Showcase - Week of: 11/28-12/5/20

New Submissions:

• Resilience - By Manisha Sultaniya

• Identity: Who Am I Really? - By Clinton Siegle

• The Extraordinary You - By John C. Davis

• Distortion of Concentration - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Minimum Payment - By Chris Platt

• Identity - By Mike Turner

• Growing Older - By Sushant Thapa

• Gifted Time - By Tracey Ross

• I'm Sick - By Lisa Michel

• The Following - By Lee Dunn

• An Irrevocable Decision - By Steven Jakobi

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• I'm Sick - By Lisa Michel

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Showcase - Week of: 11/21-27/20

New Submissions:

• Sunset - By James Geehring

• Ubasute - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Patient - By Chris Platt

• Jacked Up - By Tracey Ross

• Don't Move My Friend, Stay Here! - By Sheharyar Lehri

• Feeding Demons - By Becca Hulen

• Oh, How We've Changed - By Dresden Fear

• Ambience - By Sushant Thapa

• Partake of the Blues - By Mike Turner

• The Season Changed - By Moin Uddin

• Poetry and Night - By Satabdi Saha

• Love, Hatred and Politics - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Tears Tell Of Pandemic Tales - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Oh, How We've Changed - By Dresden Fear

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Showcase - Week of: 11/14-20/20

New Submissions:

• Historic Lies - By Tracey Ross

• A Sonnet by an "Other" - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Old Timer - By Chris Platt

• Darkness Revisited - By Sushant Thapa

• Comanche Woman - By John O'Donovan

• Quiet Places - By Joyce Mendonça

• Be The Person Of Words - By Moin Uddin

• Everyone Doesn't Want to Be President - By Sarah Henry

• Oh, the Blues - By Mike Turner

• Solace in the Dearth - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• The Protest's Surprises - By Bushra Tughar

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Comanche Woman - By John O'Donovan

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Showcase - Week of: 11/7-13/20

New Submissions:

• Recovered - By Tracey Ross

• My Literature - By Lok Joshi

• Death Valley - By Rose Menyon Heflin

• Age of Facilities - By Sushant Thapa

• Therapy - By Chris Platt

• When Ash Falls - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Tides Of Possibilities - By Moin Uddin

• Safe Harbor - By DC Diamondopolous

• Alone? Sure I Live Alone - By Clinton Siegle

• Stranded in a Litter Box - By Brad Kollus

• A Chase Of Absurdity - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• What I Did At The Temple - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Tunnel Ahead - By Meryl Baer

• The Day of the Grizzly Dead - By Barbara A Meier

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Stranded in a Litter Box - By Brad Kollus

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Showcase - Week of: 10/31/20-11/6/20

New Submissions:

• Can We Rebuild? - By Tracey Ross

• Little Sparrow, What Troubles Thee...? - By Ngoc Nguyen

• That House - By Inês Reis

• On the Dark Road - By Chris Platt

• Never Take A Break - By Moin Uddin

• Hollywood Home - By Sarah Henry

• Back Here Alone Again - By Mike Turner

• Rapists Yet Unraped - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• Grinding Halt - By James Macdonald

• Sleepless Nights - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Mistress Of The Wood - By James Geehring

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Hollywood Home - By Sarah Henry

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Showcase - Week of: 10/24-30/20

New Submissions:

• No One is Perfect - By Dresdin Fear

• The Secret of the Carter Children - By Chris Platt

• A Chain of Chases - By Anonymous

• Never Settle With Mediocrity - By Moin Uddin

• Mercy Disregarded - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• Memory - By Jonathan Dyer

• Slay It Forward - By Steven Roisum

• Assistance - By Clinton Siegle

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Slay It Forward - By Steven Roisum

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Showcase - Week of: 10/17-23/20

New Submissions:

• Awakening - By Kakoli Ghosh

• Setting Sail - By James Geehring

• Be The True You - By Moin Uddin

• A Mother From a Retirement Home - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• The Latecomer - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Old People Dance in Private - By Jill Clark

• We’re All People - By Mike Turner

• The Dig - By Chris Platt

• Something's Wrong - By Ronda Ruthson

• Tiny Humans - By Bossom Reads

• Kruella A Daughters Tale - By Sharron K Hope

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• A Mother From a Retirement Home - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

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Showcase - Week of: 10/10-16/20

New Submissions:

• Social - By Sushant Thapa

• An Aged Mother’s Reflection - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Age of Loving - By Moin Uddin

