Cooking
/…was limited to making hot air popcorn with my college roommate. Kernels embedded in the living room carpet. Our other roommate once took out the vacuum cleaner and…
By Karol Nielsen
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Inside My Skin
/…lives inside my skin.
I don’t know her, but she knows everything.
She urgently insists that I will never be enough,
while she stares at shadows that…
By Melissa Lemay
Read MoreWhen I Pen Lines…
/…fresh thoughts of Vincent van Gogh
strike me! How, with palette and brushes, he breathed
life's scenes onto blank canvases long ago:
coasts, countrysides, sunflowers…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreOur Path To Salvation
/There is a difference…
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…morning breeze has secrets to tell you.
Do not go back to sleep.
Listen to the whistle of the wind…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreEscaping Alcohol
/…mood darkened as the moon
stretched full, and the stars
applauded misery.
I despised dive bars so…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreI'm A Book...
/…with torn bumpy pages
With a little bit faded script
From the time I was created
(Maybe from ages), but…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreIn Olden Days
/…because an unborn
Had double X chromosomes
She might not have the chance
To survive in this eastern…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreDouble Standards
/…I'm judged so differently than you?
I do the things daily that you get praised to do.
I clean, pick up the kids clothes and no one says a word.
And yet, when you do it, it's to a…
By Jonna Kihlman
Read MoreLasting Love
/I've written poems for my…
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…the spring of '89, our love did ignite,
Two souls entwined, in each other's sight.
Jeff, my high school sweetheart…
By E. B. Hall
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