I am so excited. I made my first post! Does that make me a "writer" now?

New Release by Anthony Simeone:
Floater
1 day ago

New Release by R. L. S. Hoff:
Hope Gardens--Chapter Fifty-Seven
1 day ago

New Release by Johannes Saca:
Chapter 13: The Lover
3 days ago

New Release by Murray Fuhrer:
A Pocketful of Hope
4 days ago

New chapters coming next week in my Amish series, "Lessons of the World."  I hope you'll subscribe and get to know these special characters.

New Release by Grace Tierney:
Age is Just a Number
6 days ago

How many of you write out a rough draft of your work in longhand then type it on the computer and upload it or just do your rough draft on the computer?

Happy New Year to all!  Let's hope it's better than the last 2.

Creatures of the Valleys

Up and down the valley

It’s the same. In the streets and the shops

On the buses and at the stops -

The creatures of the valley.

Frightening sights on crutches or

In wheelchairs. Tattooed, 

Misshapen, bent, toothless, unshaven,

Ill-clothed, wild-eyed.

A shuffling, shaking, cigarette-puffing

Shoal of low income locals darting this way and that.

Ill-tempered voices cracked and thin but

Also fat and merry with mirth too.

Bursting out of nowhere and scattering

This swarm of fish like variety,

Up swims Dawson. Like a playful dolphin

Leaping and diving, disregarding.

An artist and joker is Dawson.

Sharp as a needle. An elbow in your ribs and a guffaw

At an inadvertent pun. And then we’re on to

Paintings and drawings and writings.

Amongst the minnows and sprats

The jellyfish and octopi, here is a creature

Of some different substance. Eager to

Share his joy in colour and paint.

So I’ve nicknamed him Daubson,  

Which I think he’d like. A colourful creature

Amongst the everyday.

A fellow creative in his hideaway.

Merry Christmas to all!