Judge Santiago Burdon

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Leave Well Enough Alone

Life on the streets

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…at the ground while I walked around a vacant lot in  the Inner City without purpose, I discovered under leaves and  grass clippings an incredible amount of cigarette butts, beer cans, broken bottles and…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

Another Fish Story

Story told by Irish Fisherman

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…week and decided to visit Ireland and enjoy the quaint ambience of small  fishing towns dotting the coast. My first introduction was Kinsale in County Cork, a fishing village with the…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

Grizzly Tale

Story told first hand…

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…I've never seen a bear in the wild." Two Pair said sitting next to me at the poker…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

That Kind Of Stuff

…for only a short while. I had it right in my hands. I’m still not sure if it escaped my grasp or if I intentionally let it go. I'll tell you this though, if there's a chance in hell to just touch it for a brief moment once again, I’d consider myself a lucky man. I bet there’s plenty more sorry bastards…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

Suffering Pleasure

…light candles throughout my Studio apartment not so much as to create a romantic or Gothic ambience, but instead to be able to navigate around my four hundred square foot living space with a small amount of light. Evidently, it seems my…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

December 10th 1967

Witnessed the plane crash of music legend

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…and I was an awkward fourteen years old. The Old Man and I had just spent the weekend at the cottage in Adams County Wisconsin winterizing the place. All water lines were thoroughly drained and blown out to eliminate any water they might…

By Judge Santiago Burdon

 
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Leave Well Enough Alone
Another Fish Story
Grizzly Tale
That Kind Of Stuff
Suffering Pleasure
December 10th 1967
Better Than Ezra
Boondocks Part 2
Boondocks...
Tex and CoTex
...Key Lime Pie
The Director
The Gargoyle Yawns
Wake Me Up When I'm Famous
Wooly Bully
Black Moon Promise
Get Forked
Growing Old
Two Dollar Talisman
Love Is A Stolen Car

Margaret Karim

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Camouflage

... time for laughter

Childish glee

Must seek work

Before they are...

By Margaret Karim

Solace

…recall your fingers

Stroking my face

Arms drawing me

Into a gentle…

Discovery

…many years

Stomach protruding

Too many beers?

Hedonism,…

By Margaret Karim

Global Game

…of power

Endless, global game

Powerless

Bow head in…

By Margaret Karim

Tomorrow

…is a Survivor

Stories to tell

Never does

Why revisit…

By Margaret Karim

Older Adults

…faces wear the past

Experience in each fold, wrinkle

Minds a treasure trove of knowledge

Irreverent eyes never fail…

By Margaret Karim

 
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Camouflage
Solace
Discovery
Global Game
Tomorrow
Older Adults
Essence of Love
Unwelcome Intrusion
Reassuring
Old Faithful
Town's Son
Guardian
Grateful
Regret
Daily Fray
Be At Ease
Forever Yours
Conscience
She Is Not There
Imprint
Spirit At Peace
Bewildered Eyes
Initial Grief
Born To Roam Free
Futile
In Control
Oasis
Never Change
Snapshots…
Self Love

Andrew Scott

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The Compass

… though I am in the middle of a compass.

Bewildered feelings on the direction to take.

Each direction clouded by fog.

Unable to see in the…

By Andrew Scott

Protect Me

…at the night sky

feeling the dark, cold breeze.

I listen for your voice

coming through…

By Andrew Scott

The Beautiful Beast

…not see what she sees.

I am an ugly skinned man,

half-full of angry rage.

I hid my physical being…

By Andrew Scott

Journey Of Healing

...quiet moment of this hectic life

is a time of reflection and thought

in this journey of healing.

Each day, searching for that...

By Andrew Scott

Rest High

…and rest high

knowing how all who you touched

feel about their time with you. 

We shared in your…

By Andrew Scott

Naked

…they are one.

Two bodies, one beautiful soul

with the tender touch they both share.

The inner thoughts…

By Andrew Scott

 
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The Compass
Protect Me
The Beautiful Beast
Journey Of Healing
Rest High
Naked
Soul Searching
Off Today
Gypsy’s Mandilion
Your Light
No Words
The Healed Wings
The Temptress Witch
The Road Traveled Back
Sun In The Falling Rain
Lost In The Moment
Not Inspired Today
Guiding Star
Romantic Highways
Whispering Waves
The Climb
The Road Unknown
Touch The Sky
Signs and Symbols
Train Whistle
The Bench
The Snake's Resolve
The Drawn Hands of Hope
Rainy Day In The Junction
Healing Beads

Marc O'Brien

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The Mysterious Explorer

A Mysterious Explorer …

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Wearing gloves, scarfs and hats, the three kids enjoyed final crystal placid lake winter…

By Marc OBrien

Feeding A Healthy...

