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War winter

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Nathaniel Cairney 0
War winter

I left America, where gun violence is endemic. Europe seemed safer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe still seems safer.

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Reflection

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Craig Kirchner 0
Reflection

Reflection on writing and mortality.

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Diné Deliverance

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023David Cameron 0
Diné Deliverance

Loren was a member of the Diné nation who came on occasion to talk. Diné is alternative nomenclature for Navajo.

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Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Bunny Moon 0
Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

Bunny Moon reflects on her life as she approaches her 100th birthday.

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In Solidarity With The Fall

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Kushal Poddar 0
In Solidarity With The Fall

Travel from physics to the physical reaction of our mindwork.

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Battles Unseen

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Arvilla Fee 0
Battles Unseen

There are so many unseen battles going on behind the eyes of people who say they are fine. Let’s all be a little kinder today…

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The Necessary Angel

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Paul Butterfield Jnr 0
The Necessary Angel

This poem is about a necessary angel telling a young man with mental health problems the truth he needed to hear.

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Booked to Heaven

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Duane Anderson 0
Booked to Heaven

I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.

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Private Passageway

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Kenneth Vincent Walker 0
Private Passageway

A poem about aging, reflection and lost opportunities. However, dreams in retrospect provide a way to rewrite history.

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Bridge Of Dreams

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Lynn White 0
Bridge Of Dreams

How peaceful dreams can also be agitating.

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Drunk

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Shri Menon 0
Drunk

Drunk is a poem that implores the idea of heartbreaks and how some deep bonds when broken can make us feel so drunk and delusional.

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Crypt in the Sky

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Michael Lee Johnson 0
Crypt in the Sky

please don’t bury me beneath
this ground, don’t let me decay

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Almost End of a Line

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Paul Pruitt 0
Almost End of a Line

This poem reflects my love of mythology, teaching and learning, and above all of the ways in which words collide.

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Love Thy Neighbor

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Ann Christine Tabaka 0
Love Thy Neighbor

A poem about the war in the Ukraine.

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The Cycle

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Arvilla Fee 0
The Cycle

Dedicated to all women who have suffered abuse at the hands of the man who was supposed to love them.

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A Garden Grows

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Mary Mills 0
A Garden Grows

Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine

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