Debby Hackbarth

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An Examination Of Exploration

… involves only transportation.

However, there are many forms of inquiry that deserve consideration. 

When you are learning a new skill, you…

By Debby Hackbarth

Humor To Every Situation

Rose's life brought joy…

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…was born in a lovely garden.

Her mother chose the name Rose. 

Immediately, Rose’s eyes did…

By Debby Hackbarth

Humorous Or Hurtful

Humor and finding joy can …

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…you’re unique, folks can be hurtful.

Their actions and words can be cruel.

How could they possibly be…

By Debby Hackbarth

A Furtive Find ...

Four friends were …

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… did they get there?”

All we could do was stare. 

“Was this someone’s secret…

By Debby Hackbarth

Mysterious Meandering

A weekly hike turns into …

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…an adventurous trio: two girls and a boy.

Our weekly treks throughout the woods generated joy.

One autumn hike brought cool…

By Debby Hackbarth

Marvelous Multiplicity

Being connected with others…

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… is diversity.

Diversity honors uniqueness.

Uniqueness promotes…

By Debby Hackbarth

 
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An Examination Of Exploration
Humor To Every Situation
Humorous Or Hurtful
A Furtive Find ...
Mysterious Meandering
Marvelous Multiplicity
Another Word For...
Mind Your Parents
Guard Yourself...
Darkness, Disaster, Dream
A Lifetime Of...

CraigE

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Yee Haw, Siddhartha!

… the owner of Carter’s Auto Salvage, Danny Lee Carter, spiked his wife’s and two tot’s supper Coca-Colas with crushed-up Ambien tablets, then dragged their somnolent bodies from the…

By CraigE

Parse This!

The story of a D+ Writer

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… lifetime of stringing paragraphs together, justified ones even, and not one character—in his case represented as a fictionalized person, letter…

By CraigE

Randy Boyle’s Rule Of 4s

… think people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are odd then consider the case of Randy Boyle. Going beyond the weirdness of doing everything in a…

By CraigE

A Writer’s Curse?

…professor’s unabashed praise of Calvin’s “exceptionally florid storytelling style” compelled him to make the life and career-changing decision to go big time. He was sure that with his diploma in hand, and the polished talent it took to earn it, he would be a LaLaLand A-Lister in no time; besides, with the...

By CraigE

Joe Ferguson’s Magic...

…n debt Iowa farmer Joe Ferguson loved his firearms—had a custom made oak cabinet full of the pampered killers of various calibers and an arsenal of ammunition…

By: CraigE

Grassy Ever After

Based on a true story.

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...he never smoked it, Harry Musterman loved grass; the other kind—the monocotyledon herbaceous plants whose seeds were...

By CraigE

 
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Yee Haw, Siddhartha!
Parse This!
Randy Boyle’s Rule Of 4s
A Writer’s Curse?
Joe Ferguson’s Magic...
Grassy Ever After
Don’t Go Messin…
The Tail of 3-Feathers
The Call Of The Domestics
It’s Kinda Like Australia…
Who Made Who?
Roy Robinson Oxley’s...

Jonna Kihlman

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Unseen Places

…to you, beneath the pine trees’ breath,

A whisper hidden, though it still remains.

The raven shadows my long-lost friend,

Spreading his wings in the moon’s…

By Jonna Kihlman

The Silver Lake

…lost something along the way.

A sliver of hope, a dash of faith.

A dream once carried, now lost in…

By Jonna Kihlman

The Hidden Reflection

…the hidden reflection of me.

The smuged image in the mirror I can longer see.

She is the sunbeam dancing in the leaves of the trees.

A shard of glas tricking my…

By Jonna Kihlman

Double Standards

…I'm judged so differently than you?

I do the things daily that you get praised to do.

I clean, pick up the kids clothes and no one says a word.

And yet, when you do it, it's to a…

By Jonna Kihlman

If I Went Back In Time

…I went back in time

and saw you again 

Sitting in the shade 

with a furrowed…

By Jonna Kihlman

Web Of Words

…web of words tied me to you.

Weawing threads so thick I couldn't break through.

