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This Dog's Life
/…eleven years old when all this started. Before the incident he was an average kid, into films and TV, and playing out with my friends. One afternoon in May, it was half-term and he was…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreBackground Music
/…summer morning
A monotonous buzzing began
In my left ear
Like a tune from a…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreIt Is Magic After All
/Listening to Bella Voce…
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…is magic after all
Noise no longer noise
Sound unrendered by…
By Russell Willis
Read MoreI Sing Every Verse…
/…song with words gathered
from the whispering evening breeze.
The rhythm I got from the ocean’s weaves,
something calm, sometimes…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreAn Antsy Message
/…not as smart as I think, but on a starry night when I looked up at the sky from this tiny rock in this desolate universe, the only two questions that hit me and my species were…
By Ranjit Kulkarni
Read MorePlaying The Pyramid…
/D’oh-Raymese was a great…
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…life would not resume
but music helped consume
the darkness of this…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreWhat You Are To Me
/A poem of tribute, love, and appreciation for Rose…
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…let me say, and say it well.
In the past, you once wore a mask,
a face of what I could not…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreDwindling Fire
/…by the dwindling fire
Reliving my memories of old
Sure bets and gambles
Losses and…
By Mike Turner
Read MorePrayers In The Streetlight
/…stood on the crammed deck of the ship with the other Italian immigrants as New York came in to view. He leaned on the railing, the wind tugging at his hair. At twenty years old, he had taken the brave decision to leave his native Napoli, to start a new life in America. All around him people huddled…
By Chris Platt
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