Literary Yard

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Year: 2015

Poem: Voices of the Dead

By: Gary Beck I think about our wounded land crushed by overwhelming burdens and wish that voices from the past could counsel us in time of need. But then I wake and remember our paucity of leadership and wonder if…

Poem: Recruit

By: Gary Beck I considered the army to escape the confines of a ravaged city, cowering in despair from loss of industry. My hope for a good job evaporated quickly and I was sick of listening to the old guys…

Poem: For Whom We Mourn

By: Gary Beck Too many children die premature deaths at the merciless hands of aberrant caretakers, mothers, boy friends, fathers, uncles, combining to extinguish the brief existence of helpless victims, murderously betrayed by their protectors.

Poem: Nameless Villain

By: Linda M Crate you think that you’re the cat’s meow, but you are not hak’s strong yona just a nameless forgotten girl rude and spoiled and entitled marching through making demands no one even hears; you reach for me…

Poem: i sing nevermore

By: Linda M Crate your bones were too heavy to carry so i dropped them watched them break and shatter just as you tried to do to my dreams, but the fire you used to envelope them built me back…

Poem: Remembrance

By: Linda M Crate i find it so hard to let you go you were a piece of my soul i was never meant to lose my heart cannot forget the chaos left behind in your wake, and i know…

Poem: Implication

By: JD DeHart buried between the lines, a hidden truth reclines like a retiree in the sun of old age, comfortable and elusive meaning obscured by a semantic surface