Dinner time rings the bell…

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…a big joke to everyone,” exclaimed Paulie while tending the fields, commentary catching the Zebra’s attention, “one way, I am this royal highness figure born into a special life with all things planned out, and all I have to do is stand here in the field watching the Zebra…

By Marc OBrien

The Mystery Of The Blue...

A Mysterious Blue And Yellow…

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…festive holiday glowing postcard display turned angry within a couple weeks as blustery uncomfortable ice menaced anyone in its path creating slipping, sliding and…

By Marc OBrien

Royal Diversity

Diversity is discussed…

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… a simple equation, Paulie’s three-character social group had the perfect sampling, explaining the diversity definition in the competitive…

By Marc OBrien

The Night Of The…

How do you ward off…

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…the cloudless evening sprinkling illuminating stars, a large roar exploded shaking the striped ones stall, “Zebra,” Paulie calmly comforted, “those loud mechanical monsters are never going to replace…

By Marc OBrien

Friendly Loyalty

Paulie Travels The…

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… inside the morally wooded forest whose temperature was taken by a crystal placid lake, glistening in the sun, protected when shade eased in and out. Sitting at its bank, Paulie pondered his youthful maturity and how information effects his world’s …

By Marc OBrien

 
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The Mysterious Explorer
Feeding A Healthy...
The Mystery Of The Blue...
Royal Diversity
The Night Of The…
Friendly Loyalty
Medal The Manipulative Hedgehog
Addicted To Information
The Goodwill Dream
Christmas In July
The Captain And...
Paving For Growth
Competing With Fluff
Knowing Tourist Season
Trigger Point
The Zebra Confessional
Blue Print Imagination
The Reality Triangle
Mother And Son Talk
In Search Of...
The Friendly Conversation
The Saddest…
The Lucky...
Building An Ice...
A Recipe Proposal
Therapy Between Friends
Field Of Green
Food For Thought...
Italian Style Emotional...
The Bionic Angel

Sarah Henry

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The Christmas Dog

…Yule log burns

in the fireplace.

A big dachshund

rests…

By Sarah Henry

The End Times

…living

in the end times.

Fire burns parts

of the…

By Sarah Henry

TV Show Doctor

…I went to drama school

without my face, they’d

have laughed me out

of the…

By Sarah Henry

Everyone Doesn't Want to Be President

Managing adversity by avoiding it.

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…doesn’t want to

address a…

By Sarah Henry

Hollywood Home

…your home,

old movie stars

have their place.

Who were…

By Sarah Henry

Snow Globe

…was the shyest girl in the high

school class and went…

By Sarah Henry

 
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The Christmas Dog
The End Times
TV Show Doctor
Everyone Doesn't Want to Be President
Hollywood Home
Snow Globe
My Big Day
Psychic Predictions
Hair Shirt Preferred

Stephen Barile

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Cantua Creek

…first explored by Spanish Army troops

From the mission at San Juan Baptista,

Led by Jose de Guadalupe…

By Stephen Barile

Mineral King Road

“We consider the new mines…

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…was worthless,

Getting to the mines was everything.

Three-thousand dollars was raised…

By Stephen Barile

A Tiny White Stucco House

To venture inside

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…and grief pursued him,

Not unlike his needing a shave,

when he turned…

By Stephen Barile

Grinding Wheel

Where the buttress of concrete Stands…

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…the freeway came, there were

