• Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.

    This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.

    Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…

    • Don't give offence
    • Don't take offence

    We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.

    You can dismiss this notice by clicking the "x" box

Poetry heart

The World Between the Words
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, they say.
Fiercer
Faster
Forgetting panic and pain and punishment until
Only good persists.

Proximity makes the heart remember
Renew
Rekindle
Reviving hate and heartache and helplessness until
Only awful remains

Or

Teaches us to resist
To speak
To act out love
To require love
To expect others to treat us as
Our full self, whole self—
Worth time, energy, respect—

Never to be trampled under the façade of concern that
Compels conformity
Again.
 
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