Literary Yard

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Month: July 2023

woman looking at sea while sitting on beach

I wanted to try on the pain

By: Melissa Aaronberg I wanted to try on the painTo see if grief would constrict me like a corsetOr settle upon me like fine dust.I will borrow the tears like wedding pearlsAnd hover around that dark shoreBut not too deep…

woman in black long sleeve shirt and black pants sitting on white wooden bridge

‘Sixth Time’s the Charm’ and other poems

By: Jim Murdoch Sixth Time’s the Charm Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Clarence Boothe Luce First loves are forever, true or not— every fool and his frog knows that—but so are seconds and thirds and so-ons. What the book-smart…

photo of two white ducks on water during fog

‘Fog’ and other poems

By Karen Lee Stradford Fog I can’t see.No ideawhat I may run into.I’ll take my chances. I have faith.A better view is-waiting for meonthe other side. ### Grass looks greener It looks so perfect.Nothing seems out of place.Your organization is-impeccable….

hand of a person holding black semi automatic pistol

Gun Games

By: Harrison Abbott He would come in for coffee many mornings a week. I liked him the first time I saw him, and then more and more as he kept returning; he had such a sunny face. At the start…

diligent small girl drawing on paper in light living room at home

A Child’s imagination in a flight

By: Chandra Shekhar Dubey We are flying, we are flyingabove the ground, skyscrapersabove the river, green valesand forest deep above the pasturesdeep ocean where demoness meetsher lover above the clouds in the sky.We are flying ,we are flyingacross the colonies…

himalayan salt lamp near laptop on wooden table

Mind Block

By: Suveeksha Viswanathan Of my days spent in reclusion or so it seems, the confinement that I subjected myself to was of the crazy kind if not the kind that leaves your artifices bare. Raw talent as you may call…

shallow focus photography of paintbrush

Should not an artist

By: Daniel Millard Should not an artistStarve himselfDown to aGood fighting weight? Writing himself outTo be theChampion of his times Echoing back – calling to his matesReaching back to all of those paintedYesterday’sAges that he knew he would never haveSurvivedLight…

inspirational phrase coming out of a typewriter

‘Not Rigorous Enough’ and other poems

By: KJ Hannah Greenberg Not Rigorous Enough When words are rigorous enough to illuminate the discourse amidst dysfunctional adults,To create meaning from world leader’s remarks, to probe sundry romance novels, peopleContend that the breadth, external validity, & heuristic benefit discounting…