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    Aspire to Greatness
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Apr 11
    • 2 min

    Aspire to Greatness

    Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
    3 comments
    Dream Time
    By Daniel Leach
    • Mar 28
    • 2 min

    Dream Time

    The clock is ticking in the pallid rays Of ghost-like morning hour’s waning moonlight, And though it orders all my waking days, It has no...
    2 comments
    The Gift of Lilies
    By Adam Sedia
    • Mar 22
    • 1 min

    The Gift of Lilies

    If angels plucked up blossoms In endless, light-drowned skies, With curved sextuple petals Glowing radiant white, Pearlescent in noon’s...
    0 comments
    Will There Be Starlight?
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Mar 14
    • 1 min

    Will There Be Starlight?

    Will there be starlight tonight while she gathers damask and lilac and sweet-scented heathers? And will she find flowers, or will she...
    6 comments
    Christine
    By Kevin Roberts
    • Mar 14
    • 2 min

    Christine

    No longer light, but not yet dark, We stand here in some space between And listen to a meadow lark; Last year she sang so sweet and keen...
    1 comment
    Autumn Ballad
    By Jack Dempster
    • Mar 7
    • 2 min

    Autumn Ballad

    I. Leaves of crispy gold and red drift softly from the sky, falling down to the frozen ground without a sound, to shrivel up and die –...
    1 comment
    Lay Down Your Armor
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Feb 28
    • 1 min

    Lay Down Your Armor

    Lay down your armor And play for me your precious lyre; And let me hear Your deepest dreams and frail desires. Lay down your armor And...
    1 comment
    Barbarous Captivity & Truth Seekers
    By Gleb Zavlanov
    • Feb 22
    • 1 min

    Barbarous Captivity & Truth Seekers

    Barbarous Captivity The stone confines the angel’s shape; It grips her hands with awful might; It clutches at her supple nape And hinders...
    0 comments
    The Monkeys and the Moon
    By Terry Norton
    • Feb 15
    • 2 min

    The Monkeys and the Moon

    (adapted from a Tibetan folktale) In times long-past, there lived a band Of monkeys in a forestland, And as they rambled roundabout, They...
    1 comment
    Old Nights and Other Poems
    By Craig Dobson
    • Feb 7
    • 1 min

    Old Nights and Other Poems

    Old Nights Was it incubus or succubus who – groggy, doe-eyed – walked me through the fine rain, sleeping? Older now, still wet from then,...
    0 comments
    Looking Down
    By Daniel Platt
    • Jan 31
    • 1 min

    Looking Down

    Behold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
    0 comments
    Small Child & Other Poetry
    By Vera Ignatowitsch
    • Jan 27
    • 1 min

    Small Child & Other Poetry

    Small Child Small child with my eyes return my heart before you wander. Take the jewels. I wish you plenty. Place a flower’s petals...
    0 comments
    Unnamed
    By Paul Gallagher
    • Jan 27
    • 2 min

    Unnamed

    Soldiers make quick work of life; Quick as the slipping of a knife They abandon mother, child and wife And are no more. To them the...
    0 comments
    Chinese Mountain Man III: The Climb
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jan 17
    • 1 min

    Chinese Mountain Man III: The Climb

    Who goes there, wandering About the mists and the rains? Among the alpine crests And mountains’ crystal streams? A Chinese mountain man...
    0 comments
    Hotel
    By Philip Nikolayev
    • Jan 17
    • 1 min

    Hotel

    Time to recount the sparrows of the air. Seated alone on an elected stair, I stare as they appear and disappear. Tonight the deck...
    0 comments
    Sailor's Song & Sonnet to my Love
    By Brian Yapko
    • Jan 17
    • 2 min

    Sailor's Song & Sonnet to my Love

    A Sailor's Song I’m going to sail the ocean I’m going to sail the sea I’m going to find my one true love And bring her home to me. I’ll...
    0 comments
    To a Girl in an Old Photograph
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jan 11
    • 1 min

    To a Girl in an Old Photograph

    It was the eyes that first ensnared my sight, As if through the hazy, gray years were glowing, Like beacons in my soul’s long wandering...
    0 comments
    The New Year
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 1
    • 1 min

    The New Year

    The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...
    1 comment
    Demented Choirs
    By Gleb Zavlanov
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Demented Choirs

    Beware utopia’s demented choirs. Their melodies, with sweet, seductive splendor, Inflaming Man’s fantastical desires For liberty from...
    2 comments
    Life
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    Life

    Life is like a waking dream, Ripples on a fading stream, It has laughter, it has crying— A beginning and an ending. It's dear like a...
    1 comment
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