Welcome to PEN. A social network of persons who personify themselves as poets. We gather to share our creative poems with self dignity, self proclamation, and continual self discovery. We recognize the creative writing we expose here are verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions, characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme. Poet Expression is a community of poets who recognize the powerful use of chosen words that encourage insight or beauty of expression without damnation within our chosen work or to other poets. Our poems are literary composition written with intention, integrity, intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose, though both are welcomed and encouraged. We gather to uphold the art of creative writing with dignity and self discovery. As unique individuals we reserve the right to moderate our own personal page, which at PEN it is called, "My Work Room" as well as blogs submitted as "Poems". In addition, we understand that to critique a poets work or a person may not protect one's dignity as he or she may be in process of searching their own self awareness. For this reason, our comments made to another person's literary work is made toward better understanding of one's self as well as appreciation toward the poets work. Should a critique be warranted, and would like to be helpful, to the other, it is advised this is done so by private message. In offering critique toward literary structure; it behooves us to ask the question, WHY, the poet offered a poem that is a departure from purity. "Poetry aspires to purity; poems do not" Robert Penn Warren