the cafe' listens without you hear

suddenly, the coffee is a little better, when the chatter is removed from the cafe'

The quiet murmur,
voices in the room,
intelligent,
helping,
sincere voices,
sharing poetry,
allowed to speak
once again.
the air isn't quite so stuffy,
and the dirty dishes
have all been shuffled
off to the kitchen
to be scrubbed clean.

The cafe' listens when
you are not hear.

Author's Note

The use of hear this way IS intentional. And it just felt peaceful this morning, in the cafe'

Reviews

[Baby Ricochet]

Good post drama poem. Sums it all up rather well I'd say.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks Baby, yes, post drama, I'd say that is a fair assessment.

[Matching Socks]

It does feel different, fewer RRs for me that's for sure.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, for everyone. I just hope it stays that way. :)

[Dispersus]

hear here :-) I was run out of town once, for running asshats out of town...in an imperfect world, the oxygen thieves breathe

[Lyn Anderson]

Umm, yes, I can see that, for awhile I thought I might get in trouble for calling him out, but enough people jumped on the bandwagon, and for now, he is quiet, though lurking.

[Brittany Zedalis]

╰☆╮So glad he is gone.╰☆╮

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, but he is still lurking, just incognito.

[Brittany Zedalis]

That's lame.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I am hoping he will tire of not being able to use his "real" name and go away. I know one of his personalities is still active. She didn't even have the brains to take down the pic of the other personality. When you google one you get the other. Thinks we are all stupid.

[Brittany Zedalis]

I didn't know he was using multiple accounts. Though, I'm not on here often.

[R Smith]

got to agree with all the previous reviews, nice to be clean again although he is still plying his 'trade' on Poemhunter website, hope they see the light and smell the coffee soon, thank you :)

[Lyn Anderson]

He is? Have the people there been warned? Uggh.

[R Smith]

I put a link to one of the plagiarism sites about him in a message to whoever runs the PH site but i'm not hopeful, he looks like a big noise there, got lots of high praise, of course when they see the link maybe they will change their minds :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Holy man. How in the hell does this guy sleep at night?

[R Smith]

he's a vampire at night sucking the life's blood from honest poets like us

[Frieda P]

Yep, your order is up without that icky side of plagiarism or benign reviews....tastes/sounds so much better.

[Lyn Anderson]

You got that right. Let's hope it stays that way. We all know when a writer is online, his or her icon still appears in the online writer's page, even if the account is closed ...

[Frieda P]

Yes we only your PI skills to find out which mask he hides behind. You don't think he's given up that easily do you?....

[Lyn Anderson]

No, I do not. He was skulking around here yesterday, and some of the suspect ids are still up and not closed. He can't come back in as himself without drawing ire, so not sure what he will do. Maybe he is waiting for all of us to leave ...

[Frieda P]

He won't be satisfied with the usual suspects...be on the lookout...

[Lyn Anderson]

Funny thing, the one suspect ID is still up and running, when you search it, the pic of another suspect ID that was closed comes up ...

[Frieda P]

Hmmm, peculiar indeed and not very smart.

[Lydia Shutter]

Hmmmm.....when you are not "hear"....very clever use of a homophone. I liked it a lot. Some people are not missed when they are gone, that's for sure! Lydi**

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much, I liked it, I thought it was fitting. It was kind of peaceful this morning without the placating phrases, and false praise.

[NoelHC]

The thing I am enjoying the most is being able to see updates of friends on the news feed, before those would disappear off the page so quickly as review after review by and of him/her would fill the feed up. So much easier to see what has been published, comments made, etc.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes I agree that why I wrote it

[MomzillaNC]

Did you mean to say "when you are not [hear]?" It's a brilliant play on words, if so.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes I did its at the top of my notes thank you

[MomzillaNC]

You're welcome. That was nice touch.

[AprilRN1210]

haha, love this... clever, funny, and witty... and soooo true.. good riddance... good job girl... love your humor... :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. Just a little adios

[AprilRN1210]

quite fitting and funny one at that..