Like tiny daggers that circled my arms,

continued to the side and bound…

By Jonna Kihlman

 
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Unseen Places
The Silver Lake
The Hidden Reflection
Double Standards
If I Went Back In Time
Web Of Words
Sun Beams And...
In My Imagination
The Owl Of...
The Forest At The End…
The Gem
Castle Of Ice
The Mermaid
My Father's Hands

Orbindu Ganga

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Beneath The Quiescent ...

… in the esthetical

Translucent mirage,

The bud yearned for the 

Habilimented dew…

By Orbindu Ganga

Liberty Of Thought

… thoughts have been sprawling. 

Faineant for some time. From their 

Genesis, they promenaded nigh me.

From being onlookers, they…

By Orbindu Ganga

The Shadow Of Karma

…thought I once designed 

Appeared to have cleansed away.

Watered it sufficiently and 

Gave my smile, offering…

By Orbindu Ganga

Auction Of Gravitas

…encased inside the glass,

All the corners looking at me.

Sans any ignominy, I gracefully

Posed for the creator…

By Orbindu Ganga

Night's Symphony...

…ne'er deludes the moon.

She endured the dark, perpetually,

Dwelling in exigency of light. 

Ne'er did she turn to…

By Orbindu Ganga

Blooms In The Heart…

… in past memories 

Of mulberry leaves, the caterpillar

Creeps tardily, mordacious small bitties.

She exudes…

By Orbind Ganga

 
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Beneath The Quiescent ...
Liberty Of Thought
The Shadow Of Karma
Auction Of Gravitas
Night's Symphony...
Blooms In The Heart…
Waves’ Gentle Melody
A Shattered Sanctuary
The Waiting Dust
The Street That...
Lost In Time, Echoes...
Leaving The Space...
The Nocturnal Heart
Soulful Reflections
The Sigh Of A…
The Undefined Self
The Bay’s Hidden Heart
Echoes Of Truth
Cleansing The Weeds
A Cry For Justice
Listening To The Unknown
The Silent Spectacle
Echoes Of Survival
Mendicant
Echoes of Spice...
From Blaze To Paradise
The Phoenix Fire
Echoes Of Falling Leaves
Waiting To Hear...
Tsunami

Audrine Max

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Incomprehensible Silence

…do not understand 

the words you speak

because I keep hearing 

the birds…

By Audrine Max

In Its Presence

…the most tempting

of all the fruits

that I found myself trapped in

and voraciously…

By Audrine Max

Intimacy Of A...

…single thought of her

my mind races wild

that even I

can't keep up with…

By Audrine Max

Within The Realms

…catch the wave

Never followed 

The signs prepped in line

Never jumped on…

By Audrine Max

All That She Is

… time she parts

Those lips to speak

It is only love

That pours…

By Audrine Max

Rustling with the Wind

…into the open field

where the grass and wheat

uninhibitedly danced with the wind

as if freedom and…

By Audrine Max

 
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Incomprehensible Silence
In Its Presence
Intimacy Of A...
Within The Realms
All That She Is
Rustling with the Wind
Amongst And In…
Music He Wrote
The Focal Point...
Applause Of Butterflies

Fadi Abu-Deeb

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Companionship

…hear those undulating chimes

coming from the depth of the forest?

Do you see the village

spell-bound by the music…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

A Wizard Is Never Late

…wavering glimpses in my head—

The scene of a luminous curve in a valley road

The zest of a new morning in a sunny pavilion 

Whispers of promises telling of a coming…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

Oblomov

Oblomov is the protagonist…

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... the last burst of joy in his life

Running beside the bicycle of his beloved woman

Drenched with nebulous…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

Clairvoyance

…have come

From all those humid and warm bazaars

From those home-streets of pricking noise

From the fields of fanaticism that turned…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

The Epiphany Of…

…in the middle of a snowy plain,

I throw my head upside down 

Toward the forest behind

Like a child trying to…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

Hiding Behind…

…digging up the root of madness,

I behold the tribes of our planet

putting off the peels of civilization;

I try to ward off the rays of the black…

By Fadi Abu-Deeb

 
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Companionship
A Wizard Is Never Late
Oblomov
Clairvoyance
The Epiphany Of…
Hiding Behind…
Did I Get Lost…
Why Are You Painting?
On Cosmic Poetry
The Eyes of the Perennial
Searching for the Mental Plant
City of Countless Boats
This Night, I Wonder…

Jennifer Forrest

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What Is Creativity?

