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Important Update: Transition from pathetic.org to eMuse.org - 03/16/2025
by Gavin M Roy

After years of intermittent development, eMuse is almost ready to launch. As part of this transition, pathetic.org will be shutdown and will redirect to eMuse.org.
What you need to know:

* No accounts will be automatically created
* No content will be automatically transferred
* When creating your new eMuse account, you'll have the option to import your data from pathetic.org

We look forward to welcoming you to the new platform.

Hello, Survivors of 2020! - 01/03/2021
by V. Blake

Please check my post out in the General forum when you have a moment. Thanks!

Stay Healthy - 03/18/2020
by V. Blake

Hope you and yours are well.

A Congratulations to Leonard M Hawkes - 03/27/2019
by V. Blake

..who just published his first volume of poetry! Entitled Leaves from my Box Elder, it comes just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike.

So, like the title says--congrats, Leonard!

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Poem of the Day for 12/14/25

If there is to be Singing
by Alison McKenzie

If there is to be singing,
I want to belt it out!
Unison and harmonies and discords
Majors moving to minors moving back to major 7th augmented
Chords,
Wrapping and twisting around themselves,
Vibrations actualized in music.

I want rhythm!
Frame quaking in the downbeats,
Heart swept in the ups,
Feet moving,
Those members of antipodal independence,
Taking me along for the ride
Just for good measure.
Crescendos and Andantes,
Becoming one with the waves.

Oh, but to be a symphony of one?
The very nature of music needs more.
Even unison requires two.
And yet beauty in solo does reside
For here am I.

07/10/2004

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