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Arco Idaho and Atomic Power

October 13, 2018 Jamie Lee Hamann 1882 Views 5 Comments American Agriculture, Arco Idaho, Atomic Energy, Nuclear Power

I. Idaho After many miles of driving through fields, through Idaho Falls and into the plains where sky is broken

The Day You Went Away

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 Rasma Raisters 4070 Views 8 Comments clouds, day you went away, poems, poetry, the sky, the wind

Into that world forbidden to me … The day you went away, a strong wind blew, it blew across the

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October in pastel

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 EdF 1876 Views 4 Comments autumn, colors, fall, introspect, melancholy, October, retrospect

October in pastels … The evenings longer now as October calls on me again laying fragile all emotion introspect

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Dancer In The Night- Pole Dancer

October 10, 2018 Vincent Moore 2414 Views 6 Comments entertainer, poetry, Poledancer, Stage, stripper, Vincent Moore

The Pole Dancer Who

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The Galactic Traveler – Beyond the Earth

October 9, 2018October 12, 2018 John Hansen 2065 Views 8 Comments earth, galaxy, space ship, space travel, universe

The Galactic Traveler I race across the Universe Ten times the speed of light. To work the mines of Mercury

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Urge to Run

October 6, 2018October 6, 2018 Kurt James 7791 Views 10 Comments Cowboy in me, doubts bout love, kurt james, The Colorado Storyteller, Urge to Run

Urge To Run The urge to run has taken over my thoughts I forever ponder, Born 150 years to late

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As the Weather Gets Colder

October 5, 2018October 6, 2018 Rasma Raisters 2528 Views 4 Comments autumn, chill, cold weather, cuddle, poems, poetry

As the Weather Gets Colder … The weather is getting colder, the winds much bolder, as swirling leaves go dancing

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Hallowed Walk…a Lie

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Paul Neglia 1997 Views 6 Comments cold, hopeless, inconsequential, petty, vengeful

Hallowed Dreams…a Lie Many tears you must have shed in the outlines of rain, Again I request an audience

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Morning Zombie

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1942 Views 8 Comments morning zombie, new day, poetry, reticence, risen sun, shuffle

Between the cracks, through glass and air, light imparts its rise upon a waking soul, and warmth like a tender

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Main Street Poets

October 4, 2018 Vincent Moore 2554 Views 12 Comments barfly, Bukowski, main street, poet, poetry, Vincent Moore

Main Street Poet’s Our stories are told today by young

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Lily Pads

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 Tony DeLorger 6272 Views 2 Comments lily pads, poetry, reflections, so green, stepping stones, striving

Lily pads standing tall reaching through the shadows, yearning blooms to sun’s allure, petals opened yet quite demure, asking for

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Fortress Walls

October 3, 2018 Vincent Moore 2016 Views 8 Comments castle, chamber, fears, Fortress, poetry, Vincent Moore

Fortress Walls This night the poet turns in bed and wrestles

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One Too Many Bad Deals

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 Paul Neglia 2099 Views 7 Comments bad deal, blind to evil, Dark, succumbing, tricked by the devil

With partners like the devil … Where is the savior with his haloed phalanx, his steadfast gunners with the glued

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Our Father Spoke in Hieroglyph

October 3, 2018 Jamie Lee Hamann 2252 Views 2 Comments Childhood, Egyptians, father, Hieroglyph

1. Hieroglyph Incantations Our father spoke mysterious symbols. “I am not Egyptian but Suburban,” his collared shirt wrapped up like

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Ancestry…its resounding voice

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2083 Views 8 Comments ancestry, family, guidance, love, poetry, soul's path

The will to live so poignant, the struggle so immense, innate within a seed for endurance, a prerequisite, to win,

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Old man with calloused hands

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 EdF 2152 Views 1 Comment calloused hands, cousins, Native American, native crafts, old man, relatives

An old man with calloused hands … As old as time with calloused hands the native Abenaki written deep in

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Petrarch Sonnet – For I Have Loved You

October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3009 Views 10 Comments eternity, friend, life, loved you, Phyllis Doyle, reflection

I Have Loved You When I reflect how my life is going then I find within me more that is

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My Friend the Forest

October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 Rasma Raisters 2510 Views 6 Comments another world, magical world, poems, poetry, the forest

It felt like I was in another world … I hadn’t had the time, to go back to visit for

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Chamber of the Tall

October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 Tony DeLorger 2286 Views 4 Comments chamber, cycles, forest, life, nature, poetry

A single leaf can be heard falling in the forest, as a silent yearning of growth abounds, and as

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Short Poetry in review…

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1897 Views 2 Comments inspiration, life, nature, review, short poetry, Verse

Heaven Sent ‘The silent gloaming steals the breath from reflections awe, like glass, the sky fulfilled beauty’s guile restored, and

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Lost loves in other words

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 EdF 1985 Views 4 Comments astral plane, bewitched, eternity, indifference, kind hearted

Lost loves … Lost loves in other words They said she was bewitched in loving but I know that she

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Misty Morn…a collaboration

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1772 Views 5 Comments collaboration, evoking feelings, misty morn, nature's beauty, Photograph, short poetry

Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, and in poetry we try to pass that vision on, to

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She Drives Me Crazy

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 Paul Neglia 2528 Views 10 Comments Bad relationship, crazy, evil, heartbreaking, scornful

She Drives Me Crazy….in a bad way. Serotonin wells in the shallow crevasses— Amalgamating in my wanting brain I entreat