Showcase - Week of: 5/30-6/5/20

New Submissions:

• Time: Transformation of Perspective and Circumstance - By Connor Orrico

• Disillusioned - By Elizabeth Sams

• Corner Kingdom - By James Geehring

• Silence… - By Rajani Regmi

• Waiting - By Sheeba Khwaja

• Creation - By Blaine Coleman

• Redwork - By Shelly Norris

• “The Strength of Color”: in Dedication to the Memory of George Floyd - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Personal Growth - By Chris Platt

• The Distance Between Objects - By Mimm Patterson

• Red Paint - By Sharon Cunningham

• Disorder - By Sushant Thapa

• Counting Tomorrows - By Ann Christne Tabaka

• There Is Work to be Done - By Mike Turner

• Thank You for the Fleas - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Distance Between Objects - By Mimm Patterson

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Showcase - Week of: 5/23-29/20

New Submissions:

• Are You Going To Wear That? - By Soare Stapanire

• Uneven Ground - By Shelly Norris

• A Modest Proposal to the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Football Fantasy - By Chris Platt

• Flying Somewhere in the Imagination - By Moin Uddin

• Your Grace - By Sushant Thapa

• The Nature of Change - By Mike Turner

• Frangipani - By PritiJ

• Mr. Universe - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• A Modest Proposal to the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy - By Ngoc Nguyen

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Showcase - Week of: 5/16-22/20

New Submissions:

• “What Is Beauty?...” - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Kumuduni Kunj School - By Radhika Kalpit

• Hero Imprisoned - By Chris Platt

• Are Days Always Like This? - By Sushant Thapa

• Hate New Normal - By Gyanu B.K.

• Pasture Statues - By Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi

• Growth Despite Depressive Disintegration - By Connor Orrico

• I Have Been Transformed - By Mike Turner

• The Tennessee Tornado - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Pasture Statues - By Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi

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Showcase - Week of: 5/9-15/20

New Submissions:

• Dark Animus - By Shelly Norris

• War or Peace - By Sushant Kumar B.K.

• Still Here - By Chris Platt

• The Morning Sun Just Kissed Your Face - By Moin Uddin

• Lying, As a Fog - By Mike Turner

• PTSD and Me - By Marina Vos

• What Is It That Poetry Can Do? - By Sushant Thapa

• I Forgot Your Name - By Soare Stapanire

• Tsunami - By Orbindu Ganga

• The Kentucky Colonel - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Tsunami - By Orbindu Ganga

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Showcase - Week of: 5/2-8/20

New Submissions:

• Denying the Destiny - By Connor Orrico

• My Big Day - By Sarah Henry

• Athena 17 - By Chris Platt

• Don't let me go! - By Moin Uddin

• She - By Rajendra Ojha 

• George's Dream - By Pete Black

• Truth and Deceit - By Mike Turner

• Twenty Wallets - By Steven Roisum

• The Bird and the Well - By Sushant Thapa

• The Haunting of Nightmare - By Soare Stapanire

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Twenty Wallets - By Steven Roisum

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Showcase - Week of: 4/25-5/1/20

New Submissions:

• My Hero - By Robert L. Scarry

• Orange Honeysuckle - By Shelly Norris

• The Show Must Go On - By Mimm Patterson

• Terror - By Michael Fright

• Strolling Into The Thoughts - By Moin Uddin

• A Better Life - By Anonymous

• I Love What I Do - By Sushant Thapa

• Word Canvas - By James Geehring

• The Vinyl Farewell - By Chris Platt

• Malaya - By Aliker P'Ocitti

• The Stranger in Cock-Full-o'Nuts - By Antoinette Carone

• Destiny Lines Rhetoric - By PritiJ

• Oh Fate! - By Mike Turner

• Yoga Nidra Meditation Script: Thank the Nature - By Soare Stapanire

• Flying is for Angels - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Destiny Lines Rhetoric - By PritiJ

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Showcase - Week of: 4/18-24/20

New Submissions:

• Freedom and Lockdown - By Sushant Thapa

• Psychic Predictions - By Sarah Henry

• Trevor - By Elijah MacBean

• Mutual Destiny - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Kicking Write Off - By Chris Platt

• Memory Loss A Blessing - By Keketso Mashigo

• Today - By Lynda Scott Araya

• Love During Quarantine - By Sushant Kumar B.K.

