The CyberPoet’s Niche Newsletter

Volume One; Issue One April 19, 1999


Welcome

Dear members,

Thank you for being a part of this wonderful club at Yahoo entitled the CyberPoet’s Niche. The scope of this Club is to gather together a wide range of poets from around the globe to discuss and share their work and great poetry. It is my intention for this Club, as well as my Co-founder, Angel-Pie to present a cozy atmosphere where you can share your poetic style and exchange ideas with other poets. Angel-Pie and I wish to make this your Club. If anybody has any suggestions for the club or wishes to contribute any columns to this Newletter, please contact the Founders of the Club.

.....Thank You,

Mary Gonzalez (Founder of the CyberPoet’s Niche)



The cyberPoet Niche Club now has its’ own webpage. You can view our homepage at the following address: http://www.geocities.com/cyberpoetsniche. I would like to give thanks to Angel-Pie for her help in giving the CyberPoet’s Niche Club its first official website.

The CyberPoet’s Niche Club’s website features the scope of this Club and has a section posting all Club news. It also has a FAQ section where members can post questions about copyright and publication of their work. The Website also has a section of the Club’s familiar writings, as well as a section of poetry related links.


Every month there is a new Group Poem at the CyberPoet’s Niche Club. This poem is a special poem woven by each of the members of the CyberPoet’s Niche. For March, the Club composed this poem:


~ Legacy ~

Deep in the Winter of my waning youth
My heart was frozen in time...    (Mgonzalez01)

 

Pain grasped with icey fingers and
held me captive turning my sunshine smile to stone...    (RobinMin)

 

and dashing the mirror promise of inheritance
of my mother's and my mother's mother's face
upon that unfeeling rocky place
the cold hope lost recast my countenance    (AngelPie_Mouse)

 

And Assessing Time's handiwork with care
My eyes have been deceived all these years
For my soul until this moment did not register
These deep lines and markings and so I fear    (Mgonzalez01)

 

Who am I in this making?
Who am I in this unmaking?
Who am I in this taking?
Who am I in this untaking?
What will I become?
and what leave behind?
What whispers do I hear
down the long corridor of mothers?
Were there answers to questions,
the universe would be known in full;
but there are no answers only a forward pull
to a mirror ripe with suggestions.    (AngelPie_Mouse)

 

Perplexity gazes back adjacent
to this sudden clue. Standing
and pondering as my waning youth
passes before me..I moved from
the mirror with its poignant
views, and lived life.    (Robinmin)


The Editor wishes to thank all participants who contributed to this poem.

(For more information about the Interactive or Group Poem, including why we do it, click here.)



We presently have 27 members at the CyberPoet’s Niche. We have Chat Night every Wednesdays at 9PM Eastern. The founder, Mary, is happy to inform her members that we are number 18 on the Poetry Clubs at Yahoo. She is striving to be number 1! If you have a friend you like to invite please do so.

Mary Gonzalez
Editor


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