53/F/Rochester NY    I have walked in the darkness of I can’t feel because I choose not to. Fell face down and bumped my head on every feeling …

24/Missouri    there are no shortcuts to wellness, just the long walk through illness

34/M    Poetry isn't written it is created. Writing it is only one form of it's expression.

I love poetry. I love everything about it. How it gives you the freedom to write from the heart, allowing you to express yourself in …

I have been writing since early childhood. I enjoy the outlet that poetry allows and have been writing poetry since high-school. I spent four years …

I was born, Cursed to be a monster a wretched living dream, a metamorphosis of structure a changling stuck in being, the blood is spent …

30/F/Oregon    I write as I breathe, without either I would cease to be.

I'm an old-school, pre-web published poet, painter and arts promoter. My background in the arts are eclectic -from the visual arts, classical music, opera, theatre …