Archive for Poems
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ILLUMINATING THE CORE TEXT • by Kaolin Imago Fire
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Your mind an open canvas, I paint neurons with magic: broad strokes for coarse matters, swirling a palette of neurotransmitters that tickle and tease sparks down axons so-rarely traveled … Hallucinations ghost themselves along the optic nerve, playing will-they won’t-they left and right across your chiasm … You shudder with an induced religious ecstasy, [...]
Poems, SciFi
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THE OLD MUSEUM • by Mary J. Daley 3 Comments
Tiny twisters of sun spun dust line the entrance of the old museum that stands all mustard paint on hot summer asphalt three steps west from the town’s only pool. On a dare we enter to move stealthily past the dead things. Past chicken-wire cupboards where animals pose on branch or board. Upright, unsettled in [...]
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NEAR CAIRNS • by Phillip A. Ellis 2 Comments
Swung high over rainforest, this gondola both creeps and creaks at the cables. I wonder if, underneath the cover of the treetops, someone could listen to it pass, complainant in wire unto the day, and as it rises. We others are all too frightened to look out, but she looks down to the [...]
Literary, Poems
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AFTER THE DAY’S CATCH • by Theodore E. Hovey 3 Comments
There is a boat now resting, in late evening sunlight, on its own shadow. And where the bowline ties the craft to a gray quay, gulls, quiet and peaceful in the dusky light, watch a wave bob the hull over anchor and stern line; the fishes swimming about in the aftershine. [...]
Nature, Poems, Surreal
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VERONA • by Carson Pierpont 1 Comment
I rented a red scooter and zoomed around all day while the Italians laughed and cheered me on. And at night from the patios of cafes I stared up into the hills at the dots which were castles, and at the moon, in whose light, Juliet blended perfectly into the balcony. Competition [...]
Humour/Satire, Poems
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THE DANCING BUG • by Roy Sutirtha No Comments
The dancing bug slowly turned his head and looked at the sky – but there was no sunshine. A few lawnmower men – musing beneath the poplar trees, bizarre monochrome noises, of metallic wheels – stuck inside the fender mixed with grass and blood… His colourful jovial terpsichorean moves and the waves of unheard [...]
Poems, Surreal
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LISTEN • by James Graham 2 Comments
A shoal of beans is waiting. It’s extra- sensory, but if you have the power you know they’re saying Heat. We have travelled far from Haricot Valley, it is time.They are simple but complete: make no decisions, do not calculate or reason, but are wise about the stuff of life. They know they’re bountiful. [...]
Other, Poems
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MEETING BEFORE BREAKFAST • by C.L. Holland No Comments
An early meeting is unappetising like crumpets without butter. I chew dry facts, contemplating croissants. A flow diagram suggests mushrooms and scrambled eggs lead to baked beans and bacon, perhaps a pot of tea and kedgeree. Boiled eggs and soldiers march in the graph’s neat lines. Or pancakes, stacked and dripping maple syrup, [...]
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NOT JUST FOR THE BIRDS • by C.B. Anderson 2 Comments
The heartbreaking pall Of life’s dirty secrets Means nothing at all To herons and egrets That rise on their wings And fly to a harbor Where fruit fit for kings Adorning each arbor Is still de rigueur. Salubrious potions Like melon liqueur And cucumber lotions Restore the old mood Where geysers of feeling And plenteous [...]
Other, Poems
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A GENTLE MOMENT • by Eamon Ó Cléirigh 8 Comments
Sunrise on Lough Derg. A fish-hungry cormorant slips beneath, leaving a gentle moment in its wake. Across the lough, thrill-hungry, a joyrider ploughs his inflatable through the morning peace. I wish the cormorant a hearty breakfast. Competition HERE Eamon Ó Cléirigh lives in Sligo in Ireland. He writes long fiction and [...]
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