Showcase - Week of: 8/22-28/20

New Submissions:

• Follow The Moon - By Lee Dunn

• Soft Drink - By Moin Uddin

• Naari - By Manisha Sultaniya

• Distance Distance Acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• Inner Storm - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• A Moment - By Mike Turner

• Putting on His Pants - By Pete Black

• About The Author - By Chris Platt

• Bad Day at the Park - By Cristina Collazo

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Inner Storm - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

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Showcase - Week of: 8/15-21/20

New Submissions:

• Glutton, thou wilst go! - By Dr. Gulrez Roshan Rahman

• Wayward Things - By Ivan Idea

• Chow-Chow - By Moin Uddin

• A Beautiful Soul - By Salman Khan Gurung

• The Night Watchman - By Chris Platt

• Beauty Props - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• The Rose and her Thorn - By Saniya Kolangde

• Ophelia - By Slyvia Rose

• Characters in My Poem - By Sushant Thapa

• Ecology - By Mike Turner

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Wayward Things - By Ivan Idea

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

New Submissions:

• Serotonin - By Slyvia Rose

• Lalmon - By Moin Uddin

• Togetherness acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• The Sound of Time - By Simple Sue

• The Gnome - By Chris Platt

• I'll Not Grow Old - By Clarissa Woonsocket

• Dog and Depression - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• A Plan - By Lee Dunn

• Wednesday at Grandma's - By Dresden Fear

• An Interview - By Cristina Collazo

• At Rock Bottom - By Pete Black

• Inside You - By Sushant Thapa

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• I'll Not Grow Old - By Clarissa Woonsocket

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Showcase - Week of: 8/1-7/20

New Submissions:

• Slip - By Zach Edson

• Disabled - By Kakoli Ghosh

• One Last Goodbye - By Simple Sue

• A Great Day to be Alive - By Thomas Hally

• In Threes - By Chris Platt

• Breaking Point - By Slyvia Rose

• 1951 - By DC Dismondopolous

• A Poem for Your Thoughts? - By S.L. Graf

• The Gamblers Lament and Other Works - By Joe Sonnenblick

• Sudden Change - By Mike Turner

• Refrain - By Sushant Thapa

• Change of Venue - By John-Ivan Palmer

• Laika - By Nick J

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Breaking Point - By Slyvia Rose

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Showcase - Week of: 7/25-31/20

New Submissions:

• Sudden Change Acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• Leave Your Clothes - By Sharon Esterly

• Expected Visitors - By Chris Platt

• The Stranger In Me - By Simple Sue

• Set-up Uniforms - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• The Closer the Dawn - By Bennie Rosa

• Highway Watcher - By Sushant Thapa

• Trapped - By Cristina Collazo

• Barfquake - By Robert Morgan Fisher

• Almost No Cat in the Hat - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Barfquake - By Robert Morgan Fisher

Showcase - Week of: 7/18-24/20

New Submissions:

• Waiting in Line - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• Good Intentions - By ThatOneFinnishGuy

• Chaos and Hatred - By Simple Sue

• In The Midst Of A Crisis - By Conrad Kaupo

• Symbolism Acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• Melt Her Heart - By Moin Uddin

• Paula's Magic - By Chris Platt

• Dreams - By Joyce Mendonça

• “O, Villanelle Villanelle!” a Villanelle - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Prayer, a Beggary - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Old Woods - By James Geehring

• Exist - By Omer Wissman

• Inka’s Curse Part 40 - By Cristina Collazo

• Symbols - By Mike Turner

• Dewdrops - By Sushant Thapa

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Dewdrops - By Sushant Thapa

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Showcase - Week of: 7/11-17/20

New Submissions:

• Traumatically In Love With Pain - By Becca Hulen

• Bipolar Epiphany - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Only In Dreams - By Chris Platt

• The Heroes In Life And Also In Histories - By Moin Uddin

• Don’t Drop Out - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Snow Globe - By Sarah Henry