Small houses, in neat, squared off rows,

On San Benito Street. Tiny front yards…

By Stephen Barile

The Ghosts of Joaquin Rocks

…party of Mexican deer hunters

In the New Idria Mining District,

On the eastern edge of the…

By Stephen Barile

Cotton

Tulare Lake mostly disappeared

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…Lake mostly disappeared

It’s life ended, the lakebed sold

To agricultural…

By Stephen Barile

 
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Cantua Creek
Mineral King Road
A Tiny White Stucco House
Grinding Wheel
The Ghosts of Joaquin Rocks
Cotton
Opéra Candélabre
Le Quartier Latin
Lunch With Paul No. 9
Lunch With Paul No. 8.
Lunch With Paul No. 7
Lunch With Paul No. 6 The Blossom Trail Café
Lunch with Paul, No. 5
Lunch with Paul No.4 Chef Paul's Cafe
Lunch with Paul No 2 Flightline Cafe
Lunch with Paul #3 Santa Fe Basque Hotel
The Original Caffé Midí
Lunch with Paul

Becca Hulen

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The Ramblings Of The Lost…

…say you can’t pour from an empty cup.. I’ve been pouring from my core till the end of the root and somehow keep finding more even in the endless…

By Becca Hulen

Where Did She Go?

…filled with life that I drove people insane with incessant talking… 

Now I find I have nothing to say and it’s weird…

By Becca Hulen

Chakra Trauma

…is a death sentence to which there is no repentance… damaged so deep it’s surpasses the vein and rests within my…

By Becca Hulen

I’ve Heard This...

…crave idealize 

I disvalue myself 

I live with…

By Becca Hulen

I Wish You Could…

…words to unlock the cage containing your pain

I wish I could walk into the cell and absorb all the heavy

To make you weightless while my…

By Becca Hulen

The Injustice of Losing...

…so much rage at the injustice

Rage at the love I’ve never felt

Rage at the love I thought was real

Rage at my…

By Becca Hulen

 
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The Ramblings Of The Lost…
Where Did She Go?
Chakra Trauma
I’ve Heard This...
I Wish You Could…
The Injustice of Losing...
My Ghost
Fresh Start
Memories Keep You Afloat...
I’m Starving For Your Lies
Unforgiven
Feeding Demons
Traumatically In Love With Pain
Judgment Day
Traumatized Thoughts
The Prison Of Submission
You were a chapter, not the book
Demonic Oppression
What Goes Up, Must Come Down
The Call of the Void

K. L. Shipley

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Brrr . . .

The Fuegian's had …

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…first word after stepping from cabin to deck was probably - brrr . . . Tierra del Fuego is cold all year long; spring, summer, winter, and fall, nearly indistinguishable winter temperature soar to as high as …

By K. L. Shipley

Tropical Clucking

You’re hopeless…

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…you never notice anything. We were roosted there, minding are own business, then click, click, click. that lady started clicking…

By K. L. Shipley

Just Kidding

There is a dark side…

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… business, this business of humor; dangerous, too, comedians are always talking about, “killin’ their audience. Ordinary folk, in a fit of laughter say, “Stop, stop, please, your killin’ me!”! When a comedian fails to get laughs…

By K. L. Shipley

The Mystery Of Amelia

Legend never dies.

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… the 2nd of July, not a cloud was in the sky. Amelia Erhart went flying high that day. ith her partner, Capt. Noone, She sailed off into the sky, And fell into the ocean, far away. Here’s to you, here’s to you, Amelia Erhart, America’s first lady of the…

By K. L. Shipley

Bamboo Dancing...

Plain stuff is shrouded…

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…of snow set the bamboo in motion. It seems as though the bamboo is dancing in savage celebration of the winter storm. Nonsense of course. The bamboo does the same dance in summer…

By K. L. Shipley

Diversity Of What

Groups selected by…

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There seems to be confusion about the meaning of the…

By K. L. Shipley

 
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Brrr . . .
Tropical Clucking
Just Kidding
The Mystery Of Amelia
Bamboo Dancing...
Diversity Of What
Game Of Mind
Gordan's Knot
An Excess Of Zeal
The Burning
Loyal 'Til The End
Who Knows Where…
The Invisible Battle
Cinema
Ramblin' Round
Magic May Be...
Do You Believe In Magic
King Of The Hill
Where's The Outrage?
ID
Afternoons At The Parma
Between The Lines
Antiques Roadshow
Manipulation
My People Perish...
Never Been Poor
Spice
Sometimes A Pinch…
Gold From The Stars
Is This Mind Octopied

Brenda Arledge

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Trust In The Power...