• Yoga Nidra Meditation Script: For Stress - By Soare Stapanire

• Love and Fragrance - By JayM

• What Was, What Is - By Margaret Karmazin

• Few Facts: A Lot of Guess Work - By Robert L. Scarry

• The Gift of Eden - By Mike Turner

• The Journey to Discover Your Voice - By John Davis

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Yoga Nidra Meditation Script: For Stress - By Soare Stapanire

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Showcase - Week of: 4/11-17/20

New Submissions:

• Spiritual Labor - By Nora Straub

• Riptide - By Kate Emerson

• Wallflower Observations - By Carmen Baca

• Tribal Queen - By Alexander Zoltai

• My Lovely Mind -  By Aldo Quagliotti

• Bitter Fruit - By Chris Platt

• The Road That Kept Moving - By Sushant Thapa

• The Final Tuck - By Sonam Lama

• Eradicate - By Traci Campbell

• Destiny - By Mike Turner

• Spirituality Acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• No Going Back - By Pete Black

• Buddies - By Richard Levy

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Wallflower Observations - By Carmen Baca

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Showcase - Week of: 4/4-10/20

New Submissions:

• Battle in the Car Wash - By Sarah Henry Henry

• Lying in the Death Bed - By Bikalpa Acharya

• When I Stopped to Watch the Moon - By Sushant Thapa

• Auld Lang Syne  - By Michael Fright

• The Guardian of Time - By Elaine Marie Carnegie

• Discovery - By Chris Platt

• Grief of The Artisan - By Alexander Zoltai

• Ophelia - By Enas R.

• Papa - By Jamima

• Memoirs of a Navy Dad - By Robert L. Scarry

• Daddy's Potato Soup - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• Truth and Faith - By Mike Turner

• Her Eyes Were Wide Open - By Benjamin Fine

• I Play a Part in This Drama of Life, and the Struggle to Own it - By John Davis

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Daddy's Potato Soup - By Nancy Lou Henderson

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Showcase - Week of: 3/28/20-4/3/20

New Submissions:

• Prudent Now Imprudent - By Pradeep Lamichhane

• Quarantine Work - By Sushant Kumar B.K.

• Creation 160 - By Chris Platt

• The Insane Astrologer - By Alexander Zoltai

• Times Eight - By James Geehring

• The Child of the Storm - By Kate Emerson

• Nail Biter - By Michael Fright

• My Life Is A Voyage - By Moin Uddin

• Diving Deep Into The Grass - By Sushant Thapa

• There Is A Light - By Peter Dietrich

• Abandoned Dreams - By Mike Turner

• Superstition - By Tom Kastanotis

• Hope - By JayM

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Times Eight - By James Geehring

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Showcase - Week of: 3/21-27/20

New Submissions:

• Bewitching Draw - By JayM

• On A Purview Of A Misty Morning -  By Sushant Thapa

• The Avatar and The Dragon - By Alexander Zoltai

• After Life - By Chris Platt

• Soulful Symphony - By Moin Uddin

• Amnesia (Connection Book One) - By Brittini Renee

• Elements, Essential - By Mike Turner

• Chocolate - By Rachana

• Let Me Sink Today! - By Sonam Lama

• Nobody Ever Saw a Ballplayer Like This One - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Let Me Sink Today! - By Sonam Lama

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Showcase - Week of: 3/14-20/20

New Submissions:

• Minotaur of The Shadows - By Alexander Zoltai

• Shine On -  By Chris Platt

• Cell -  By Yash Seyedbagheri

• Some Mornings - By Shelly Norris

• Mind Fish - By Rajendra Ojha 

• All The Time - By Volume

• Tabula-rasa - By Sushant Thapa

• Princess Jasmine and Aladdin - By Moin Uddin

• Portuguese Plums - By Samantha Merz

• Just a Joy - By Henry Bladon

• The Epitome of Inconsideration - By Robert L. Scarry

• Waking You Up - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• Essential Elements - By Mike Turner

• The Things of Yesterday - By Abigail Moore

• Ill-fated - By Mara Allan

• St. Joseph's Staircase - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Portuguese Plums - By Samantha Merz

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Showcase - Week of: 3/7-13/20

New Submissions:

• The Old Goose - By Chris Platt

• The Minotaur’s Maze - By Alexander Zoltai

• The $80 Champion -  By Pete Black

• I Met A Beautiful Girl - By Moin Uddin

• I Have Moved Away - By Sushant Thapa

• Birthing a New You - By John C. Davis

• Begin Anew - By Mike Turner

• Play - By JayM

• To Love is to Earn Regrets - By Parbat Lawati

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Begin Anew - By Mike Turner

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Showcase - Week of: 2/29/20-3/6/20

New Submissions:

• Look for the Holes - By Robert Gluck

• Ghost Space - By Yash Seyedbagheri

• The Runner - By Mason Bushell

• Without a Paddle - By Don Noel

• Starting Anew - By Mike Turner

• The Roar of the Twenties - By Chris Platt

• The Scribe and The Sun of Truth - By Alexander Zoltai

• In This Pretty Sunny Morning - By Moin Uddin

• Echo Fields - By JayM

• Stains - By Shawn Cassidy

• Hair Shirt Preferred - By Sarah Henry

• Play - By Sushant Thapa

• Academic (Performance) Poet - By Henrik LeGrand

• When He Visits - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• Hunter - By KB Baltz

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Without a Paddle - By Don Noel

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Showcase - Week of: 2/8-14/20

New Submissions:

