The blanket of
A winter’s first snow-
The forsythias wept
At the weight above them.
Frost mustered itself into
Fierce winds,
Frigid thoughts,
Famished feelings.
Flowers, dried, browned...
#Poetry by Julia Murray
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If I were hope
You would be my millstone
Drowning me in fear.
If I were kind
You’d gouge out my eyes
To change my mind.
And if I were blind
You would not mind.
So I love you
Like a...
#Poetry by Amrita Valan
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Prickly rains drench Mother Courage as she pulls her wagon in Central Park.
First Eilif, then Swiss Cheese and Kattrin rushed into a red river that still gushes.
But I survived and came...
#Poetry by Mary Mills
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every turn
reveals a view obscured
a lost way
gone on ahead
to signal the change
a shadow cast
from a long-forgotten self
one more thing to matter a bit less
one more thing to...
#Poetry by Edward L. Canavan
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The day dissolves in my mouth like cotton candy finding it’s peaceful end
Hesitant to believe that this never ending day would actually conclude
Trapped in a permanent wet tongue
Down...
#Poetry by Janelle Finamore
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Most poems are pounded out
in emotional flesh, sometimes
physical skin scalped feelings.
It’s a Jesus hanging on a cross
a Mary kneeling at the bottom
not knotted in love but roped...
#Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson
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We hear cries of children
Yet to be born
Descendants of our families
Calling out against global warming
Out of control and still rising.
Demanding why we failed them
Did not elect...
#Poetry by Colin Ian Jeffery
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My father brings me seeds he ordered from a catalog,
says, Here’s those heirloom tomatoes
you like so much. But I know he wouldn’t buy them
unless he wanted them. I think
he’s...
#Poetry by David B. Prather
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As I trudge through swamp,
I seem to be the largest,
most fearsome, dangerous,
creature here.
The trees are stunted.
Tiny frogs croak.
Crickets crackle.
Heron wings flap
and deer hurry off...
#Poetry by John Grey
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Much will be forgiven those
on whom not much has dawned.
But let me ask: How could you not see the signs?
What with the oceans rising, icecaps melting,
the evidence is in. I too...
#Poetry by Dale Cottingham
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having been
found by perfection,
i am a
prisoner,
just as is that perfection,
both of us framed in
separate
boxes of wanting,
knowing there’s
no walking
away – no substitute for
the...
#Poetry by RC deWinter
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Maybe if they knew of my hardships
They would go easier on me
Instead of making up rumours through gossip
I know this avant-garde way of life
As a so-called writer and artist...
#Poetry by Paul Butterfield Jnr
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A promise that he would stay
A promise to never leave her side
A promise she knew he couldn’t keep
A promise she wanted to believe
A promise she made to him
A promise he knew she could...
#Poetry by Charlotte Thom
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I’m not sending my sister any more poems
because I think they scare her, make her
think I’m a sorcerer or wizard/ I mean,
it’s just a bunch of letters strung together
to make words/ That’s...
#Poetry by John Dorroh
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You don’t believe me.
Not even when I show you my bloody wound.
Or play my tune on a squeaky violin.
And when I speak the language of truth,
you hear it as some obscure lying dialect.
I swim...
#Poetry by John Grey
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I.
Lucifer.
The most beautiful fallen Angel of God
with pristine features and brown eyes, blonde hair. His beauty an obsession
of woman in sin—
Scorned by those righteous men of cloth...
#Poetry by Robin McNamara
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The world is broken children killing children.
Ageless stories written in blood.
Gun, the new god /
appeasing weapons of hate.
Time is fractured there is no tomorrow...
#Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka
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(at first)
A stain rescinds after talk
And now, a hiding
Like wanting to know, by seconds
And every morning (after) there’s a sting
A stain spreads, like saying there’s a stain
They are...
#Poetry by Laura Carter
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He wedged a poem between the brickwork and the sill,
thought it would slow down ants.
She floated a poem down a creek,
hoped some little boy, some little girl, would find it.
He...
#Poetry by Victor Kreuiter
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The auditorium was dimly lit
when the healer
transformed into Merlin
and transmuted the stale energy
into rays of light.
I felt intense heat
smooth over the divorce papers—
as I began...
#Poetry by Caroline Reddy
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People today
In the hope of security
Concentrate them into the small space,
Limit infinite chaos, wider occupancy, and horizon.
Poor creatures
Feel supreme, a balloon identity,
The...
#Poetry by Bhoj Kumar Dhamala
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Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood
Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror
Oppressing own people, greedy to increase his empire
Invaded...
#Poetry by Colin Ian Jeffery
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When the time came, I swung open my prison door.
Was it always hanging by its hinges, unlocked but closed?
I supposed the presence of jailers with brickbats, handcuffs,
Straightjackets...
#Poetry by Katherine Davis
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The chocolate fudge
Moulded in
Memories
Smashed underneath
The wrinkled, silver foil
As the days crunch
An accident only
It was
That has spread the puddle
Very dark,
Gooey;
Thick...
#Poetry by Christiana Sasa
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when i was little someone
tied a big white bag to a tree in my woods
and it scared me through the window.
now there’s a fox and my
mom told me it was just a bag
but now there’s a fox...
#Poetry by Hannah Brostrom
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My screams
Are making my
Parents bleed
Like a thousand paper cuts
On a single finger
My screams
Reverberate loudly in
The cramped quarters of the car
My dad’s eyes fixed on the road...
#Poetry by Catherine Moscatt
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Searching for the Dream Road
the one not found in the darkness
Where my soul can reload
tired from watching life corrode
there is a world of soft caress
Searching for the Dream Road...
#Poetry by Andrew Scott
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feet up on the dash
windows all the way down
words flowing
through mind
luggage roped inside broken trunk
headlight glare, with him I’m
traveling down open road
leading us to someplace...
#Poetry by Lisa Arnold
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A fragile reflection bounces off the mirror
as a soft, dulled image lulled by a slow,
backward pull away from pain.
Grendel’s death-grip has been broken.
Each person awakes, wipes sweat
from...
#Poetry by Mary Mills
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And shower water
falls like moonlight at armistice
for the elderly or youth
in the all together,
Now feeling fresh
and spiritual
in mind, the unweary
after the shower
water the enigma...
#Poetry by Francis Bede
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