Archive for Relationships
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TWO WEEKS IN SPRING • by Damien Walters Grintalis
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We stood under the tree, arms outstretched, fallen pink confetti petals tangled in our hair. A perfumed kiss drifted down, danced on skin, soft, like the first touch of lips. Later, we found a blossom tucked inside a pocket, pressed it between pages in a book, a hidden reminder of [...]
Literary, Relationships
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WANDERER • by p.k.n.panicker 7 Comments
Wandered all around and for long, searching for a lodge to stay a night; never remembered the small place within you where I could build a home. p.k.n.panicker a chemical engineer by profession, has two books of poems published. 1.’Random Reflections’ published by Minerva Press2004 ; 2. ‘Insight’ by Window Publishers’ 2007. He also [...]
Other, Relationships
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BED OF TEARS • by Amy Corbin 19 Comments
I had always been afraid of what giving me “something to cry about” would feel like. Like soap wedged between clenched teeth wasn’t a good enough reason. Reason could have been his belt. Belt thrashing my scrawny legs. It was true what he’d said about pain. Pain was seeing that [...]
Other, Relationships
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MEMORIAL • by James Graham 20 Comments
The stone is ready. In memory of our beloved daughter – we accepted the mason’s English lesson, to omit ‘loving’ before ‘memory’, or else ‘beloved’ before ‘daughter’.The last of many declarations of this love. Enough. These are all the words the stone will say. I have crossed the waste land, almost all the way. I [...]
Other, Relationships
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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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THE DANCE OF THE SUN AND THE MOON • by dj barber 12 Comments
That moment, between Sunday’s rest, Monday’s grind. Third game broadcasted now complete, he yawns, shaking his head as he exits the den, his office pool 8-6. Marathon of lust and betrayal concludes, Lifetime’s best, she sighs, wishing for the excitement other lives lead, but too afraid to return that bearded smile at [...]
Literary, Relationships
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TOP-HEAVY • by Richard M. O’Donnell 5 Comments
Tan sandals white socks long, pale legs disappear into Daisy Dukes but Ohio springs are deceptive morning promises summer noon delivers winter forcing the naive co-ed crossing against the light to bundle back into her parka creating a top-heavy costume so disproportionate to the season I want to shout, “Put your pants on!” Not for [...]
Literary, Relationships
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THE ALLIGATOR XYLOPHONE • by Lucien E. G. Spelman 18 Comments
My son tows the plastic alligator xylophone behind. He is everything that I want to be; risible, willful, daring. Full of woodnotes. Free of skepsis. True. He is laying a trail for me to follow. My impatience of his tiny steps reveals me to me. I am hardly yet who I want to be; worrying, [...]
Other, Relationships
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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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THICKLY WITH ME • by Catherine Langford 13 Comments
Do you know I think about leaving you and what it is that I leave? It is this: your thick outside scent that cloys in my throat, those rough woollen jumpers, unwashed, so full of you. Battered jeans, torn and oil stained always too long, worn to an arch at each heel. Gumboots, green-soled, brand [...]
Other, Poems, Relationships
