Thankful Smiles
/…at a kitchen table
in a rented cabin.
I took a sip of gin on the rocks.
The burn in my…
By Andy Cooper
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Will Hatred End
/...lasts forever
This is nature’s way
To recycle materials
To bring in new…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreInheritance
/…settles
Damp mists rise
Separate tendrils join together
into a deep fog that shrouds…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreJack The Ripper
/…misfortune strikes
And people are in angst,
Their leaders perplexed,
The economy in…
By Blue Musings
Read MoreJust A Thought
/…cyst until it is a mass
A mass is just a mass until it is cancer
Cancer is just cancer.
Come with…
By Fran Pearce
Read MoreO, Meal Worm!
/…eats me like a gourd of flesh,
this slimy beast I dread; two weeks or more
until my heart's (that once was young and fresh)
a hole that brims with the plaque…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreRIP My Past
/We all have moments…
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…my past. I buried you
under a deep layer of dust.
I’m not lighting a…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreOlder Adults
/…faces wear the past
Experience in each fold, wrinkle
Minds a treasure trove of knowledge
Irreverent eyes never fail…
By Margaret Karim
Read MoreSelective Outrage
/…for Gaza, but Sudan thirsts
in a famine.
The bloodshed in Yemen
cries to the heavens…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreA Scorned Lover's...
/—a poem written…
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…when love outlasts the grave;
I will mourn you, when tears drown all I have;
I will curse you, now that…
By Ngoc Nguyen
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