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Poetry and Poetic Prose. Creative contributions from our talented guest poets.
Proud
Clinging to her
child - her
dead son -
she would not
let him go -
her feet kept
beating back
and forth,…
Lest We Forget!
Lest We Forget
There on the Flanders fields we lay
We gave our bodies but our souls still stay
The war was…
The Widows Trial
The Widows Trial
She awoke at dawn
and recognized her thirst
but how to slake
that which kept awake
her…
Disregard
The priviledged pointlessness of being there
to blend in
and stick out
like a lent dinner jacket at La…
Blind like a Sea
blind like ants in the shadow
of a step, or a temple - a day after war -
blind like a crosswalk or a keyhole…
This Soul Will Not Be Coerced
just here for the entertainment sir, left all that contrition shit at the door what's that? an exclusion order…
Note to Heaven
I often wondered what it would be like to ask my Grandfather those questions left in my heart. For as I have…
Shadows of the Revolution – A November Sonnet
Shadows of the Revolution
The occupiers and the tea drinkers
Are getting restless, all across this land…
The Blues
Sing those blues Sing those blues, baby, toes tapping in dusty shoesBeat of the music that stirs your soul.…
Transubstantiation – A Vision
I did not immediately know the significance of the vision, clearly it was a dream of some strange and strong…
Rituals and Crickets
She wore red
midriff across her breast
she took the path
that led to her nestThe crickets sang
a…
A Poem for Sylvia Plath
"Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted." You could have lived you know…You would…
Please, Shut Up
I’m bombing it, bombing it tried to swallow back the honesty but I drank too much and my mouth has rushed…
She Focused on His Lips
The woman stared,
and focused on a
cherry he bit
between his lip's.
Shipwrecked Souls
Forgotten souls trapped
A ship destined for nowhere
Is long forgottenSurrounded by fog
Seen by passing…