We often feel helpless, knowing…

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…she watches each event unfold,

knowing her hands are tied, 

feelings of despair take…

By Brenda Arledge

Recuperating

"Recuperating" is a poem…

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…down the days

waiting for a clean bill of health, 

hoping to get…

By Brenda Arledge

God's Children Weep

God's Children Weep is a…

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…fueled protests

fills the streets,

destructive violence…

By Brenda Arledge

Make The Day Bright

"Make the Day Bright" is…

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…only takes a moment 

to turn someone’s world around,

so, take the time to…

By Brenda Arledge

That's Life

"That's Life" is a short…

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…I’ve already faced 

my darkest day,

but I doubt that…

By Brenda Arledge

Wait...Don't Rush

"Wait...

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…rose 

delicate and beautiful,

a softness like it might…

By Brenda Arledge

 
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Trust In The Power...
Recuperating
God's Children Weep
Make The Day Bright
That's Life
Wait...Don't Rush
Stay At Home...
Life Has A Purpose
Trusting Google Maps
Just Another Ordinary Day
Love Isn't Always Easy
God's Promise
Self-made Therapyď
"Playing With Fire"
God's Got This!
Teardrops Are Not Enough
Real Love Flows Naturally
Feelings Of You
Misery With Company
Taking Stock Of Life
Their Last Rainbow
Facing Nightmares
He'll Bring You…
Weathering The Storm
When Tragedy Strikes
New Beginnings Haunt...
Each Day Is A New...
Bumpy Road
The Last Dance
Tide of Life

Anita G. Gorman

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The Plagiarism Club

The narrator confesses…

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…was about to start. Everyone had either piles of paper neatly assembled on the table or a laptop that was on and chugging away. I was a new member of the group. I had nothing with me except what was stored in my head. The leader of the group cleared…

By Anita G. Gorman

Joy at the Funeral

…liked her name. She didn't feel particularly joyful most of the time. On the other hand, for part of the time on most days she felt pretty good. She had two small children, a husband with a decent job, and she herself worked part-time in retail. She was thirty years…

By Anita G. Gorman

Apology

Carlina apologizes for…

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…was always apologizing. In the grocery store, when she was staring at cans of soups and another customer joined her, she would say, "Sorry," and move away to another aisle. The cans of soups would…

By Anita G. Gorman

The Clown

She enters an antiques store and wants to buy a painting of a clown. The old proprietor reveals why she can't buy it.

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…started looking at the walls. She had enough furniture, but she needed something on the walls of her apartment in downtown Ashleyville, Ohio. She walked to the rear of the small, crowded store and…

By Anita G. Gorman

Magdalena Raises Her Hand

Magdalena has always been ignored…

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…was not sure when she realized that no one paid much attention to her. Was it in elementary school, when she would raise her hand constantly to answer the teacher's questions? Her arm would ache from shaking it, but Mrs. Alexander, her third grade teacher, would rarely call…

By Anita G. Gorman

A Command from the Dying

Irene's mother issues a…

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…Irene's mother was dying, she established some rules. "Irene, when I die, you will of course bury me in the Ashleyville Cemetery. You will visit every day. I know you will. You're a good daughter, though I can't say you always have been very good. Why you married that guy, I have no idea. At least the two of you produced a cute…

By Anita G. Gorman

 
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The Plagiarism Club
Joy at the Funeral
Apology
The Clown
Magdalena Raises Her Hand
A Command from the Dying
The One-Dollar Lottery Ticket
Malcolm's Murder Plot
Maxwell's Job
Always Bennie
1945
Elspeth Crusoe
Uncle Anton
A Call From Anonymous
For a Reason
Jonathan's Leg
Lost Lunches
Cincinnatus
Eliza's Mother
Courageous Women
The Mysterious Limousine
Heidi and Happiness
Renewing a Writer's License
Grandma and the Threesome
The Cane Caper
Scott Free
Ingrid Alone
Muriel Calls the Neighbor
Hector and the Tibetan Coins
The Mausoleum

Ken Gosse

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Hounded

A hound-raising tale…

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…up from the ground was a hound he had buried;

a dog in dense fog who’d been long cemeteried.

His wife’s pup, gone rabid, was shot and then…


By Ken Gosse

Scrib-Scrabblin’ Away

Borrowed stuff. A character…

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… the Scribbler, he

embraced his poet wannabe

whose rhymes were rough…

By: Ken Gosse

Stir Frying

This poem borrows it's…

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… no use for lawyers

lest they’re fighting on my side

and win my case but …

By Ken Gosse

On the Road Again...

