Deep Underground Poetry is Closing Down
PoetSpeak said:I'm still hoping there is a collective way DUP can continue to operate...
Can a fee be instituted to keep DUP alive ? 🤔
Perhaps even a scaled down version that isn't so expensive to operate?
Perhaps just poetry and not all the bells and whistles ??
DUP means the world to me.
It's a safe house for someone like me who is a opposite of the general population. A site where it is okay to be different. Celebrated even.
Many of us will be homeless without DUP. We will cease to write.
Or we will write very infrequently.
I implore you Webmistress to consider alternatives and I thank you for the past 12 years for giving me a home ....
I feel the same way. This was where I could express myself and find support I did not know was out there. I'm going to miss everyone I have had an opportunity to learn. Some of you have encouraged and helped me grow in ways you will never know. I'm going to miss my home away from home. I hope everyone can find refuge in another site, and who knows, we might just find each other again.
Can a fee be instituted to keep DUP alive ? 🤔
Perhaps even a scaled down version that isn't so expensive to operate?
Perhaps just poetry and not all the bells and whistles ??
DUP means the world to me.
It's a safe house for someone like me who is a opposite of the general population. A site where it is okay to be different. Celebrated even.
Many of us will be homeless without DUP. We will cease to write.
Or we will write very infrequently.
I implore you Webmistress to consider alternatives and I thank you for the past 12 years for giving me a home ....
I feel the same way. This was where I could express myself and find support I did not know was out there. I'm going to miss everyone I have had an opportunity to learn. Some of you have encouraged and helped me grow in ways you will never know. I'm going to miss my home away from home. I hope everyone can find refuge in another site, and who knows, we might just find each other again.
And thus the doors will close
Disturb the dust one final time,
The darkness will increase
To hide the tears from swollen eyes.
The voices turn to echoes
As they fade into the night
Ghostly whispers haunt the shadows
To recall creative light.
🥺👻🪦
Xxx
Disturb the dust one final time,
The darkness will increase
To hide the tears from swollen eyes.
The voices turn to echoes
As they fade into the night
Ghostly whispers haunt the shadows
To recall creative light.
🥺👻🪦
Xxx
KittyFromHell said:This breaks my heart. I've used DUP as an outlet since I was 15... in 2013... I'll be 27 this year. What ever shall I do now? 
I just went through my whole page saving things... what a whirlwind of memories!
i empath Feel Your angst.
i scoured the internet for a NEW Home, to no avail. i was addicted and donated 28 hrs of my life to this search!
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER like our Deep Underground Poetry.
Not like the format EVER. It;s the format that kept me glued to this Wonderful community.
Caused me to wish i had the funds and the Coding Knowledge to keep this hallowed place intact.
I just went through my whole page saving things... what a whirlwind of memories! i empath Feel Your angst.
i scoured the internet for a NEW Home, to no avail. i was addicted and donated 28 hrs of my life to this search!
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER like our Deep Underground Poetry.
Not like the format EVER. It;s the format that kept me glued to this Wonderful community.
Caused me to wish i had the funds and the Coding Knowledge to keep this hallowed place intact.
Next time you are on public transport lean towards
someone and say " i write poetry "
It isn't the done thing at best you'd get a a nervous grin
the worse? god knows an she ain't telling but here
I can shout it out and add " YES, AND MINE, RHYMES!
It's a cruel world
someone and say " i write poetry "
It isn't the done thing at best you'd get a a nervous grin
the worse? god knows an she ain't telling but here
I can shout it out and add " YES, AND MINE, RHYMES!
It's a cruel world
lepperochan said:
...
I fund this thread a little disappointing,
I would urge people to lay down :
How you found the 7
When did you join
why did you join
why did you stay
-type thing, let the webmiss know how this site makes the days months years better for you
thank you, you are all beautiful people ❤️
PS: If you haven't checked it out already, check out Muggle, it was a type of magazine put together by members :
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/Muggle/
I no longer know how I found DU, when I try to remember.. some ideas come to mind..none of which feel quite right, kind of like trying to recall your earliest childhood memory, ..where you no longer can tell if that actually happened or you dreamed it.
What I know for a fact though is that I posted my first poem on here on the 12th of May, 2012. I was apparently a member of the site for 9 months before I did so, so I guess I spent a lot of time lurking/reading.. I remember being incredibly inspired by both the forums and the poetry. I had a handful of favorite writers who I really enjoyed, like Miruku555 if I remember his username correctly.
In 2014, after graduating high school I decided to move to Latvia, and feeling quite lonely decided to rejoin DU, and I'm so glad I did, it became a community for me, a space where I still had a connection to America in a sense, and the English language which I adore deeply. Some of my favorite memories from that time are of evenings reading good poetry and chatting with Eamonn and replying to questions in the Q&A thread. This place was a wonderful space for me when I needed it <3
I'm so thankful to the Webmiss for creating this place, it truly is amazing how many peoples lives you've impacted with DU Poetry, there's no other space like it on the internet, and it's had a great run.
Thank you to everyone who I've gotten to know on here, you are wonderful <3
...
I fund this thread a little disappointing,
I would urge people to lay down :
How you found the 7
When did you join
why did you join
why did you stay
-type thing, let the webmiss know how this site makes the days months years better for you
thank you, you are all beautiful people ❤️
PS: If you haven't checked it out already, check out Muggle, it was a type of magazine put together by members :
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/Muggle/
I no longer know how I found DU, when I try to remember.. some ideas come to mind..none of which feel quite right, kind of like trying to recall your earliest childhood memory, ..where you no longer can tell if that actually happened or you dreamed it.
What I know for a fact though is that I posted my first poem on here on the 12th of May, 2012. I was apparently a member of the site for 9 months before I did so, so I guess I spent a lot of time lurking/reading.. I remember being incredibly inspired by both the forums and the poetry. I had a handful of favorite writers who I really enjoyed, like Miruku555 if I remember his username correctly.
In 2014, after graduating high school I decided to move to Latvia, and feeling quite lonely decided to rejoin DU, and I'm so glad I did, it became a community for me, a space where I still had a connection to America in a sense, and the English language which I adore deeply. Some of my favorite memories from that time are of evenings reading good poetry and chatting with Eamonn and replying to questions in the Q&A thread. This place was a wonderful space for me when I needed it <3
I'm so thankful to the Webmiss for creating this place, it truly is amazing how many peoples lives you've impacted with DU Poetry, there's no other space like it on the internet, and it's had a great run.
Thank you to everyone who I've gotten to know on here, you are wonderful <3
Rew said:Next time you are on public transport lean towards
someone and say " i write poetry "
It isn't the done thing at best you'd get a a nervous grin
the worse? god knows an she ain't telling but here
I can shout it out and add " YES, AND MINE, RHYMES!
It's a cruel world
oooh, I love the reel this conjures in my mind. What a fun crazy idea to whisper something like that to a stranger.
someone and say " i write poetry "
It isn't the done thing at best you'd get a a nervous grin
the worse? god knows an she ain't telling but here
I can shout it out and add " YES, AND MINE, RHYMES!
It's a cruel world
oooh, I love the reel this conjures in my mind. What a fun crazy idea to whisper something like that to a stranger.
Thank you to those who read, liked, and encouraged me in my poetry journey. I've been a member since 2015 and am so sad to see the site go. I have a website lcmcquillen.com and an instagram page @L.C.McQuillen that I would love to continue to connect with you on. Planning on releasing my first poetry book here soon (:
Looking forward to the NaPoWriMo last hurrah on DUP <3
Looking forward to the NaPoWriMo last hurrah on DUP <3