• Resolve - By Jonathan Dyer

• Magia - By Mary Anna Kruch

• Youth, the Fleeting Spring of Early Life - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Innocence/Experience - By Mike Turner

• The Apartment - By Donte-highwater

• The Mausoleum - By Anita G. Gorman

• Poem in Which My Old Man Hitches a Ride - By Greg Zeck

• The Breadline Champions - By Pete Black

• Goodnight Shark - By Margo Rife

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Apartment - By Donte-highwater

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Showcase - Week of: 10/2-9/20

New Submissions:

• When They Play - By Chris Platt

• Happiness - By Sushant Thapa

• Faith and Desires - By Moin Uddin

• Flame - By Donte-highwater

• Hermitically Sealed - By Mike Turner

• Inference - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Family - By Clinton Siegle

• Goodbye Mind - By Anonymous

• Strangers in the Garden - By Jonathan Dyer

• On The Rim of Your Whims - By Leah Holbrook Sackett

• Wine - By Kakoli Ghosh

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Hermitically Sealed - By Mike Turner

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Showcase - Week of: 9/26-10/2/20

New Submissions:

• Asilomar - By Jonathan Dyer

• What Fun Parties - By Ana Sylvia Rose

• The Cell Phones Amid - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• It's Difficult To Be Humans - By Moin Uddin

• Is Vic There? - By Chris Platt

• Liberty - By Sudithi H.N

• Tea Time - By James Geehring

• Darkened Thoughts - By Mike Turner

• We Are Still Supposed To Be Slaves - By G B Lynch

• Memory Lane - By Sushant Thapa

• Man of the Millennium - By Pete Black

• Soul - By Kakoli Ghosh

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Soul - By Kakoli Ghosh

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Showcase - Week of: 9/19-25/20

New Submissions:

• One True Self - By Chris Platt

• Dark Thoughts - By Clinton Siegle

• Museum Piece - By Jonathan Dyer

• Graveyard and Their Dreams - By Sushant Thapa

• Legacy of Love - By Moin Uddin

• Bye Momma - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Road - By Cristina Collazo

• Maelstrom - By Mike Turner

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Museum Piece - By Jonathan Dyer

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Showcase - Week of: 9/12-18/20

New Submissions:

• Silence - By Sushant Thapa

• You Can Trust Me - By Eleni Cay

• Embracing Isolation Diary Entry - By Clinton Siegle

• Hyperventilating - By Jonathan Dyer

• Reality - By Manisha Sultaniya

• Toads on Lily Pads - By Mehreen Ahmed

• Battles - By Satabdi Saha

• Boxes - By James Geehring

• Parallel Lives - By Chris Platt

• The Fall of a Star - By Anissa Sboui

• You Are Alone, and You Are Connected - By John C. Davis

• Steve Jobs - By Bushra Toghar

• होस म बन्दिन कवि - By Lok Raj Joshi

• Silence - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• Ramble - By Ana Sylvia Rose

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Toads on Lily Pads - By Mehreen Ahmed

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Showcase - Week of: 9/5-11/20

New Submissions:

• Climber - By Achut Raj Kattel

• Trance - By Kakoli Ghosh

• The Shadow Within - By Sushant Thapa

• The Patient - By Chris Platt

• Unsaid - By Player of Words

• Pani Puri - By Moin Uddin

• "Trump Chronicles" Excerpt - By Lee Balan

• Trends - By Nikhil Subedi

• Fall - By Jonathan Dyer

• Paradox - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• The Many Apologies of Orville Carmody - By Bennie Rosa

• Carnal Knowing - By Elizabeth Sams

• Endurance - By Pete Black

• Loneliness and Solitude - By Mike Turner

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Trends - By Nikhil Subedi

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Showcase - Week of: 8/29/20-9/4/20

New Submissions:

• Soul Set Free - By Sushant Thapa

• Mero Sundar Nepal - Manisha Sultaniya

• Florsheim On My Mind - By Judge Burdon

• The Lost Poem - By James Geehring

• High Hopes - By Chris Platt

• Thukpa - By Moin Uddin

• Revolution - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• The Heraklion Gambit: A Nick Temple File - By Jonathan Dyer

• Distancing - By Mike Turner

• Stick Figures - By Mehreen Ahmed

• Mr. Yellow Jacket - By Pete Black

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Florsheim On My Mind - By Judge Burdon

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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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