• 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 stay

The World Between the Words
Please consider upgrading…
Invest in You. Get Full Membership now.
We’ve descended mountains,
You and I, and
Entered the valley.
Not verdant. Not alive.
Sugar sand stretches, bitter,
Sterile white,
Corpse of the past,
Littered with a hundred voices,
Whispers of regret, fear, condemnation.
Unwanted.
Unloved.
Unworthy.
Unclean.
Serpents watch.
Scales glisten under heat.
Pain pulses, throats close, eyes throb.
Valley of Death.
Unwritten, the rule states
We cannot go back—only forward.
Through your wasteland, I will stay with you.
Stay with me through mine.
 
Click to expand...
You must log in or register to reply here.

Café Life Tag Cloud

agent author authors blog book books cafe calls for submissions challenge character christmas competition conferences contest creative writing creativity editing fantasy feedback fiction inspiration life literature litopia motivation music new new member novel philosophy poetry publisher publishing questions reading review romance self-publishing sentence shakespeare short story stories story storytelling technology words world writer writers writing

Similar threads

Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day An artist's duty is rather to stay....
Replies
1
Views
263
Pamela Jo
Pamela Jo

Latest Articles By Litopians

  • Falcon Theory
    “So,” said Goethe to his friend Johann Peter Eckermann, “let us call it a Novelle, for what i ...
  • The Joy of Lit Mags
    While my first novel is tentatively making its way towards agents who already have too much to read, ...
  • Advertising and Social Media
    There has been much discussion in writing circles about how much a writer has to self-promote these ...
  • Future Abstract: Fights at Night
    SATIRE ALERT: The following abstract is entirely fictional and does not represent actual events or s ...
  • Great Novel Openings Quiz
    As writers, we all know how important it is to grip the reader from the very start. Intriguing, surp ...
  • In The Summertime
    In the early seventies, I had a semi-Afro hairstyle and a shaggy beard. . I thought I looked like th ...
  • Working with a Literary Agent
    The Querying In a previous post I mentioned that I was back in the query trenches. To recap, my earl ...
Back
Top