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The Healing

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 Will Starr 3092 Views 6 Comments farm animals, grandpa, healing, rabbit, short story, Will Starr

The morning dew dampened the hem of her skirts as she walked the garden rows. Looking carefully around one

Free Verse Poetry

Neglect Leads to Loss

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 R J Schwartz 2881 Views 4 Comments break-up, loss, lost love, neglect, relationships

Time for me has come to an abrupt and chilling standstill My body wracked with an uncomfortable and nagging stiffness A

Creative Writing Humor

Hilarious Laws on the Books Across the United States

January 18, 2017August 30, 2017 R J Schwartz 4008 Views 4 Comments funny laws, illegal, laws, state laws

We’ve all heard of that one local ordinance or law which makes us shake our head, either in total amazement

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Snow and Sun

January 18, 2017January 19, 2017 Paul Neglia 4827 Views 10 Comments crystals, kiss, resplendent, snow, snow angels, snowy, sun

Freshly Fallen Snow Way tucked away beyond the eyes The

Free Verse Poetry

The Pirate King

January 18, 2017 Rasma Raisters 3116 Views 8 Comments pirate king, pirate ships, poems, poetry

The pirate ship bounded over the waves, the jolly Rodger waving in the breeze. Out upon the deck, stepped the

Free Verse Poetry

When there are no words

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 EdF 2321 Views 4 Comments

When there are no words The coffee is cooler now than when I started in truth I love it that way

Ode Poetry

Remembrance

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 Paul Neglia 2799 Views 9 Comments darkness, death, dirge, ebbs, elegy, mourn, soul

Remembrance, Beauty Sublime Supinely you laid a victim to time ‘til the trumpet keeper blows his trumpet clear A

Poetry Rhyming Verse

White Rock Road

January 16, 2017October 2, 2017 Kurt James 3147 Views 16 Comments

White Rock Road and I Still Believe In Magic. I was born in 1960 in Denver, Colorado. The story of

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

All I See Before Me….Infinity

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1825 Views 2 Comments age, dreams, gaze, humbled, infinity, poem

Infinity and me… Vanquished light recedes to night with a whimper, and star-crossed those beneath, gazing into the firmament, their

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

No Words to Say, Just Be

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2693 Views 10 Comments beauty, breeze, gloaming, night, poem, words

A dexterous touch, flesh tingling from the cool rush of air, as day falls slowly and shadows elongate, herald the

Ode Poetry

Echoes of the Dead Rising…who turned that light on?

January 15, 2017 Tony DeLorger 7102 Views 6 Comments bright, inconvenience, morning light, poem, rising, slumber lost

An Ode to Morn Rising… Do I choose the refracting light that infuses my dark slumber, teasing my sentience to

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Windmills

January 14, 2017January 16, 2017 John Hansen 3680 Views 14 Comments breeze, death, life, nature, wind, windmills

Windmills My life’s at Nature’s mercy So I pray that she is kind. Each year is spinning ’round and

Free Verse Poetry

C’est La Vie

January 14, 2017January 15, 2017 Rasma Raisters 3227 Views 14 Comments c'est la vie, life, love, poems, poetry

c’est la vie When life doesn’t, present you with roses, when

Free Verse Poetry

Midnight Rains

January 14, 2017January 4, 2024 Anjana 1417 Views 18 Comments imaginary, memories, raindrops, realities, sun

Midnight Rains How they always come so entwined your memories and these midnight rains, the silvery threads that once fondled

Free Verse Poetry

Symphony of Cracking – The Music of Winter

January 13, 2017January 4, 2024 R J Schwartz 2554 Views 9 Comments conductor, cracking, ice, poetry, sound, symphony, winter, winter poem

Plummeting temperatures ushering in a stillness without comparison Fluidity gives way to an opaque stiffness, often shimmering and beautiful Water

Poetry Rhyming Verse

More than Language

January 13, 2017May 31, 2018 Paul Neglia 2985 Views 23 Comments demons, heart, language, poetry, right, thoughts, verses, wrong

More Than Language It’s more a cadence than a march Your knees will bend your feet will arch Your

Epistle Poetry

The Blind Belief of Humanity

January 13, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2343 Views 2 Comments belief, blind, earth, poem, superiority, virus

Clearly sentience is subjective, impossibly all encompassing and rarely even partial, dependant upon perspective, yet in arrogance we deem ourselves

Epistle Poetry

The Volatility of Assumption

January 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2020 Views 2 Comments belief, epistle, hearsay, hurt, investment, truth

Tempered by a question posed, assumptions stand in abeyance, momentarily disarmed in light of clarity, yet assumptions can be irrefutable

Poetry Satire

Too Beguiling to Discern

January 12, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2172 Views 4 Comments beguiling, burned, fear, love, poem, too old

I bequeath this heart to science, for I know not how it works, so led astray by feminine wiles, so

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Pointless Regret…a lull in a receptive mind

January 12, 2017January 14, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2331 Views 10 Comments future, mistaken, poem, pointless, regret, Rose

Regret I hold like a wilting rose, pale and leached of all color, for what good is my piteous maudlin

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Remembering Why I Love Her – My Daily Exhilaration

January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 R J Schwartz 2552 Views 7 Comments love, poetry, romance, romantic poetry

So close, so very close. I find my fingertips poised in mid-air, nearly brushing the petals of the flower. Its

Poetry Romantic Poetry

Thoughts of You…a vacant space in a new day

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2588 Views 4 Comments loss, love, passion, poem, thoughts, you memories

When thoughts like clouds on a dawning day, shards in radiant display all splayed on sky, my heart recounts those

Epistle Poetry

No Burden Need be Heavy in Light

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2185 Views 2 Comments burden, epistle, freedom, kindness, love, malice

No burden is heavy when accepted with joy, yet we so malign our burdens until they are swollen with our