…I have is a creative expression of my energy. I, soul, and the creator of my world, as my world is created through my thoughts. I can choose to have a world where I construct a positive atmosphere and find solutions to challenges That impede my world. Or I can…

By Jennifer Forrest

Who Determines What…

For me a complicated…

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…is a state of mind: what one culture considers to be unjust another will determine that situation to be perfectly acceptable. In order…

By Jennifer Forrest

Drama

…the cycle is about to end frees me from sorrow. I know what ever happens is accurate, as drama is…

By Jennifer Forrest

There's No Beginning…

Imagine time as a cycle

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…comes and goes it ever flows

there's no beginning there's no end 

round and round and round…

By Jennifer Forrest

Unlimited Treasure Trove

…I seek it there I seek it everywhere.

 It glitters it shine but it is not what I seek.

Oh where, Oh where, can it be found

on the mountains, by the…

By Jennifer Forrest

The Law Is The Law

Keep it simple

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…to various Religions a person receives, what they give. When a person performs good actions the return of the action is favourable. Sometimes the return of one's actions…

By Jennifer Forrest

 
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What Is Creativity?
Who Determines What…
Drama
There's No Beginning…
Unlimited Treasure Trove
The Law Is The Law
Cavedweller
The Soul Dances...
Facets Of Health
New Birth
A Tear
Reveal Me On...
Dark Déjà…
Faith A Foundation Virtue
I Am Wealthy…
Road Tripper
Disciplines of the Creator
Love Songs

Marc Charette

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Unsocial Order

…the days when the uneducated understood their limitations

Preferring to listen in measured acquiescence to scholarly advice,

whose true research follows obediently, the path of…

By Marc Charette

Voyage

…with me to the dark fed by light,

the hole beyond unknown...

Enter to exit, center of spiral

into gestalt of…

By Marc Charette

Still the Bombs Drop

…World in horror watches...

and still the bombs drop


A People cry out "Mercy!"...

and still the bombs…

By Marc Charette

A Gift

…walked up to him, reclining there in his beach chair,

feigning indifference, while surreptitiously evaluating

the youthful lithe form

Drifting as effortlessly over the…

By Marc Charette

Shared Harmonic

As a tribute to the weeks’ topic - Emotional, I offer you a slight twist in perspective on Emotions

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…Love to see what's rendered...

The components, to be used in corporate blunder

Is it biological, psychological, or magic…

By Marc Charette

Fractal Love

…deceiving, morphing

realities of time and place

What was once, is now, yet to be

for you and…

By Marc Charette

 
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Unsocial Order
Voyage
Still the Bombs Drop
A Gift
Shared Harmonic
Fractal Love
Grey
Rail Daze Stories - The Bump
Age of The Follower
ADD Dreams

DJ Elton

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Watching My Mother...

A young girl is watching…

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…surely help, she says, eyes beaming

Two parts cinnamon, one of cloves, another cardamon

Now you’ll be the cinnamon…

By DJ Elton

The Girl Knows

They think she's like this…

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…you’re a soft touch. Not one to be reckoned with

An easy target who can be used ridiculed abused misled

Taken advantage of by scammers…

By DJ Elton

They Can Be Angels

These girls are knowing…

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They are not sentimental these girls who wear the star and honour the eternal…

By DJ Elton

Coming Into 2024

Reflecting on joys and pain…

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…sickness plays its grounding edge

And the flowers or birds can’t be seen

Or heard; they hide from…

By D J Elton

Out of the Ashes

Nothing is static in this…

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…talk about new beginnings 

That which spring into action after an ending.

Could be a…

By DJ Elton

Treat Me Well...

My touchy relationship…

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…and I have a close connection

We go everywhere together.

I see myself through…

By DJ Elton

 
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Watching My Mother...
The Girl Knows
They Can Be Angels
Coming Into 2024
Out of the Ashes
Treat Me Well...
Romy's Dream
There Is No...
Bright Things...
Together They Did
He Cared And Won
Shiva Calls
Where She Likes To Be
Heart Yourself
Flat As A Tack
Free
Questing Paradise
Time is Now
Owning Bliss

Aadityaamlan Panda

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The Synapse Of Sentience

The poem is about an Indian…

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…not the amritam pervading thy eyes,

Melt into the stifling sands in vain,

As I surpass the synapse…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

The Homer Of Humour…

The poem describes the growth…

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…to the fate of Ceres’ heath,

Fostered a form by Hephaestus’ grace,

I persevered the edge of Cronus…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

Coronation In The...