This poem was inspired…

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…promised relief dead ahead.

Finally, stopping for bread!

We’ll spend lots of…

By Ken Gosse

Merlin’s Wisdom

The Magic of Infatuation...

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...loved him then, when still a lad

and she a lass, but Galahad

ne’er seemed to notice her bright...

By Ken Gosse

The Deadly S Curve

...they don’t even rhyme;

the latter shakes rafters, the first is a crime.

By adding one letter, in essence, the “s”

changes joy, fun, and frolic...

By Ken Gosse

 
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Hounded
Scrib-Scrabblin’ Away
Stir Frying
On the Road Again...
Merlin’s Wisdom
The Deadly S Curve
So Texted Zachary...
Socialite Vs. Socialdark...
Incelibate Separation...
The Art Of Persuasion…
A Darkness In August…
Playing With Fire
Margarita
Burnt Oftenings
Playing The Pyramid…
Someone There Is That...
Not Enough Hair...
The Lost and Found...
The Sun Often…
A Secret Love
When The Landlord…
The Treasure...
Yes, Virginia, There...
Beautiful Dreamers
A Real Boy, But Still...
Sunshine In Black And White
A Prisoner’s Dilemma
Memories Of A Mockingbird
The Day After The Clocks...
Annuity Of A...

Monalisa Parida

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Caress of Soul!

…window shut her eyes,

The night elongates its time forcing the Sun to skive off,

The stars does not vanish from the bosom of the sky,

The wall clock doesn't…

By Monalisa Parida

Stream of Love

…Spring of eternal love,

Sparrow, pigeons on her eave.

A booming tone, a boisterous laugh,

Embrace the light with the…

By Monalisa Parida

Oblivion of Love

…is raining day and night,

Your name is written in raindrops,

On a moonlit window,

Longing eats me…

By Monalisa Parida

Sands of Time

…the sands of time,

Many things have left

So much has lost

A lot of hope to be…

By Monalisa Parida

My Solitary Nostalgia

…am drawing your picture,

With mixed colour of…

By Monalisa Parida

Endless Stellar

…stagnant welkin

Of celestial blue

A vanilla sun

As soft as a…

By Monalisa Parida

 
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Caress of Soul!
Stream of Love
Oblivion of Love
Sands of Time
My Solitary Nostalgia
Endless Stellar
Human Conundrum
Smiles of Valentine
Hidden Inflammation
Rebirth
Tremor Of Street
Take A New Avatar
My Village
Bathe of Dusk
In Your Love
Saintly Intervention
My Incredible India
Twenty Years Later
Time and Man
Last Dream of Night
Solitary Thinker
I Love My Odisha
Mystery of Life
Pleasure and Pain
Cupid
Pure Affection
Unclassified Past
Unspoken Words
Made For Each Other
A Letter To Paradise

Nancy Lou Henderson

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Soft Whispers

…alarm began to play softly, Jill reached for her cell phone.  While turning the alarm off, she sat up in the bed wishing she could finish her dream, but knowing it would repeat. For some reason the…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Southern Sweet Mint Tea

Sometimes we associate different kinds of things with love.

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…Elsa filled the small pan with water at the sink, she looked out the kitchen window, and her mind wandered back to her childhood. (How many times had she done this same routine early in the morning of a hot summer day?) When she had filled the pan with just the right amount of…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Mirror of Conflict

A mirror can reflect the beginning and ending

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…the courthouse, Dale walked down the steps behind Sue. He wanted to say something to her, but he knew Sue did not want to talk to him, plus she was on the arm of another man. Once Dale got into his vehicle and started driving down the road, he felt lost in his hurt, anger, and…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Visions for the Mind

Words put together that give the mind a picture.

