Archive for Inspirational
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THE GHOSTS OF GUITARS • by Barry Napier
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Despite your best efforts, it will all seem warmly familiar— the creak of the front porch steps before you ascend them; the song of crickets and tree frogs before their night choir sheds its shadows; the worn and warped feel of the handle of the screen door as your fingers graze the handle. Haunted [...]
Inspirational
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SATURN ON MY SOLE • by Richard M. O’Donnell 7 Comments
I wake to see Saturn on my sole a child’s glow-in-the-dark sticker stuck to the bottom of my shoe radiating from the bedroom floor like the moon to the earth reminding me of the infinity of space. I close my eyes. Outside a billion constellations swirl in an emptiness beyond my comprehension but I’m grounded [...]
Inspirational, Relationships
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WAILING • by CD Goble 15 Comments
A solitary trumpet wails from across the alley. I join in, slapping my knee with a lively rhythm. The window ledge becomes my ride cymbal. The floor is my bass drum and the wall my crash. We make great music. He is Dizzy Gillespie and I am Gene Krupa. The alley is our [...]
Inspirational, Other
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THE WEDDING-GUEST’S THOUGHTS • by Paula Berman 9 Comments
Their temerity is brazen, and glorious: two puny humans, entitled to nothing but death dare to promise forever. Paula Berman is an American currently living as an expat in Taipei, Taiwan. Occasionaly she writes poems as a break from engineering. http://paxber.us/avontuur
Inspirational
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TALES WE LEFT BEHIND • by Raymundo Gallegos 4 Comments
Weary hearts, heavy tears have creased our shells. Our callused hands portray the timeless tales we left behind. But don’t be sad for the timeless tales we left behind will dry heavy tears, crease a smile on weary hearts. Raymundo Gallegos was born in Texas, which means that there is no need [...]
Inspirational
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BLIND MAN’S ORCHID • by Amy Corbin 13 Comments
White as silence in the middle of night near the heart is a fire of fuchsia bits of warm bleeding into the pale like cinnamon sprinkled on your tongue tell me more lips before a kiss are the petals surrounding the golden sun a yellowed stamen more the blooms are a soft voice in love [...]
Inspirational, Literary
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SWAN SUMMER SERENADE • by Marc Latham 11 Comments
On sparkling summer evenings royal birds of ebony and ivory send golden ripples along gleaming silver reflective surfaces as they glide across to meet their kind Whooping greetings they meet under sun; sending shining shadows of elongated necks extending and kissing each others’ cheeks like mademoiselles on a Paris street Tangerine beaks raised and lowered [...]
Inspirational, Nature
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GRACE UNEXPECTED • by Tyrean Martinson 12 Comments
Struggling to keep my head up out of the mire of discontent and frustrated angry words, I hide from my seven year-old daughter who uses words like weapons. I know where she learned to do that. It shames me. So I hide In my room Hoping for some Reprieve, some grace From God, so I [...]
Inspirational, Relationships
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ARTISTS AGONY • by Daniel Stine 4 Comments
I have to apologize. Redemption can only come when I cease to be an affront to the collective mind, the God syndrome. I thrust to no parry other than the windmills. I have to cease. I must destroy myself, review my self, immerse myself in something other than myself. I cannot be. The illusions that [...]
Inspirational, Literary
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BRACEROS • by J. B. Hogan 10 Comments
Beneath the desert sun they worked: thin bodies bent double in dusty rows, with bronzed and calloused hands, thinning cotton with short-handled hoes. Mid-morning sun, eye-burning, strength-sapping heat rising in waves off the ground, thinking of lunch time beans and tortillas, jars of jalapeños, the afternoon ahead. Working fiercely for a dollar an hour, saving [...]
Inspirational, Literary, Poems, Social Comment
