Markers
/I ask neither cross nor headstone
Nor burial grave
When I leave this mortal world
Passing from this physical …
By Mike Turner
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Found in the Wreckage
/One ticket, last red-eye.
“I'll take what she's drinking,”
I say of the redhead ahead.
Glass in hand…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreNever a Blank Slate
/Children are created with…
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Children are not blank slates.
Their chromosomes are half from each mate.
When they form in their mothers…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreSacrifice
/Christianity is fair game for criticism…
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Many of us feel overwhelmed when we consider how to follow Christ. We're all in for His love and grace; it's the self-denial none of us likes. But there is purpose in the denial of self, it isn't just hardship without cause. For every time we deny…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreThe Invisible Thread
/Are we born with a blank slate
or shaped by genetics
perhaps both braided together
make us who we…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreMy Cherished Child
/As a parent, there are moments…
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Today, as I watched your rite of passage,
amidst the pomp, tradition, and pride,
I was seized by the hand of …
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreFrom a Clean Slate...
/Life gives you surprises…
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He wasn’t a playmate.
He wasn’t a classmate.
He wasn’t my prom date…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreBeyond the Apology
/After all these years
you return
to extend an olive branch
believing a sincere …
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreFilling In the Blank
/I searched all my poems for “tabula rasa”
but found a blank slate—not a horse at the gate.
In this large, empty casa, I shouted “Qué pasa?”
There wasn’t an answer. I chose not …
By Ken Gosse
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