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's, Angel-Pie's, 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 Cyber Poet Niche Club now has it's 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 it's 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.

Addendum from the Webmaster:

This month we added five new Showcase Pages for the following members: RomusthePoet, OldCusser, IdentityMatrix, FaeriMuse, and Isitis. These join MGonzalez01, Telescope07, EnchantedWords (crowstouch), ElvenOne, and AngelPie_Mouse, bringing to ten the number of members whose work may be viewed on our website.

We also added copies of the Interactive Poem, the current Challenge Poem (Self-Portrait), new graphics and music, a copy of the Questionnaire (for reprint permission), dozens of new URLs for poetry sites, sites on writing aids, and your homepages, and more pages to our FAQs based on articles your fellow members submitted to the website.

If you are a member of Cyber Poet's Niche Yahoo Chat Club and do not currently have a Showcase Page representing your work on the message board, it because we have not yet received your permission to reprint your work which is necessary to prevent question of copyright infringement. We want you here too. We also welcome your articles and notes and information on websites you think would be of interest to your fellow poets and poetry lovers.

--AngelPie_Mouse, Webmaster

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.   This month the Club composed this poem:

The Kid

He was just a tiny lad Only turned thirteen this day He reeked of aftershave like his dad He looked up to him in everyway Putting on his Kalvin kline jeans He stuck the 9mm Walther PPK in his pocket planning to shoot someone to smithereens....      (Mary Gonzalez)

One last look into mirror, a reflection was born, "The Kid" stands tall, lanky, and the gun hanging there, screaming to come alive. Three jumps down the stairs, quickly looking from room to room, before exiting the front door, a last look he knowing to become seen, only in a dream. One thought came to mind, as passing the cars, people, and homes, why?         (EnchantedWords)

Why? a realized excuse for intimacy, briefly experienced and set aside, forgotten. He was as relevent an outcome as their feelings for each other, Squandered years ago and never renewed. He was tangible only in the sense of liability-- So much for designer label jeans, So much for atheletic shoes, books on the stairs, a bicycle in the front yard, a penciled note for a dentist appointment held fast on the refrigerator door with plastic daisy covered magnet. In all else he was invisible. Had he had more wit about him, he would have worn it like a cloak of invulnerability. Nothing would have touched him as he touched nothing, had never touched anything, had never learned how to touch.

The gun would change all that. He was learning how to touch now.     (AngelPie_Mouse)

The kid felt the cold steel Against his skin Knowing, just knowing what a bullet must feel Penetrating an enemy's skin and sinew; what a sin! But what a rush of adrenalin! And this gave the Kid more power too It awakened in him a desire for blood and violence That it scared him at the same time and he was mesmorized and left without a clue As to this renewed sense of prowess that took over his entire self...      (Mgonzalez01)

Voices, those voices keep coming, saying this is wrong, there is that thought again, telling me it can be done so easily, devouring all of what conscience I have, "The Kid" will be thy self given a mortality, sensing there need a turn ahead, the corner as passing, gives a look down the street to the big double doors, a grand entrance to the church, and he keeps on walking...     (EnchantedWords)

Mr. C set down his newspaper at the breakfast table looking up at the slip of slate sky through the kitchen window he shook his head lips pressed in a thin line and forehead bunched in a momentary expression of concern "Conspiracy Suspected at Columbine" Who bought the guns? Who put them into the hands of the children? He turned from the black letter headline to the business section and shrugged.

And in the street outside, The Kid turned the corner, Elm Avenue to Main Boulevard. 7:46 a.m.         (AngelPie_Mouse)

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We presently have 27 members at the CyberPoet’s Niche.   We have Chat Night every Wednesdays at 9PM Eastern.   We are number 20th place 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.

Here are some good poetry sites.

Spondee	http://www.execpc.com/~jon
A Little Poetry	http://www.alittlepoetry.com
Gem of Proverbs and Poems	http://www.cj.5c.com
Channel P: Go! Poetry	http://channelp/index.asp?showid=49

Mary Gonzalez
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