• Runaway Mother - By Yash Seyedbagheri

• Dirge - By Mehreen Ahmed

• Tea Stains At Borders - By Kashiana Singh

• The Second Life - By Steven Roisum

• No One Kills Accountants - By Tim Oke

• Redemption - By Alexander Zoltai

• This Moment Will Pass - By Moin Uddin

• Snow Games with Bull and Ibe - By Alex Almeida

• It's All Relative - By Robert L. Scarry

• The Chess Match - By Gary Beck

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Tea Stains At Borders - By Kashiana Singh

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Showcase - Week of: 2/1-7/20

New Submissions:

• Sundays at the Zoo - By Steve Carr

• Getting Away From Your Thoughts - By Moin Uddin

• Geometry - By Fabrice Poussin

• 2020 Writing Resolutions - By John F McMullen

• The Five - By Judy DeCroce

• Early to the Show - By Antoni Ooto

• The Unexpected Mythic Quest - By Alexander Zoltai

• Non Moments - By Ellen Dooling Reynard

• Balancing the Need for Risk With the Need for Security - By John C. Davis

• The Tragedy Of Queen Alexia - By Arthur Hofn

• Those Big Eyes - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• I Drown - By Arianna Sebo

• Partners - By Henry Bladon

• Silhouette and Shadow - By Catori Sarmiento

• Empowerment - By Mike Turner

• The Writing Life Revisited: Submissions and Other Forms of Self-Flaggelation - By John Krieg

• To the Madwoman - By Parbat Lawati

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• I Drown - By Arianna Sebo

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Showcase - Week of: 1/26-31/20

New Submissions:

• My Yin Yang Kin - By Simon Zec

• S/he Wanted To Become A Football Player - By Gerard Sarnat

• Waltz Of The Mothers - By Yash Seyedbagheri

• Parts To The Whole - By Mike Turner

• Not All Memories Are Good - By Robert L. Scarry

• Bouncing Golden Curls - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• The Dead Spider - By Martin White

• The Rain Merit Badge - By Alex Almeida

• Grandma and the Bennie - By Charlene Jones

• Longing - By Tyler R. Martin

• In Memoriam - By Holly Wright

• The Island War - By Alexander Zoltai

• What's Right!! - By Moin Uddin

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Grandma and the Bennie - By Charlene Jones

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Showcase - Week of: 1/19-25/20

New Submissions:

• A Father's Day - By Christine Corrigan

• Outta' My Window - By Robert L. Scarry

• Life or Love - By Cece Flow

• Opposites Attract - By Mike Turner

• Water Watching - By James Geehring

• Goose In The Kitchen - By Alex Almeida

• The Gifts of Grieving - By John C. Davis

• In Search Of An Identity - By Muniram Sharma Pokhrel

• A Land Beyond the Forest - By RC Lanzmann

• Roaches: The Great Infestation - By El Legados

• What Separation Sounds Like - By Christina Rauh Fishburne

• She Swallowed The Sun - By Christine Obst

• Liar's Ego - By Lauren Michelle

• Life Has Become Serious - By Alexandra de Fircks

• Deal - By Allistar Banks

• Lost Birthright - By Alexander Zoltai

• Oh Oh Baby, I Am Just Going Far Away - By Moin Uddin

• Sleep - By William Bailey

• Meeting The Missing Child’s Mother - By Parbat Lawati

• Rescuers - By Jbwriter

• Yellow - By Kelsey Taylor

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Life Has Become Serious - By Alexandra de Fircks

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Showcase - Week of: 1/12-18/20

New Submissions:

• I Know Why Men Light Fires - By Paul Strohm

• A Matter of Conscience - By Robert L. Scarry

• All I Asked Was Your Love - By Moin Uddin

• Time Of Death - By Joseph Arechavala

• War - By Sushant Thapa

• The Mountain Wizard - By Alexander Zoltai

• Edge Of Life - By James Geehring

• Eight Stone Three, Version 2 - By Ken Allan Dronsfield

• I Swear - By Kitta MacPherson

• A Poem About Mattresses - By Simon Zec

• Coma - By Charlie Vital

• Action-Reaction: Prologue - By Robert L. Scarry

• Bredica - By Edward Schmidt-Zorner

• Immortality Manifestations - By Lazarus DaGreat

• This Is Not A Drill - By Mike Turner

• Inka’s Curse Part 37 - By Cristina Collazo

• Living in a Mausoleum - By Simon Zec

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• I Swear - By Kitta MacPherson

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Showcase - Week of: 1/5-11/20

New Submissions:

• Early Birds - By Alex Almeida

• Do You Remember Me Like I Do For You? - By Moin Uddin

• The Boy In Red - By Sean J.H. Rubin

• As I Sit To Compose - By Sushant Thapa

• Something To Think About... - By Oscar Martinez

• Port of Call - By Mike Turner

• Khira - By Tshepo S. Molebatsi

• To My Future Self - By James Geehring

• Duck At Rest - By Adrienne Pilon

• City Seen From The Front Yard - By Parbat Lawati

• Desperado - By Alexander Zoltai

• Ghost In The Machine - By RayFed

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Duck At Rest - By Adrienne Pilon

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