I feel the best time to…

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…stayed embraced with adjourned snow,

Daintily surveyed by the peaceful dove,

Eros and Helios farewelled…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

The Derby To Destiny

…by the poppies of pride,

Thou harbour happ an heir to honour,

Ignoring instinct with avaricious abide.

Like light lures legions of…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

Renaissance Of Reckoning

…more to taste

The cynical confrontations of hopes

Acquiescing apparitions to rest

Apprehensions to…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

The Latent Ailment

…of those days bestirs my imagination. I know it is dead but...", Oliver said looking at the patterns engraved on the roof of Notre Dame. "Those arches, I know, are integral for its…

By Aadityaamlan Panda

 
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The Synapse Of Sentience
The Homer Of Humour…
Coronation In The...
The Derby To Destiny
Renaissance Of Reckoning
The Latent Ailment
The Spirit Of Nelumbo
Incumbent Narcissism
Intrinsic Schadenfreude…
Fated Fare...
Latent, Innate Incentive
The Genesis of Paradise
The Placid Seashore…
Haphazard Prolepsis…
Chronicles Of A Tree's Samaritanism
The Spring

Andy Cooper

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A Brother's Farewell…

…night, I heard voices when I slept. I thought I was losing it, something sick. A few months ago, my brother, Darren, split this world for another life. I’d left no tear wasted. When I got the news, I couldn’t bear to carry…

By Andy Cooper

Finding Forgiveness...

… about Jesus at a megachurch, but after her husband died four years back from headlights that crossed the center lane, the wind in her faith fell flat. Those around her prayed she’d come out of the slump the devil devised with an empty tomb in her…

By Andy Cooper

Camping Memories...

… Maryanne’s sleek,

crossed legs in her black dress

kept me from drifting to sleep.

I dreamed wide …

By Andy Cooper

Grapefruit: Life After Loss

…started with a grapefruit.

Sour, sweet, and bitter by taste.

After a doctor’s appointment,

Roslynn brought home the …

By Andy Cooper

Home Again

…was after Dad’s funeral

that my wife, Paisley, held

my hand as we entered

my vacant childhood…

By Andy Cooper

A Farewell...

…man, a wise man, told me

life was more than death;

concise, but the truth

of our youth was…

By Andy Cooper

 
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A Brother's Farewell…
Finding Forgiveness...
Camping Memories...
Grapefruit: Life After Loss
Home Again
A Farewell...
Coping with Loss...
Catfish And Cold Beer
From Dust To Stardust
Repairing Hearts
Winter's End
Merry Us
Temptation And Love
Luck In Pain
Holiday Love...
Grief Meets Love
When Cold Meets Emotion
From Ghosting To...
A Surprising Nursery...
October Treat
The Proposal
Love Beyond Wealth
Harper's New Beginning
Mending A Broken Heart
Divorce Court Drama
Poetic Fall
Love Blossomed
Lost Love Found
Coping With Grief
Ellie's Therapy

Benjamin Nambu

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Tailor This Cloth

…you spent an entire evening one Friday, helping with preparations for a key wedding the following…

By Benjamin Nambu

The Journey Is A Teacher

… you’re searching for the smartest way to start, the most impressive way to make an entry into an industry, the right moment to strike, the best climate under which to cultivate new habits, the morality of a new move, someone has…

By Benjamin Nambu

A Room With A…

…excuses we sow mature into good reasons to extend our stay. We do not realize how we have outgrown our new environment until moving on becomes expensive. It is then we realize…

By Benjamin Nambu

Emerge Victorious

…pretend all is well

I’ll return to where I fell

I’ll rehearse all I’ve learnt

I’ll recover all I’ve…

By Benjamin Nambu

Sophie

… job drives her nuts! She tries to keep calm, tries to act normal, tries to blend in with the others, but the cracks in the pretense are too visible. No wonder those who  worked there for over thirty years were tight friends with…

By Benjamin Nambu

Unbroken Streak

...headlamp in the sky

dims, another day goes by

An unbroken streak

That’s outlived the strong ...