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…fluffy clouds, blue skies

Night, full moon, bright stars

Tree, brown branches, green…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Full Circle

…walked into her bedroom, then sat down on the stool in front of her antique dressing table. She loved the dressing table with an attached mirror which had been her Grandma’s. It was her favorite place to brush her hair. As Grace looked at her image in the mirror, she remembered her Grandmother’s reflection in that same mirror. She had often sat in her Grandmother’s lap while her Grandma had…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Waiting in Line

Waiting in line can be soul searching

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…line of people stretched ahead of Jess. The people in front of her seemed not to be moving, but she did not care because her mind was busy remembering her journey to get here. Had she done enough, and was she ready? Should she get out of the line and go…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

 
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Soft Whispers
Southern Sweet Mint Tea
Mirror of Conflict
Visions for the Mind
Full Circle
Waiting in Line
Daddy's Potato Soup
Waking You Up
When He Visits
You Are Special
I Lost Me
Those Big Eyes
Bouncing Golden Curls
The Cedar Chest

Shih-Fang Wang

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Self-Exploration

…choose sumptuous words

And whimsical ideas

Along with inspiration

To explore reality…

By Shih-Fang Wang

Last Humor

… had a good sense of humor, 

He always came up with jokes

When we were in an embarrassing situation

His wit frequently saved…

By Shih-Fang Wang

Solution

… to clean up clutter in my abode   

Was like trying clean the Augean stables

But unlike Hercules I do not have a river

To run through my…

By Shih-Fang Wang

Greatest Mystery

…Universe

The greatest mystery of all

Its vastness incomprehensible

Its creation …

By Shih-Fang Wang

Love

…look alone

I fell in love with you

It took me by surprise…

By Shih-Fang Wang

Diversity Of Art

…artist has a unique way

To express their emotions

Every art has its own value

Diversity is the essence of…

By Shih-Fang Wang

 
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Self-Exploration
Last Humor
Solution
Greatest Mystery
Love
Diversity Of Art
Human vs. Destiny
My Retreat
Nonstop
Overburdened
A Trap
The Presence
My Quest
The Grip
What Happened To The River
The Process
Poetic Cultivation
Be Brave
Consequence
The Wind's Journey
Rainy Day
Dear Cousin
A Cosmic Dream
Future Fear
The Shaman
A Missing Link
The Final Departure
Inevitability
Unknown Future
Trapped

Tracey Ross

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Hyena's Laugh

Have you researched…

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…to our realm of “Predator’s vs Prey,” where the hyena’s laugh, dragging our cubs away, cunningly tricking the most diligent family protectors into sacrificing the weak, in a “Free Will” display, by not…

By Tracey Ross

Deflecting Truth

…currently has paid advertisement programming advice echoing out through the elderly and teens, warning that low sodium and non-processed food cooked from home and exercising through their lifetime…

By Tracey Ross

Complicit

It ends when WE end...

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…I know and do not say, than I am complicit in the sway added to the play, that manipulates the trajectory…

By Tracey Ross

Worldwide Plunge

If we open our eyes…

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…know that we are the enemy in a covert war game, dressed up as a theatrical puppet show, deflecting attention with the spew of a medical array, to disguise the intention of the worldwide…

By Tracey Ross

COD

Begin before the end...

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…are beings of limitless potential, experiencing a blending of emotions together, choosing the weight of rock or feather, to add to the records of history...

By Tracey Ross

Push Comes To Shove

Positive Intention Intervention

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…push comes to shove, I find it is best to step to the side and let the “Wolf” hit the brick wall...

If you shove back, it creates resistance, that may dam up life’s flow, stagnating and extending a stall...

Removing the urge to patch up…

By Tracey Ross

 
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Hyena's Laugh
Deflecting Truth
Complicit
Worldwide Plunge
COD
Push Comes To Shove
Waste-Full
A Glimpse
Dirty Socks
In A Flash
Healing Journey
Forced Truth
Soylent Green
Creator's Glory
Disposition
Refocused
Quarry
Bad Taste
Indian Act
Sequestered
Common Sense
Our Way Is PMA
Disability Retreat
Stronghold
Halloween
Poetry In Motion
Connect The Dots
Throws of War
Deep Breaths
You're Fired

Clinton Siegle

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Society

…issues seem to change per day.

Open your eyes - Plague, War, to be Famine, not today.

Climate change is seasons or the galactic cycle in days.

In one ear out the other every…

By Clinton Siegle

To Realize We Live In The Past

Latest speed of Earth

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…years into a pass change to Cylons.

Eternity is watching me.

Silence, silently I watch and wonder in awe…

By Clinton Siegle

Equality

…would mean justice

Quality of justice

Until justice is real equality is a term thrown out to pacify.

All equality represents is…

By Clinton Siegle

Beauty Is Beauty

…my eyes to the beauty.

Dreams of God are beautiful too.

