. Find it here

Originally Posted by AMORPHIS in Am Universum (2001) Lyrics available here

This was originally posted at Poetry.com by Paulina Mabayoje. It was a Grand Prize Winner. Her entry is here.

This is really really good at conveying the feelings. What I call a 'gut' poem. The last line, for me, gives emotional echos of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce when the U.S. Calvary caught he and his tribe 16 miles from the Canadian border and he made a speech which ended, "I will fight no more." That's gotta be one of the most poignant cries in the English language. Big huggles

I like this, from the play on words in the title, to the way you wrote it. The need to love, the need to want - very well said. Puts responsibility for your emotions with you - without denying their incredible power and desire. Good job.

It's nice given the tenor of the music played here of late (to include my own), to have a raucous joyous celebration of love like that. You still da man.

Happy Birthday Z!

heh. I read this in another way. I get a vision of a sister watching her brother fly away on Icarus wings. She'll be able to live off the visions of where he's going and what he's seeing - even if he crashed into the sea and drowned just off shore. Sometimes Dreams are more life-changing than Realities.

That's pretty clever!!!

Another gem. This gives words to some of the fights with Depression I've endured... Good job!

This is timely, time for a bump. Reformatting old poems is a labor of love with many golden nuggets found - Like this one.

Before we met, I slept all night. I love that line...

As a side-project, I'm trying to go back through the various Pen areas and removed the extra blank lines that the conversion from Ezboard inserted. Ran across this wonderful warped gem. heh!

This commentary was added by a Visitor to the Old Site: Saphron21. As a sidenote, Dragcor and excedrin are the same person. -Peredhil

Shrugs and hugs Deadly Nightshade. It really doesn't matter to me much one way or another - the reason I became an Ancient is that I realized I can't give the Pen and its membership the time and response y'all deserve. The thing that impresses me, and that I applaud, is that Deadly Nightshade decided to brainstorm an idea to help the Pen and had the courage to post it. That shines. It takes courage to post ideas like this, and not take the discussion of your idea as discussion of you. Great job in trying to make the Pen a better place. No ideas are bad as long as we realize the person suggesting it wants to help. Hugs again. Thank you Deadly Nightshade!

hmmm. I agree with Vlad about the spelling - but don't ever worry about that until AFTER you've gotten the poem down. You have the core images of a neat idea here. This could be the introduction to a short story even. If you went back and reworked it a little, you'd really have a polished gem. As it is, it already sparkles to me. I like poems of this nature, so maybe I'm a bit biased. Good job!

It feels that way sometimes. You want to give but no one wants to slow down to receive! You want to listen, but they may hurt so much, they don't know how to talk. Sometimes just quietly being there, so they don't feel alone in the chaotic swirls of their life, is a great gift. Hugs

THAT was NEAT.

Heh, it feels like that sometimes... The Morning Ritual He intones dramatically. Hehe. I like.

Could... But this gets them into their control area so they can see all the nifty options. Plus I really don't want to post names. Peredhil posts the public loser list: The following members... Plus if I sent them a PM... it would bounce an email into the Admin account... I'm just kinda thinking, it's nice when the Membership takes care of their personal responsibilities, and free the Elders to moderate Website-as-a-whole stuff.