Archive for Inspirational
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SIGNER AND THE SONG • by Jim Hatfield
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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
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LAND OF MY FATHERS • by Jennifer Walmsley 15 Comments
His chair creaked with the memory of those years where he’d sat hunched in a coat that seeped aromas of whey and manure. Cracked hands once gripped it’s embattled arms which curved down to buffed legs that gave support to a wide girth. Hard muscle. Salted bacon, fat white, hung from cruel hooks that [...]
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CICADA GHOST • by John Impey 9 Comments
a brown husk clings to rough bark, found by children who wonder how spiders become spoke-wheel ghosts cascading in webs. Emerging from the earth the same place each year, defiant of each small death, to climb like Sisyphus toward the echo of eternal return. Children listen in the arms of Mother Night, their shrill lament [...]
Inspirational
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BREAKING THE STILLNESS • by Tyrean Martinson 6 Comments
silver blurring edges of poplar trees reaching in muted light, brisk cold on my face, foggy breath of my dogs and me, muffled train lowing, skimming car driving through slush: all these break the stillness of a wet, winter morning. sun rises, burning through white clouds softening the horizon, blue sky cold freezes dampness into [...]
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KITE STRING • by Jon M. Forceton 7 Comments
Outer channel, open sea crimson morning sky Infernal black combustion throbbing … gladly cut, eternal windswept gas fumes pale, breeze force fills the sail. Troubles and the tethered life, obscured on shrinking shore. Fluid rocking firm acceleration, fluent thought, revisit fresh exhilaration. Refined reflections ebb and flow above the restive depths. All is wind blown, [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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REEF KNOTS • by John D. Brooke 4 Comments
It’s another day in Paradise at dawn yawn she said let’s swim with reef fish Wish into reality we soon were splashing dashing through silver clouds we flew Pas de deux as a million minnows part dart en masse to let us glide through View shapely red snapper and manta ray play as we pass [...]
Inspirational, Poems
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AUTUMN • by Patrick D. Hume 7 Comments
I have no idea what time it is, or how another year had passed away into the chilly red horizon of the pumpkin-flavored season. The store-bought apples, candy coated tree bark, and the dew of fallen leaves onto the trunk of my blue Nissan . . . All remind me of the [...]
Inspirational
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THE PAPER CRANE • by Crystalee Calderwood 5 Comments
I found her folded up on the steps, knees pulled to chest, head pointed down, a wilted paper crane I had not the skills to fix. Tears ran down her painted cheeks, streaked, stained the delicate paper. I touched it, rubbed downwards, murmured He did this . . . this . . . this [...]
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