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    Christine
    By Kevin Roberts
    • Mar 14, 2021
    • 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...
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    Autumn Ballad
    By Jack Dempster
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 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 –...
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    Lay Down Your Armor
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Feb 28, 2021
    • 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, 2021
    • 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...
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    The Monkeys and the Moon
    By Terry Norton
    • Feb 15, 2021
    • 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...
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    Old Nights and Other Poems
    By Craig Dobson
    • Feb 7, 2021
    • 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,...
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    Small Child & Other Poetry
    By Vera Ignatowitsch
    • Jan 27, 2021
    • 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...
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    Unnamed
    By Paul Gallagher
    • Jan 27, 2021
    • 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...
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    Chinese Mountain Man III: The Climb
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 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...
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    Hotel
    By Philip Nikolayev
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 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...
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    Sailor's Song & Sonnet to my Love
    By Brian Yapko
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 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...
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    To a Girl in an Old Photograph
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • 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...
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    The New Year
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 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...
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    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...
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    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
    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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    Modern Dreams
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Nov 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Modern Dreams

    The dreams I had have been forgotten now— The dreams I once believed I knew were true— The dreams I know will haunt me every day— The...
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