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    Come Darkness & Twilight Idyll
    By James A. Tweedie
    • Dec 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Come Darkness & Twilight Idyll

    Come, Darkness Come, Darkness, Wrap me in your ebon mantle as a shroud. Freed from wearied weariness may I find peace Lost within the...
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    Colosseum Reverie & Other Poetry
    By Dan Jabe
    • Nov 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Colosseum Reverie & Other Poetry

    Colosseum Reverie She’s ruined, though her shadows dwell, Forever reaching for the light, And crumbling blocks of travertine Still mourn...
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    Insurrection & Other Poetry
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Nov 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Insurrection & Other Poetry

    Insurrection She has become as the night—listening for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening, reminds me of her, and the wind,...
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    Nebula
    By Adam Sedia
    • Nov 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Nebula

    When my time has come And helium Weighs down on my exhausted core, Spent from shedding light Through the endless night Until the fuel...
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    Young and Old
    By Daniel Leach
    • Nov 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Young and Old

    Old as the eons that measure the galaxies, As to the unheard music they swirl, Young as the feeling that plays in the heart And the smile...
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    Jungle Dance
    By Brian Yapko
    • Nov 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Jungle Dance

    Insects buzzing, feathers flapping, rumbles Of hungry mammal-mouths demanding meat; Decay and sticky leaves, a monkey tumbles Through...
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    Dirt
    By Drew Keane
    • Oct 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dirt

    Is it quite fair to say dirt's only brown? Are there not other colors there? — Look down. That brown is multifaceted and could Be broken...
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    The Architect's Dream
    By Dan Jabe
    • Oct 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Architect's Dream

    (After the painting by T. Cole) I dreamed I lay on drawing books, Atop a column, perching high, To gaze upon the world below And saw...
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    To Flower
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Sep 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    To Flower

    When Pentheus [“grief’] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by...
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    To the Distant Beloved
    By Daniel Platt
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    To the Distant Beloved

    The motion of thy tender, fragile heart, I hear it at the instant I awake, And thy mischievous laughter makes me quake In resonance, as...
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    An Andalusian Dream
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Andalusian Dream

    Over the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the...
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    Late Summer
    By Daniel Leach
    • Aug 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Late Summer

    Late summer, and the silvery undersides Of the leaves shimmer in the hazy air, And the cicadas’ song wells up in tides That wash over my...
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    "Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen
    By Robin Helweg-Larsen
    • Aug 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    "Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen

    Prose and Poetry I long for Prose - but darkly, distantly, She looks at far-off lands. It’s Poetry who brings persistently Small gifts in...
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    Telling the Bees About Friendship
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Friendship

    As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
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    Water and Gold and Other Poems
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Aug 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Water and Gold and Other Poems

    Water and Gold You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy’s a wan illusion to the...
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    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"
    The Editor
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"

    Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the...
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    Late Imperial Woes
    By Craig Dobson
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Late Imperial Woes

    I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
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    The Violin Soldier
    By Paul Gallagher
    • Jul 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Violin Soldier

    It was a story somehow true – it likely happened so, It's strange – but there is much that's strange in human powers to know. A young...
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    Stones
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Stones

    These stones that like huge sculpted figures lie Amid the trunks of moss and fern-clad trees, Eons of creatures have seen born and die...
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    Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jul 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge

    The travelers had reached a gorge Whose darkness they would have to breach. The mountaintops lay far ahead— “Such darkness has a lot to...
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