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War winter

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Nathaniel Cairney 0

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

Reflection

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Craig Kirchner 0

Reflection on writing and mortality.

Diné Deliverance

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023David Cameron 0

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

Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Bunny Moon 0

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

In Solidarity With The Fall

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Kushal Poddar 0

Travel from physics to the physical reaction of our mindwork.

Battles Unseen

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Arvilla Fee 0

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…

The Necessary Angel

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Paul Butterfield Jnr 0

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

Booked to Heaven

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Duane Anderson 0

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.

Private Passageway

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

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

Bridge Of Dreams

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Lynn White 0

How peaceful dreams can also be agitating.

Drunk

September 20, 2023September 18, 2023Shri Menon 0

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.

Crypt in the Sky

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Michael Lee Johnson 0

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

Almost End of a Line

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Paul Pruitt 0

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

Love Thy Neighbor

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Ann Christine Tabaka 0

A poem about the war in the Ukraine.

The Cycle

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Arvilla Fee 0

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

A Garden Grows

June 20, 2023September 21, 2023Mary Mills 0

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

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