Archive for Inspirational
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FLAT FOOTING • by Louise Michelle
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In the rolling hills of Tennessee during the Great Depression when folks had broken spirits I would dance the old flat foot to the beat of Grandpa’s banjo This dance was given to me by my dear ma who got it from Granny and all the way from the auld country where life was even [...]
Inspirational, Other, Poems
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UNTITLED • by Jennifer Stakes 11 Comments
tiny, seventeen syllables – nurtured, he’ll bloom into an epic Jennifer Stakes is British but now lives in Washington DC where she writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. She has managed to find some decent tea but misses Jaffa Cakes.
Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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CARLINGFORD LOUGH • by Marion Clarke 11 Comments
This morning, as I walk along the winter shore, a weak sun dribbles kisses onto the tips of newborn waves. A dullard hulk of freight carrier slices the sea with unexpected grace. Its slate reflection sulks past the stubborn mass of Gannaway Rock, powers up, heads down the lough, stretching towards the first blush [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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SAIHO-JI TEMPLE • Alysha Scott 5 Comments
The Sun in his icy grave bears the golden-yellow negligeé sifting from rigid shoulders, these are the delusions of the young. He knew me like a child and saw a woman cloaked in Autumn leaves, you did not know me. These are the memories of past-selves imploding and slipping from the backbone as if we [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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UP! • by Dominic Hamer 6 Comments
chipper! feeling you and leave the page up go should poems I think Sometimes Dominic Hamer is a London-based writer who occasionally bumps into poetry.
Concrete, Inspirational, Poems
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HAIKU NEST • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 39 Comments
cutting rhubarb cupped in the stems a blackbird’s nest Maire Morrissey-Cummins is new to writing and enjoys poetry. She has lived in Holland for many years and now lives between her home in Wicklow, Ireland and Trier, Germany. She is married with two adult children. She was born in Tramore, Co. [...]
Inspirational, Japanese Short Forms, Poems
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ATOMIC SUNSET, 1992 • by John Impey 6 Comments
It was supposed to be the last atomic test, and our last protest, withering in the Nevada heat, breathing in the old sins of the Father. We merged easily from lurid neons, Las Vegas, bright enough to be seen from the moon to listening to young coyotes howling, from our tents staked in radioactive dust. [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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SIGNER AND THE SONG • by Jim Hatfield 5 Comments
Hoards arrive and depart jostle, apologise and inwardly curse as they negotiate the station concourse. The usual Friday afternoon throng atypically stilled by a singer and her song. Hallelujah bestows upon the busy market place a momentary sense of wonderment and grace, intensified as the alchemist, positioned alongside, transmutes sound into resplendent vision. Jim Hatfield [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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THE POET’S CONCEIT • by Kaolin Imago Fire 3 Comments
Is that his words can adequately (or greater still) express/convey/impress/display that perfect/imperfect moment (of existence)– against all evidence contrariwise. Is that her words are better than that moment (if another had chanced upon it)– that everything is brighter/darker/deeper/taller (but in no way caricature, excepting when truth demands it). For poetry, she says, is a demanding [...]
Inspirational
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WHAT THE COYOTE LEARNED • by John Impey 8 Comments
the wind rose, the wind fell, the dust settled coyote and moon looked down upon the hogan. “when we are born, “ the Dine’ elder told us, “they bury the cord to our mother in the sheepfold, when we die they bury us in the same place. that is what the land means to us.” [...]
Inspirational, Poems
