From the Very Last Seat
/…that wind or machine?
Or brain making sense of the
Incessant roar with
Its background thrum…
By Russell Willis
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The Valentine Moon
/…a cold winter’s night all day long and a song
gently wafted o’er snow so white
and at noon the full moon didn’t shine quite as bright
as it did in the mid of…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreGrinding 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
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
Read MoreThe Lichen is a Shelf
/…the ten-tall waves round Big Jim's corner do we
know we should run. The girl storm swings sharks like ribbons,
busts balloons on flattened boats, sand-pierced graves.
It wobbled, you know. I should have…
By Marjorie Gowdy
Read MoreHope for a Better New Year
/…spark in the dark sky
Emitting momentary splendor
Glasses raised to the New Year
Tethered to the elapsed-gloomy…
By Shih-Fang Wang
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