I Don’t Like To...
/Let the past stay in the…
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…don’t like to be stacked
Like a pig in the mud
Of an old broken…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
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Facing Nightmares
/"Facing Nightmares" is a poem…
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…strange
how unexpected nightmares
change our…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreWeathering The Storm
/"Weathering The Storm"…
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…silently down her cheek
as her voice cries in unspoken words
pleading with heaven…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreThe Nun
/After years of looking over the convent…
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…years of looking over the wall at the filth and poverty in the streets beyond, she could no longer ignore what she saw. She resigned as principal of St. Mary’s High School for girls to work with the poor. She knew it wouldn’t be easy, but she had no idea just how difficult and discouraging the work would…
By Pete Black
Read MoreThe Drawn Hands of Hope
/…took a building tour the other day
There were colonial rooms and long hallways
Drawn pictures of hands covered the wall
Inspirational messages in them…
By Andrew Scott
Read MoreThe History of Hope
/…of the world’s population
died in the Great Famine (1315-17).
The Black Plague took a third of
Europe and a million Irish…
By Lorraine Jeffery
Read MoreHold Onto Hope
/This poem reminds us that when rainy days…
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…sprouts emerging from the ground
become a beautiful bouquet of flowers
taking us on a…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreHopelessly Optimistic
/…did this hope come from?
Is there something wrong with me?
Have I read too many delusional fairy tales?
Am I truly insane and stupid to deny…
By Dana Trick
Read MoreThe Gargoyle Yawns
/The search for an honest man
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…searches for clues in the moist darkness of early morning, the mist feels its way through empty alleys and vacant lots, cautious footsteps crackle from the gravel pathway lined with broken glass and dry leaves, evidence the Autumn Equinox has smothered the last breath of…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
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