By Benjamin Nambu

 
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Tailor This Cloth
The Journey Is A Teacher
A Room With A…
Emerge Victorious
Sophie
Unbroken Streak
Missing Cigarettes
Sail On Time
Renewal Marriage Contract
Shine
Dilemma
Glistening In The Distance
Just A Thought
Only A Spectator
What Have We...
Shall We Begin?
When Courage Frays…
A Moving Song
It's Not Easy
Bloom With Cheerfulness
One Starless Night
Connections
Overflow
A Happy Couple
Date
Beyond The Noise
Man Of God
It's Her Eyes
Tension
Keep Rising

Petrouchka Alexieva

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Pegasus On Strike

The winged unicorn is called...

—

...sitting at my corner this morning 

thinking to write something poetic,

Something for...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

The Future Is Here…

AI technologies and their...

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... concepts from two years ago are already old

and the gasoline powered ones...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

Technology – Where…

...sent his fancy suits to space

testing their quality to work on Mars, 

but lacking stars on every slide on the tape. 

Next Hollywood set? Oh, no...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

First Thing I See

“The woman with red shoes...

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... coming home, first thing I see

is my pair of elegant shoes

for the next run...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

Free on My Spiritual...

... the dust from within;

scrap the pain from the shelf of my heart.

Sift the feelings, keep only ones 

that brighten my...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

I Keep Stitching...

Love is sweet and...

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...no more romantic affair”

and locked my heart for long-time repair.

Since the time you had...

By Petrouchka Alexieva

 
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Pegasus On Strike
The Future Is Here…
Technology – Where…
First Thing I See
Free on My Spiritual...
I Keep Stitching...
Well-Woven Trap
Any Honest Politician Left?
Guided By The Magic Of…
Dating On The Social Media…
Oranges For Christmas
Get Out Of This Swamp!
My Magical Garden...
Lâdo lē, Lâdo!...
Oh, Holly Lady Of Fire
The Fire Game
I Can Sing...
I Sing Every Verse…
Peace Really Exists
Two Kids On The Beach
Cotton Candy...
My Fluffy Pillow…
Singing Clouds
The Gold Liquid...
I'm A Book...
Proposal…
Internet Prison
Internet Long...
In This Floating...
I Came As A...

Giulio Magrini

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Becoming A Little…

…old ones deliberately slid by, like an earthworm after a dreary and remorseless rain. My alternatives were to squish them, or scrutinize with wonder. Seniors mingled in…

By Giulio Magrini

Speech Of Angels

There is more to language…

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…of language

Clumsy floating variables

To share the totality…

By Giulio Magrini

Foglie Di Zafferano

Written in Italian and translated to English

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…foglie di zafferano

Riflessa nell'acqua

Aspetta con…

By Giulio Magrini

The Old Man and...

…gaze in the mirror like I used to

But when I do I see Papa staring back

He seems so tired

The energy used 52 years…

By Giulio Magrini

Vince To Rachel…

For All Lovers

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...time

I love you

A flake of…

By Giulio Magrini

The Pittsburgher

A memorial for Richard Caliguiri…

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…of wet

Glisten and descend

From the clouds over…

By Giulio Magrini

 
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Becoming A Little…
Speech Of Angels
Foglie Di Zafferano
The Old Man and...
Vince To Rachel…
The Pittsburgher
Turning The Channel…
Better to Be Born...
After the Strawberry Man
Artists And The Intelligentsia
My Life in Empty Space
No You Cannot Write Poetry
The Life Upstairs

Linda Troxell

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Heaven's Big Top

…vast cosmic circus, 

A juggler tosses stars.

As Saturn stands counting heads, 

To determine who is present and…

By Linda Troxell

Our Path To Salvation

There is a difference…

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…morning breeze has secrets to tell you. 

Do not go back to sleep. 

Listen to the whistle of the wind…

By Linda Troxell

For Jacob

The United States has a…

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…man was shot down in the street today.

His name is Jacob and he is someone's dad. 

