Time to evolve. Take the best features of Cloud Couplets, AhQuotes and Positive Poetry and rolled them all into one. Throw Yahoo, Topica, and Smartgroups out the window. Get a list server with no ads. Come up with a snapy name.

Tadah! You have UPLIFT.

Here's the list description:

"Uplift brings together short thoughts, quotes, couplets and verse for a delightful mix for those who want to keep their heads above the clouds and out of the mud."

Wanna come along?

Hmm, no poetry posted lately. So here's a couplet to savor, or gnaw on, whichever suits your internal combustion state:

My Feeble Efforts

by Randal Matheny

If I could choose, I'd be a cloud,
an ever-changing shape;
I'd drift along above the crowd,
the sky my blue escape.

See drawing by explodingdog.com

by Randal Matheny

I'm under fire by oughts and shoulds,
depressed by heavy, gruesome thoughts.
Their weight has crushed the cans and coulds
and left me seeing shapes in blots.

Not that I feel this way at the moment, but I remember a time when ...

Graphic from A Perfect World

by Randal Matheny

The shadows slowly sweep the sundial's face,
a foe to some; to me, a family friend.
Their calm, relentless march keeps cares apace
and makes me look at life's decisive end.

I wrote the above as a poetry challenge on a forum I
participate in. A timepiece had to be included as well
as the following words: cares, life, relentless, look,
friend. Getting those five words in four lines took a
bit of brow-furrowing. Maybe it'll say something to you
today. Smiles!