The Lesson from a Heatwave
/When we're young, we dismiss…
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In high school, the four of us were indestructible.
We could build forts in freezing weather.
In the pouring rain, we’d fish for …
By Debby Hackbarth
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July in Phoenix...
/A heatwave? Gotta reach …
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A hundred and ten? Yeah, that’s warm,
but it’s not what we call a heat storm.
One-ten plus is called…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreThe Drums Are Awake
/“The drums are now awake
I’m forced to pause eating and listen
Inspiration has hit the rhythm
Fire will talk to our …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreDismal, New Mexico
/On a July 7th,1867, afternoon in New Mexico territory, fighting a dry sandpaper wind and with old sol blistering down hot enough to make a lizard sweat, prospector D. B. Adams wiped his furrowed forehead with a handkerchief …
By CraigE
Read MoreDreams of the Big Time
/Carl Thomas read the rejection letter from the publishers and sighed. He had been writing since his teenage years. It was the thing he was most passionate about. He lived for writing. Putting the words on the page, telling these stories…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreMiss Jean Heat
/Temperatures are rising…
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While walking home after grade promotion graduation, Paulie bumped into a young lady surveying the sidewalk servicing the…
By Marc OBrien
Read MorePoetry & Life
/I’m finding a good bit of my reflection and writing of late, dealing with “why” I’m writing poetry…
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Poetry - or any art
Is not merely an activity
Nor even a compulsion
But a way of life
An attempt to make order
Of the world around us
To find understanding
Meaning
Appreciation of beauty
Connection to the interrelated
unity of all that is
Sharing all we thus learn
With our fellows
In hopes of validating what we feel
And enabling others to feel it too
By Mike Turner
From: United States
Website: http://www.miketurnersongwriter.com
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If My Despair Can...
/If my despair can sink ships like a storm,
and my shores are consumed by tidal gloom,
like apples spoiled by a devouring worm,
where rot and mind's decay lead …
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreThe Lord of Lil’ Grover’s...
/Lester Greenwald had an electric train set at 5; then again at 55—he had to find a hobby or be slowly driven mad by boredom and a nagging housewife when business was slow. Because he worked from home there was no …
By CraigE
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