I realize an attribute of God is beauty.

Seriously, to dream of beauty of…

By Clinton Siegle

Compassion

…my current state of affairs, I wonder about compassion. I lost my sight, regained it. Lost in one eye regains partial in another. I wonder if I am compassionate to those with fewer opportunities in my time of…

By Clinton Siegle

Identity: Who Am I Really?

…am no longer sure who I am anymore. I knew I was. I was a hard worker. I did things that other people dream about doing in my reality. People laugh and say like what? The secrets I carried once upon a time did things that only a few will ever…

By Clinton Siegle

 
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Society
To Realize We Live In The Past
Equality
Beauty Is Beauty
Compassion
Identity: Who Am I Really?
Alone? Sure I Live Alone
Assistance
Family
Dark Thoughts
Embracing Isolation Diary Entry
Distance Distance Acrostic
Togetherness acrostic
Sudden Change Acrostic
Symbolism Acrostic
Uprising Upraise Think Acrostic
Uprising Verses Speculation The Last of Humanity
Awkward Awkward Uprising
Spirituality Acrostic

Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

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I Swear I Will...

…wonderful it would be

If only I narrated ‒

The fragrance of cloying jasmine,

Hanging in…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

Untimely Demise

Dedicated to all who lost…

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…vessels of joy, the euphoria

Boarded in the ship of his dome

Have sunk into the…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

Alone

…and alone,

he is free to go to school,

free to work,

free to roam around…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

Determination

…holding its root,

Incites you to ink your emotions with blood

Like a woodpecker pecking the wood ignoring its woes

Until the mission is…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

Contrast

…men are paying for

nightly trip with nude maidens,

slaves at the hotel and lodge

wonder what sunrays look…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

The World Around

…savage world, save me, is celebrating.

The gorgeous hills at their lush vegetation,

The graceful rhododendrons at their crimson attire,

The valiant lion at its power to…

By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

 
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I Swear I Will...
Untimely Demise
Alone
Determination
Contrast
The World Around
My Image, My Surrounding
What Do You Worship?
Bounded or Not?
How Dare You?
Why Hindrance in Love?
Mark a Man!
Sunset
Distortion of Concentration
Love, Hatred and Politics
What I Did At The Temple
Sleepless Nights
The Latecomer
An Aged Mother’s Reflection
Inference
The Cell Phones Amid
Bye Momma
Silence
Paradox
Revolution
Inner Storm
Beauty Props
Dog and Depression
Fake and True Leader
Set-up Uniforms

Ngoc Nguyen

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True Beauty, Indeed…

…beauty, indeed (to the number-theorists),

     reveals the distribution of the primes.

Beauty, too, is courage, the defiant fists

     of a defender whom we praise in …

By Ngoc Nguyen

A Poet's Testament...

… when life's journey ends, I'll at last die;

     and won't be sad (for I'll be old and glad)

because I gave my very best reply

     to God by praising him though I…

By Ngoc Nguyen

A Love So Hot...

… hot and tempting as rising dough,

     like fruit, oft' ripens during spring's brief life.

So feed the hunger! Bite the apple. Though

     some will judge you, let it not …

By Ngoc Nguyen

Immortal Lines By...

…could come from a joyless life
of a hundred years where love's never found
but hatred comes at the point of a knife,
then these lines offer hope with this…

By Ngoc Nguyen

United Destinies

…. hand unites us? Rare Chance knows!

     Though like spring you are young, we have this time:

     in fellowship, we commune in your prime.

Before long, all your hardships…

By Ngoc Nguyen

If I Have Squandered...

…I have squandered your gifts, O Dear Lord,

     and glorified myself with hoarded wealth;

if I have crucified the Lamb and Word, 

     and planned against my righteous…

By Ngoc Nguyen

 
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True Beauty, Indeed…
A Poet's Testament...
A Love So Hot...
Immortal Lines By...
United Destinies
If I Have Squandered...
A Starry Night
Spiritual Warfare
The Love Of Rose
What You Are To Me
A.M. Verses On A...
What Beauty Is…
The Insignificance Of...
A Paradox of Time
For Manic, Listless...
O Bipolar, Harass...
Altar Of Love
When I Pen Lines…
When Solitude Is All...
When Songs Of…
Displays Of Might
Pi, Euler's Number…
The Deeds That…
Platonic, Bipolar Friends...
All-Or-Nothing Thinking
Lines Composed…
In Reply To Hamlet's...
O, Meal Worm!
A Scorned Lover's...
Evanescence

Pete Black

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The Wall

As he had done countless times…

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…back to the worst day of his life, January 21, 1970. He was 100 yards away from the ammunition truck when it blew up, killing 12 of his Army buddies. He would never forget the gruesome scene, the dismembered and burning bodies. As he had done countless times, he touched the names…

By Pete Black

Rescued from the Trash

Tabitha was emptying the wastebasket...

