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Thesaurus Wikipedia declined my definition of Thesaurus—I can’t understand why: “The Thesaurus was a large theropod, about 26 ft. in...
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Connie Anderson
- Apr 10, 2018
- 1 min
A Poet's Strife
A Poet’s Strife Two married men sit in a local bar Tossing down a whiskey and water. One, a poet, asks, “Water, how can it rhyme, Unless...
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John Grey
- Apr 7, 2018
- 1 min
On a Block Island Beach
On a Block Island Beach The beach won't give up its light easily. The sea-grass tinges gold. Waves foam bright white. The couple in the...
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Alex Nodopaka
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min
Birds
Birds made of bronze do not fly but they sing when stricken on their armored plumage with a conductor's baton of imagination. Tame from...
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Jennifer Copley
- Mar 12, 2018
- 1 min
Night Worker
Night Worker Her job, to mop out cubicles. Fifty-four pans to bleach, ten sinks to scrub. She hates it all— the hairs, the slime, the...
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Jack Granath
- Mar 9, 2018
- 1 min
Publishing the Poems
Publishing the Poems Arthur was a poet. When he was a child, he had discovered a wonderful little spot by the river. It consisted of an...
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Nadia Giordana
- Mar 6, 2018
- 1 min
Cleopatra Eyes
Cleopatra Eyes Dark, mysterious, deceptive and sad— revealing only minute, metered glimpses of the ancient soul on the other side of...
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John Wellers
- Mar 4, 2018
- 1 min
Company
Company A torrent slaps the smack-wet rock-moss floor Your grimy hand which rolls and slurps and grasps How dank and primitive; our...
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Justin Hyde
- Mar 1, 2018
- 1 min
Justin Hyde, 2 poems
this morning as we walk along the iowa river she wants a promise of forever. i want to tell her: if your ex-husband put down the bottle i...
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Michael Rossberg
- Feb 26, 2018
- 1 min
Haiku
Dark, cold, lonely days; Hunker down, make use of Time, and see it through. #MichaelRossberg
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Rick Blum
- Feb 23, 2018
- 1 min
Magic Moment
Magic Moment She was decoupling from a fling gone stale suffering doubts intermingled with pain I was a transplant trying to inhale this...
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Fabrice Poussin
- Feb 20, 2018
- 1 min
Fabrice Poussin, 2 poems
Cheating Hand on the cold blue steel too late the thought came to stop already the burning mixed with the soul he rested at last on the...
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Alex Nodopaka
- Feb 17, 2018
- 2 min
Featured Poet, Issue 3
The Onion Poem I suggest when you have a writer's block start peeling each overlapping line of your poem and create a paper ball that...
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Lynn Garthwaite
- Feb 14, 2018
- 2 min
He’s Very Nearly Perfect
He’s very nearly perfect Those pearly whites, steady income. That charm and humor. I may have finally landed the prize in this one....
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Michael Felix
- Feb 12, 2018
- 1 min
Old Hands
You have old hands, she said Looking at them dubiously That was ‘71 I was twenty-two Just out of the navy She lived in a loft In south...
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Laurie Byro
- Feb 9, 2018
- 2 min
Samhain Tarot
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? —Isadora Duncan Inside the...
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Connie Anderson
- Jan 31, 2018
- 1 min
Abandoned
No more children playing In the hayloft, No horses neighing In their stalls No farmers scattering Cracked corn for the chicks, No more...
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John Grey
- Jan 28, 2018
- 1 min
John Grey: Two Poems
Taking a Moment Out From Perfection to Tell You This Early fall evening, full moon slowly ascending that invisible arc over the lake. I'm...
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Jim Zola
- Jan 25, 2018
- 1 min
The Firebug Finds Love
The Firebug Finds Love If they made a sulfur scented aftershave, I’d rock it. But I seldom need to shave. The man next door hides...
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