Roll Call

[SteveB]

The Listeners; Walter de La Mare

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

[casman]

I only pop in now and again,to have a look,the forum is not what it use to be.

[Kraxis]

it seems its the same people posting the same unfunny and unentertaining drivel crap the whole time now.

there seems to be about 10 here now (not including escorts) if even, so lets see whos here anymore

I lurk.

But, I actually joined to be part of the community. so i could post and put in client requests. the thing was, whenever I did, I just found girls didnt read them, reply or pm you as a requester, and then there was the sarcasm from other members, you see it all the time, and after a comment or two on your posting, you feel that even if a lady read it, it was no longer worth replying to the thread/request.

and the scaremongering, about the law etc...
but right before that, the dreaded EI upgrade, which i still think is open to a lot of refinement, in many ways just not as intuitive as before.

in short, still here, but i lurk.