• Breathe. - By Anissa Sboui Ben Mohamed

• Painless Pain - By Kakoli Ghosh

• Inka’s Curse Part 39 - By Cristina Collazo

• Life Full of Effort - By Adriaen Thibeault

• Thou, Mask - By Mike Turner

• The Power of My Future - By Sushant Thapa

• Lemme Mummify These All - By Sheharyar Lehri

• Not Today - By Justin Robinson

• Rocket Boy - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Not Today - By Justin Robinson

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Showcase - Week of: 7/4-10/20

New Submissions:

• Do Not Grief - By Bushra Toghar

• Uprising Upraise Think Acrostic - By Clinton Siegle

• The Painting of the House - By Chris Platt

• The Lily Plucked - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Rain - By Sushant Thapa

• It Hurts - By Kayson Vos

• Broken Pieces of Anger - By Moin Uddin

• Inka’s Curse Part 38 - By Cristina Collazo

• A View at the Trenches - By Mike Turner

• Grief - By Rajan Dutta

• Uprising Verses Speculation The Last of Humanity - By Clinton Siegle

• Let's Give Them Something To Talk About - By Elizabeth Sams

• Burt's Bees - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Let's Give Them Something To Talk About - By Elizabeth Sams

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Showcase - Week of: 6/27-7/3/20

New Submissions:

• “Of Love” - By Ngoc Nguyen

• A Cup Of Coffee - By Vasilissa

• The Edge - By Traci Campbell

• Dreams Of Edith - By Chris Platt

• That Aesthetic - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Flowers And Feathers - By Moin Uddin

• Awkward Awkward Uprising - By Clinton Siegle

• Uprising - By Mike Turner

• The Evening Sky - By Sushant Thapa

• Visits to the Louvre Museum - By Pete Black

• A Lynching for Justice - By Dresden Fear

• Small Heaven In A Suitcase - By Keketso Mashigo

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Small Heaven In A Suitcase - By Keketso Mashigo

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Showcase - Week of: 6/21-26/20

New Submissions:

• “O Muses! What Is Genius?...” - By Ngoc Nguyen

• That Phulkari Hand Embroidered Silk Linen Saree - By Moinak Dutta

• Kirigami - By Utpal Chakraborty

• Shattered In The Storms - By Moin Uddin

• Small World - By James Geehring

• Book of Beauty - By Maitri Verma

• The Resident of Pleasant Crescent - By Chris Platt

• Lunacy - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Which Color… - By Mike Turner

• The World of Words - By Sushant Thapa

• Belated - By Basudhara Roy

• Bitter or Better - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Shattered In The Storms - By Moin Uddin

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Showcase - Week of: 6/13-19/20

New Submissions:

• A Former Immigrant Juvenile's Feelings and Views on Race and Color in America - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Soul In His Eyes - By Enas R

• Edge of Eternity - By Wil McCarthy

• Over Hearing - By Chris Platt

• Green Desert - By Sushant Thapa

• Sweet Mélange - By Sharon Cunningham

• Old Doors - By Mike Turner

• New Light - By Gopal Lahiri

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• New Light - By Gopal Lahiri

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Showcase - Week of: 6/6-12/20

New Submissions:

• These Pages Are Not Finished Yet - By Lok Joshi

• An Offering - By April Hilland

• The Boy's Perfect - By Derek Nyberg

• The Divine Feminine - By Yuliya Runnels-Moss

• The Gift - By Chris Platt

• Beneath the Suburban Sky - By Sushant Thapa

• Among The Ocean Of Words - By Moin Uddin

• Hello Officer - By Matthew A. Lord

• Take No Rest - By Mike Turner

• Speaker, Subject, and Theme in Audre Lorde's “Hanging Fire” - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Saving Luna - By Pete Black

• A Day without HIM - By Soare Stapanire

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Boy's Perfect - By Derek Nyberg

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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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