Archive for Inspirational
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LA PLUMAS #2873 • by John Brooke
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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UNDERSEA PANTOUM • by John Brooke 11 Comments
Surfing waves above roll over and over and over me Minnows mass then act as one weaving living drapes Quick silver rippling ceiling shows where air is sea Shields schools of psychedelic show stopper shapes Million minnows act fast as one weaving living drapes Above the bottom where oysters dream in their bed Fin vast [...]
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THE PACT • by by Waldy Ens 5 Comments
the street a paved avenue of daydreams past the creepy house of wrought iron nightmares lined with broad ditches and tall trees daily back and forth alone or with friend two boys thinking of now and then we stop at the tracks before the descent and make a pact “remember this” sun in a blanket [...]
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LA PAZ CARNAVAL • by By John Brooke 6 Comments
Unembarrassed affections fill curb-to-curb en La Paz del Malecón Shuffling jostling swaying hip hipping in opposite musical flows Tight bumping padres-madres-niños-gringos cheerfully dance on Many have traveled from distant arroyo mountain rocky ranchos Shuffling jostling swaying hip hipping in opposite musical flows Flotillas awash in glittering jovens moving as one sexy dancer Many have [...]
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UNEXPECTED BLISS • by ellyn zografi 6 Comments
To recognize beauty at 3 AM in those thick white porcelain mugs filled with weak coffee you drink to delay the death of another perfect night of merriment The waitress with her sarcasm strong perfume thick make-up smoke-cracked voice who makes you feel a bit superior just for a moment Then you remind yourself she [...]
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YELLOW • by B Comet 9 Comments
all quiet like yellow can be a spot of it on the deck warming brown wood a drink of it in my throat, quenching loudness a prayer of it hushing worry a promise of it that there will be new light B Comet is an artist and writer from the North Country. She is [...]
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GOD'S WORK • by Ben Langhinrichs 11 Comments
We wake before the break of dawn, Just grab some coffee; head on out And toil until the daylight’s gone. Each day we face what is foregone, Some days fight floods, and others drought We wake before the break of dawn. Though strong young men, we ache and yawn. Rough fists must rub the tired [...]
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RESOLUTION • by Robin V. Herrnfeld 27 Comments
In solitude, noise from the street outside shut out by window panes the plant in a quiet corner thrives spills from its stand a cascade of colour, spreads green over warm polished boards grateful for water I give blossoms bask in sun by day close by night to save strength enough for tomorrow’s display tell [...]
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A THOUSAND DRUMBEATS • by Terry Zimmer 5 Comments
A thousand drumbeats dance the ground To say ‘Come play’; to me invite A leave-taking that, heeded, might For time a grief or worry drown. A leaf, rain-felled, will quick a-brown Unquick’d from branch that nectar drank And will, with time, in brothers’ rank Decay to crumb, no longer found. Ah – when [...]
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