Abandoned Writers Cafe

Empty rooms in empty halls.

Accounts silent - long abandoned

the words bankrupt

vacant fronts of creativity 

washed over; hollow; run down.

Verbs sway on rusted hinges

the strains of old poems

cross pages like tumbleweeds.

Profiles shuttered - desolate

unopened for years, collect dust

while messages to forgotten friends

go unanswered

Pinned to a page 

like wanted posters

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I still visit the profiles of old friends here, some that I know seldom if ever, revisit the site. Others are departed from life itself. I revisit their comments on my posts on other sites as well. I'll find one and say, well, wasn't that nice? This is eloquently poignant. I enjoyed and I relate. F.

[Relic]

Thanks for reading, Fabian. :)

[redd Brick Keshner]

As do I. They are like monoliths on a partways barren land.

[FGFRANKLIN]

Well, now I'm new here again. Not really but I'm born again from the crash that wiped out my other account. I just let it go. I'm not here to count brownie points and show off my badges, "We don need no stinkin' badges" (laughing) That was a line from the Humphrey Bogart Movie, The Treasure of Sierra Madre. But I will not go quietly into the good night. But just because I like to write. Cheers, F.

[Relic]

I was wondering why you had another account. Mine is not working well which is why I closed. (now reopened). I'm glad to see you didn't abandon the site. :)

[FGFRANKLIN]

No but the crash was EPIC! I could access my own writing even. I was blocked in half the accounts of my friends. But I'm all good now with the new account. I could still go back to the old one but not going to since it was seemingly targeted. I KNEW some of those people did not block me. I mean, I know them in real life. So...I'll just stick to this account.

[FGFRANKLIN]

That NOT access. Oops.

[Sharon Kim]

Hi Relic,
Truly great read! This really speaks to me as I have come and gone multiple times over the last decade. Life's demands often get in the way and it becomes a push and pull of must do and want to do. I am hoping to get back into writing and be on here more consistently. I miss writing.

[Relic]

Writing can be a great outlet for those that enjoy it. I appreciate your comment, Thank you and I wish you great success in your future posting. :)

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn..]

Relic,

I have been a member of this writer's website more than just a few times, in fact as a member using slight modifications of my current pen/real name, we were always friends ... Why did I leave at the time of each and every time before this fine time of truly hoping to remain onboard the ship of Writerscafe now? ... 'Twas the back then and there daily harassment of Internet-&--Website-Member Trolls as instigators, agitators, and shitass troublemakers ... I do suspect that as such could be, could have been, the cause of all that you so sadly and accurately write of in earnest, hearfelt, excellently written lament just above ... BUT! ... Something has, indeed changed here, for the daily barrage of attacks I once endured here on a daily basis appear to have been dealt with in some fashion of some manner or other, and Writerscafe is on its way to becoming a refreshing writer's respite's place to contemplate and rejuvenate the juices of evey writer's muses, as a site that I find myself always coming back to in hoping to never leave again ... This site has a friendly, family, air about it that those remaining dregs of so called writer's sites do no have, never had in the first damn place ... I am a member of Allpoetry ... What it is, is all stuck up the wazoo of who knows who and who kisses whose a*s in all the right ways, but I shall stay there for the sake of retaining my real and true name, only ... I do hope to make Writerscafe my home of real family and friends ... Thank you for sharing this heartfelt piece that needs to read and understood ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Relic]

I too have an account at all poetry but rarely go there. I've read some very good poems there but I do see favoritism here and there.

Thank you for the comment. :)

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

The hell you say! ... They are so damn busy pulling each others puds and licking each others lower lips that they exhaust themselves in any honest attempts of recognizing Muse, rather than Moose ... LOL! ... A very Click-ishly Snob-ish, Better-than-thou-ish site if ever there was, and there is, for it is called AP, but it should be called APP&P: All Prudish Pricks & P*****s ... Yeah, I'm an a*s who does love to have fun, but I am also a fan of Humanity as that one and only Race of Mankind that does inhabit this Earth: The Human Race, regardless of Politics, Ideology, Complexion, Language, Culture, Education, Physical Appearance, or even attitudes that outright piss me off at times, as a determined to remain Moderate in a world that seems to require that we all choose betwixt one of only two sides, Far Right or Far Left, as though common sense sound reasoning of intelligence based logic no longer holds sway of any day where men meet within that middle ground of sorting things out without resorting violence, shouting, epithets of intolerance, emasculation, or being accused of adding to the polarization of our nation that is not, has never been caused by moderation and calm discussion, but by extremism itself and those who cling so desperately sides of extremism, whilst standing in stupefied awe of wondering why people commit heinous acts of extremism, when in all realistic reality, we live in a society that requires, demands, that they choose between but two sides of two fucked up extremes that leaves no room for those who live, love, and die as Moderates ... Yeah, I'm a gettin' my philosophical plug in, for sure, for sure ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Zoya]

Missing them ol' friends a lil too much today :')

[Relic]

I hear you, Zoya. Thanks for the comment.

[redd Brick Keshner]

That is me to a T. But I always return; some kind of nomadic bard blazing the trail; at least in my thoughts and considerings. But it is true how many if not all of the online poetry sites have gone this way over the last 2 decades. It is sad. And here we are, picking up what remains where we hope to pick up from where we had left off. Thanks for sharing. This is a personally very moving subject matter. /Frederick.

[Relic]

I appreciate your comment, Frederick. Thank you. :)

[Aura]

Wow this is powerful, you clearly depict how an abandoned account is. The title " Abandoned Writers Cafe" makes this seem personal, are you talking about this Writers Cafe and that it is no longer as lively as it once was? I enjoyed reading this... 5 years later :)

[Relic]

Indeed I am, Aura. Many have left here, yet once in a while, I see them pop in after many years. :) Thanks for the read.

[Aura]

You are welcome!

[Carola]

hi tim i thought your 2nd stanza has interesting metaphors.
happy easter
cheerio carola

[Relic]

Thank you, Carola. :)

[Lathen Griffiths]

Always a pleasure to read your work, take care.

Lathen

[Relic]

Thanks so much for your thoughts, Lathen. I couldn't agree more.

[Aluppi Jampur]

This makes me think of dead poets society.

[Relic]

I guess in a way it would. Thanks for the comment, Chrome. :)