Seven shots to the back was all it…

By Linda Troxell

Timeless Friends

Friendships come and go…

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…day you packed and went away, 

I thought I'd lost a friend. 

That the closeness and the love…

By Linda Troxell

Unsure, Afraid, Insane

When you know what…

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…I am once again, 

Unsure, afraid, insane. 

Emotion surging through…

By Linda Troxell

The Christmas I Prayed For

The Lord works in mysterious…

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…of my family's Christian walk has meandered through many stages, each with a different theme. Sometimes we walked together, other times…

By Linda Troxell

 
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Heaven's Big Top
Our Path To Salvation
For Jacob
Timeless Friends
Unsure, Afraid, Insane
The Christmas I Prayed For
Be The One
Don't Let Me…
From the Mind...
Heaven and Hell
Calling Into The Void
A Cross To Bear
A Covenant With God…
This Journey
Watch The Hatred Burn
Nostalgic Daydream
Cosmic Roll...
What Do I Want…
Can I Touch Your Love?
Do We Have the Courage?
After So Long
A Whole Woman
Endless Free Fall
Circles That Beckon Me
A Friendship Born Of Fate
The Stranger
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and...
Joy Comes In The Morning
Against All Odds
Memories Of My Brother

Grace Y. Estevez

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Oblivious Joy

…wish at times to

blind my eyes.

Unknow the truth

from time to…

By Grace Y. Estevez

Life

…always get better,

humming to my heartbeats song.

Smiling through the rough weather,

will help sorrows march…

By Grace Y. Estevez 

So Long

…used to be

lives in your eyes,

a tarnished key

holds all…

By Grace Y. Estevez

Jupiter

…disguised as a tree branch

can stand quite still to reach attack,

wears a sweet smile while stabbing backs,

carries pink hues, to hide…

By Grace Y. Estevez 

Life's Tale

…stories fill the night,

an endless tale under the sky,

the greenest forest twinkles bright,

inspiring hopes so…

By Grace Y. Estevez 

Battle

…could shield your pain,

absolve your loss and provide gain,

protect you from the hard cold rain,

assure that joy runs…

By Grace Y. Estevez 

 
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Oblivious Joy
Life
So Long
Jupiter
Life's Tale
Battle
Compensate
Possibility
One
Value
Greed
Rebuild
Pick
Reinvent
Desires
Ballerina
Wonderland
Unease
Mending
Infinite Presence
Span
Handmade
Unveiling
Mentor
Presence
Listen
Infinite Dad
Caretaker

Fran Pearce

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Night And Day

…awaiting its greeting from me and thee.

Within the night snuggle mystery and winsome delight.

Within the day, our hopes shine bright.

Wisps of the future, sighs of the past…

By Fran Pearce

Just A Thought

…cyst until it is a mass

A mass is just a mass until it is cancer

Cancer is just cancer.

Come with…

By Fran Pearce

Silver Threads

…Umbilical,

Biblical, Empirical

Tinier than the tiniest speck in WhoVille,

Greater than the…

By Fran Pearce

Her Heart Cried…

…laughing, she was not.

He cherished the moment, she did not.

He floated on their gentle kisses, she did not.

He reveled in their…

By Fran Pearce

Peace Out!

…think so. I really don’t.

What’d they take?

Oh, not much. Just my soul.

Your soul? This is crazy…

By Fran Pearce

Movin' On

Jimmy Buffet

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…cry, we can roll in the  mist

Sing, swing, sway and twist

Laugh, cry, and know the…

By Fran Pearce

 
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Night And Day
Just A Thought
Silver Threads
Her Heart Cried…
Peace Out!
Movin' On
Oh, Mamma!
Faith Joyce
Daddy Days
Route 66
The Flight Of...
Discipline? Creativity...
God's Escrow
The Human Prospective
Gone but Not Forgotten
Falling In…
Sad, Sad Side...
Sowing, Weeding, Growing
Just Life
Once Upon A Starry…
June 14, 1946 10:54 AM
Take The Plunge
Across the Pond
An Atheist Feminist…
Life Solstice
Between The Raindrops
Basics
Color Me Crazy
By Any Other Name
Meant to Be!

Russell Willis

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It Is Magic After All

Listening to Bella Voce…

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…is magic after all

Noise no longer noise

Sound unrendered by…

By Russell Willis

That Other Stuff

A poem about the stuff of…

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…are the stuff of knowledge.