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…when she found Stephen’s three wadded-up typewritten pages. After knocking off the cigarette ashes and smoothing out the pages, she began to read. It was good, and she wondered how the story ended. Tabitha was keenly aware that her…

By Pete Black

Babe's Missing Bat

More than 300 people filled…

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…than 300 people filled the large auction hall at Sotheby’s Auction House. They had come for a huge sports memorabilia auction. Babe Ruth’s home run bat, which christened a brand new Yankee stadium in 1923, was the auction’s…

By Pete Black

A Lunch Date with Destiny

When Laura started across…

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“You are to pay special attention to those who by accident of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with…

By Pete Black

The Baby Who Was Traded…

When Moses Carver got word...

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…slave traders from Arkansas raided Moses Carver’s plantation at night. They burned the fields and the barn. And they kidnapped Mary, a slave who had lived and worked on the Carver farm for a decade, and her one-week-old…

By Pete Black

Miracle on the River Kwai

Scottish Commander Ernest Gordon lay dying…

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…lay dying in the infamous Japanese prison camp in a Thailand jungle on the bank of the Kwai River. He had been placed next to fellow prisoners of war on the muddy ground next to several corpses in the…

By Pete Black

 
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The Wall
Rescued from the Trash
Babe's Missing Bat
A Lunch Date with Destiny
The Baby Who Was Traded…
Miracle on the River Kwai
No. 23
Operation Cowboy
The Nun
The Legend of No. 42
Graveyard Shift at Robsham Hall
Saving the President
The Pea Island Lifesavers
The Birmingham Preacher
Stick to Driving a Truck
The Last Man in the Water
The Lady Behind the Bridge
The Breadline Champions
Man of the Millennium
Endurance
Mr. Yellow Jacket
Putting on His Pants
At Rock Bottom
Almost No Cat in the Hat
Rocket Boy
Burt's Bees
Visits to the Louvre Museum
Bitter or Better
Saving Luna
Thank You for the Fleas

Chris Platt

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Under No Obligation

…approached the couple perusing the samples in kitchen showroom. He straightened his tie, and adjusted his cuff-links, before giving them his most…

By Chris Platt

These Little Lies

…wheeled her bicycle out of the garage. Out on the street, she peddled her bike along as quickly as she could. She was running late for work. The management weren’t too strict but she didn’t want to push her luck. She had slept in…

By Chris Platt

Dreams Of Mars

…wife shook him gently by the shoulder to wake him. Ray sat up in bed. Ellen was beside him, a look of concern on her …

By Chris Platt

An Investigation

…had been going around the country investigating ghost sightings for almost two decades. He was the author of several books on the subject and hosted a weekly podcast. Today he would be investigating a haunted …

By Chris Platt

The Mystery Of Thomas Inkpen

…Paige knotted his dressing-gown around his waist, and headed downstairs. His wife Elaine was sipping a cup of tea, already dressed for work. He grinned and bid her a…

By Chris Platt

Bev and Romance

…hugged her friends good-night. She was ready for home. It had been a good night catching up over a few drinks in the city centre bars. Now with her feet hurting from her new shoes, and her ears ringing from the noise of the music and chat…

By Chris Platt

 
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Under No Obligation
These Little Lies
Dreams Of Mars
An Investigation
The Mystery Of Thomas Inkpen
Bev and Romance
The Overlook
Mark My Words
The Shock Of...
Stands A Boxer
Of Murder And Blood
Something Snapped
That's Another Story
The Christmas Eve Shift
The Plan
Love and Appiness
The Best Medicine
Different Roads
Vintage
Challenging Times
Scar Tissue
Different Circles
The Clean Slate
New Style Parenting
Last Days
Quite The Confession
The Better Man
In Sickness And In Health
A Strange Reunion
Relationship Goals