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    'Cause You'd Be Here
    By Gleb Zavlanov
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    'Cause You'd Be Here

    The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly...
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    Telling the Bees About Love
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Jun 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Telling the Bees About Love

    Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
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    Birthing Pains and Other Poetry
    By Troy Camplin
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Birthing Pains and Other Poetry

    An Invitation The gods have fled? They haven't been invited! A century has passed opposing beauty And now we stand depressed, dismayed,...
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    Mar de Hoces
    By Daniel Platt
    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Mar de Hoces

    Stupendous jade-hued volumes of the sea That palpitate and crest on such a scale To make the sailor's resolution quail And falter; this...
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    Southern Icarus and other Poems
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Jun 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Southern Icarus and other Poems

    Southern Icarus Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite . . . What do...
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    Ode to Spring
    By Adam Sedia
    • May 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Ode to Spring

    O life-affirming season, mild and fair Yet bursting with life, rousing long-dulled sense, Whose spark of youth electrifies the air Heavy...
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    Wings
    By C. David Hay
    • May 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Wings

    Wings Oh, to catch the winds of flight, And soar where eagles go, To leave the woes of troubled souls Behind me far below. I'd listen to...
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    Chinese Mountain Man V: The Foggy Trail
    By David B. Gosselin
    • May 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    Chinese Mountain Man V: The Foggy Trail

    A sage and his disciple stood Before a foggy mountain trail: They thought about their lives and all The mysteries of earth’s dark veil....
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    Dog Dreams
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dog Dreams

    Sometimes I imagine that I am still young, Like an old sleeping dog in his dreams; His legs move, and he pants at the air with his...
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    Poems After Dickenson
    By Paul Gallagher
    • Apr 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Poems After Dickenson

    The one who is given Great gifts may thus fall; The thief attained to heaven In the last interval. Love makes all even, Truth, not time,...
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    Chinese Mountain Man IV: The Mountain Wood
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Apr 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    Chinese Mountain Man IV: The Mountain Wood

    A sage and pupil made their way Into a deep and darkened wood. They searched and wandered places Where for years no traveler would. The...
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    Dawn  Herald
    By Adam Sedia
    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dawn Herald

    Night broods heavy, dark, and still – Its darkest, stillest hour, When the damp, dead airs chill And the starlight glows dour. I roam the...
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    Dragon Wings & Other Poetry
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dragon Wings & Other Poetry

    As close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
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    In the Whispering Night
    By Michael R. Burch
    • Mar 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    In the Whispering Night

    For George King In the whispering night, when the stars bend low till the hills ignite to a shining flame, when a shower of meteors...
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    Supernova
    By Daniel Leach
    • Mar 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Supernova

    The beautiful old soul, like a dying star, Burns brighter as it nears its seeming end, And fills with glorious light, the regions far...
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    Chinese Mountain Man: The Phoenix
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Feb 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    Chinese Mountain Man: The Phoenix

    It was upon a quiet night As graying clouds raced past the moon, A sage and pupil made their way Into a deep and darkened wood. Among ...
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    The Fountains of Vaucluse
    By Troy Camplin
    • Feb 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Fountains of Vaucluse

    The villa of Petrarch sits on a hill Above the rapids tumbling through the rocks. It's ruins now--the broken stones are clocks That tick...
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    Apiary
    By Bruce Meyer
    • Jan 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Apiary

    The lavender fields are dotted with white boxes squat as houses. In his mesh veil, smoker handy, hands gloved, he slowly removes the...
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    'Cicadas' & 'In Mad River'
    By T.M. Moore
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    'Cicadas' & 'In Mad River'

    Cicada There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for knowing any bliss, or making...
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    Norther
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jan 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Norther

    The first true norther came today, With raging gusts of wind and rain, And blew the Summer heat away, And with it all of passion’s pain....
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