Archive for Other
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NATURAL • by Chad Nellis Sinclair
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waking moon cricket’s nightly union Buddha’s song Chad Nellis Sinclair lives with his wife in China and besides teaching and playing jazz and blues music in town, he likes to take time out when he can and be around his Penjing (bonsai) trees and write poems and short stories. He finds that being [...]
Other, Poems
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TAKE • by Carol Ayer 3 Comments
What a strange expression it is, “take” being such an active, positive verb. One is supposed to take a job or a lover, a leap, a trip, or control. I know this: I wish I could have taken your pain, an action that would have prevented years later a poem describing the awkward, [...]
Other, Poems
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DINNER • by Julie deGarie 2 Comments
He seems to know what the pot is for. Sluggish. he struggles to find traction on the cool blue tiles, to haul himself away from the flame and simmering water. Perhaps we should have left him in his snug refrigerator bag, his low crustacean brain drowsy, dreaming of [...]
Other, Poems
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WORDS FROM STARS • by Rohini Gupta 6 Comments
all night hours fall like leaves I am awake lost in the milky way weaving words from stars and very far from sleep I am awake in the high tide of the dark watching this silent autumn strewn with dreams Rohini Gupta lives by the sea and writes fiction and poetry.
Other, Poems
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A SUMMER’S DAY IN OZ • by Vincent DiPietro 3 Comments
I am but a heap in truth, A collection of last year’s crops, a plethora of death and decay collected momentarily by twine. I stand at my post, carefully gazing into my battalion, my onslaught of inanimate mutes, and so am I. The north wind returns a nemesis, carries the weight of corrupt [...]
Other, Poems
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TREE SNAKE • by Bill West 7 Comments
Pines hiss winds here come strong Winter wind brought down the pear tree long dead and left an ivy hedge across our lawn. Dead trees don’t bend stiff with accreted life stag heads jerking as if remembering what it was like to be young. Daily we grow more gnarled sap thins and we like trees [...]
Other, Poems
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UPON EXAMINING THE ARTIFACT • by Akeith Walters 4 Comments
Even though there’s no memory pressed into the cement of city streets, no footprints left to harden in millennia’s mud to be noticed later, the same sounds remain to bounce off stone and glass at an unnoticed pace through a scratchy summer’s radiance and a callous winter’s embrace. Then is [...]
Other, Poems
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THE NEED TO KNOW • by CDSinex 4 Comments
suspicion replaces trust masks hope afraid of today tomorrow will come soon enough or not at all yesterday was erased for safety the need to know nothing memories are enemies when the state is run by dangerous men CDSinex David had lived in rural Hokkaido (Japan’s northernmost island) for 20 years, and enjoys the [...]
Other, Poems
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FOLDING MEMORIES • by Maire Morrissey-Cummins 8 Comments
A perfect square, it pleats in four then folds in two, forms a triangle to insert into a suit pocket. Silken, sleek as the first primroses of Spring smooth as the surface of a wave-washed pebble cool as the embrace of a Summer breeze, I place it under my pillow in memory of [...]
Other, Poems
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JAFFA CAKE • by Joe Cifrin No Comments
The crumbs I couldn’t use are in the biscuit jar lid screwed tight it slides a little further away each time I stare at it wears dust for camouflage until it’s so far down the worktop I can barely see it forgotten behind the sugar bowl I catch sight of it washing-up or when [...]
Humour/Satire, Other, Poems, Surreal