Let fly the mind and heart and soul

To find that other…

By Russell Willis

We Are The Both

Life is grey or…

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…are the both

always competing

yet most of the time…

By Russell Willis

Goodbye, Rosalynn...

A memory of meeting…

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…I can smell things frying: corndogs, doughnuts, turkey wings, and any number of other members of several food groups.  The first tingles of the coming winter and blowing dust…

By Russell Willis

This Old Brick Church

About the historic brick…

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…at a crossroads

this old brick church,

straddles…

By Russell Willis

It Doesn't Give Me Hope

I once heard someone sigh…

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…is so much

That doesn’t give me hope

There is much more…

By Russell Willis

 
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It Is Magic After All
That Other Stuff
We Are The Both
Goodbye, Rosalynn...
This Old Brick Church
It Doesn't Give Me Hope
How Hard It Is...
Causes Lost or Losing
Alone In The Universe?
Monometer
It’s Been A Long Time
On Character
Discernment
Poet's Passion
From the Very Last Seat
Gentle Kiss of New Year’s Eve
Memorial Day
Remember
The Moon It Fell
Wandering Around the Truth
Small Courages

Nolcha Fox

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Hope Is

…in shadows.

She looks through

the cobwebs

and…

By Nolcha Fox

Oranges

I wrote this poem for my…

———
…the citrus sunset

brought you to my table.

You peeled an…

By Nolcha Fox

I Ride In A Barrel

…waterfall of regrets.

How do I return time I borrowed 

from childhood to act older than my years?

Now that my future…

By Nolcha Fox

I Carried You

I grieved when my brother killed…

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…trapped in a box, beribboned.

Your hair blond halo in the wind,

your eyes blue marbles…

By Nolcha Fox

See This

When we can't trust…

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…promise. Broken.

Armor. Useless. See.

This…

By Nolcha Fox

Glad You Called

Sometimes we have…

————

…hello. It’s been a while.

A year, you say. H.ow are 

the kids? I know you’re…

By Nolcha Fox

 
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Hope Is
Oranges
I Ride In A Barrel
I Carried You
See This
Glad You Called
You Are A Swan
She Was Dying
We’re Bubbles
She’s A Wild Thing
Where Do You Go
Dirty Hands
Seasons Change
When I Lose My Mind
Another Drive-by
I Asked The Birds
Let Me Endure
Morning Is A River
The Journey's Never Over
I Thought Us Close
Soggy Socks
Words Into Elephants
Expired
Deferred
If I Were A Woman
Awkward

Emmatobs

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Cheers To The Journey

I dedicate this poem…

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… to the spark that starts the flame,  

Cheers to the risk, the thrill, the game.  

Cheers to the moments we chase…

By Emmatobs

Elysium Of Shadows

The poem "Elysium of…

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…realms where shadows conflate,  

A nymph traverses, spun from fate.  

Her laughter, a murmuration of…

By Emmatobs

Only A Smile

…painful realm, full of bumps and holes 

It only takes a smile to make…

By Emmatobs

Happy Birthday…

Every 18th Of August serve…

————

…world that's filled with love and light

There shines a beacon, pure and bright

For a friend so dear…

By Emmatobs

I AM BLACK

Today, 25th of May, 2023, is a beautiful…

————

…of colonialism is put to the center age

And intensely illuminated by the flame of liberty

To fight for their…

By Emmatobs

Letter To My World

This is my confession to you…

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…leaves falling down

Like a tear rolls down my face

Mother you've been such…

By Emmatobs

 
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Cheers To The Journey
Elysium Of Shadows
Only A Smile
Happy Birthday…
I AM BLACK
Letter To My World
Green
Bloody Past
Poetry In The Rain...
Things Fall Apart Again
Daydream
About The Club
Is Love A Crime?
Happy World Poet's Day
That Love Of Mine
My Old Roads
His Last Breath
Letter To My Little Jojo
A Piece of Advice
Silence In Solitude
Cut Lives Short
Who Is To Blame
Ticket To Hell
Realm Of His Story
Mental Note
Disease Of Ideology
The Child Of Sorrow
The Skin Walker
A Country Of 419