The Derby To Destiny
/…by the poppies of pride,
Thou harbour happ an heir to honour,
Ignoring instinct with avaricious abide.
Like light lures legions of…
By Aadityaamlan Panda
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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
Read MoreAn Unhappy Medium
/…had a busy Saturday ahead of him. His first port of call would be the Trafford Centre shopping mall, to collect his suit from the dry-cleaners. After that, he was booked on the golf course for 12 noon. Following an afternoon on the golf course, he would be dining…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreWill 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 MoreGoodbye, Rosalynn...
/A memory of meeting…
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…I can smell things frying: corndogs, doughnuts, turkey wings, and any number of other members of several food groups. The first tingles of the coming winter and blowing dust…
By Russell Willis
Read MoreDeath Becomes Us All
/I live content with…
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…remarkable how reliably our standing-in-life improves upon being buried. Scoundrels become saints. Misers become prudent. Nasty characters of all sorts become decent…
By K. L. Shipley
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
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