Archive for Poems
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DWELLING • by John Lander
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Raindrops splash soft the wicker bladed field, squish-smush patter pushed rhythm on stone shield: hardy gnomes huddled close sans voice or torch bide stormed ire on this lonely giant’s porch. John Lander enjoys reading and writing out of his hammock in Texas. He dislikes mosquito bites.
Humour/Satire
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LA PLUMAS #2873 • by John Brooke 17 Comments
Massive cardón cactus bearing black buzzard fruit Seven feathered frock-coated, red-faced vultures solemn judges atop colossal elephantine cactus limbs weighing today’s sunrise as their crimson verdict. Opposite side of arroyo a twisted torote tree hosts a harvest of polished carbon-caped crafty ravens, humorless lawyers cawing law stropping their bills, mooting the merits [...]
Inspirational
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WHAT ROUND THE CORNER WAITS • by Effie Collins 6 Comments
I have seen have felt this thing long before life came before hours spent sitting silent remorseful repentant what I have seen what I have heard I have had shoved in my face thrown in my life foul rancid rain from putrid clouds yesteryear’s afterbirths rotted and unforgiving what passes for life such a thin [...]
Other
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MAKING PARTS • by Kip 5 Comments
Tomorrow will be my anniversary; the little black x on the calendar above my toolbox tells me so. Thirty-three years I’ve worked here. A lifetime, making small metal parts for airplanes, bombs, medical devices. I can make anything. I could have been an engineer, architect, a teacher or doctor, but the girl got pregnant and [...]
Literary
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THE MASOCHIST • by Sara Bickley No Comments
She’ll neither select me nor outright reject me. The summit seems scarce worth the climb. And yet it’s no wonder that my heart grows fonder: She’s absent so much of the time. If she wants to postpone, let her do it alone; I will wait, though forever she tarry. I am happy withal, for [...]
Humour/Satire
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THE SURPRISE GLACIER • by Ahan 8 Comments
A chipper, springer, then a trickle Ice cracks free of the Glacier Wall that calves, throws the block out, down, into the sea The splash explodes, rocks growlers frightens the seal that dives under the floater A look, a tone, a sudden flurry of words Suddenly she says what is really on her mind She [...]
Inspirational
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BIRTH DAY • by Lia Molly Deromedi 8 Comments
I was born on the 10th day in the month of Tishrei I did not come easy I did not come breathing one small collarbone broken and the cord moved just so the room was still and silent and waiting I screamed the room exhaled the morning was white and hot already in its [...]
Other
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NEVERMORE • by Gavin Broom 13 Comments
Once upon a fearful Sunday, as I postponed thoughts of Monday, a notion of a poem came a-knocking at my door. While I summoned inspiration for this tentative creation, I resisted the temptation of a structure like before; For sestina, sonnet, haiku; they’d all been done before. Epic, verse, and plenty more. With fresh [...]
Humour/Satire
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WIDE OPEN • by Douglas Pugh 5 Comments
In the desert twisted in shimmers and the scratch of hoarse throated denial you expected to find peace and solitude crammed in the awkward grasp of a tired yucca but there was no burning bush of beauty stripped down raw to the basic simplicities of life there was no manna cushioning the soft footfall of [...]
Horror
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ITINERANT VENDOR • by Fehmida Zakeer 8 Comments
a singsong litany announces the nomadic seller as he hawks his wares cart piled high random heaps of pots, pans, plastic baubles in rainbow colours, kitchen accessories, shiny steel utensils, sit cheek by jowl, through roads hardened black or streaked moist brown pockmarked with puddles, he brings slices from city markets to far flung [...]
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