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Poem: Through the girdle

By: Allison Grayhurst of mute despair where love is murdered by a flying breath, and old age is a house that never opens, the key was around your neck and suddenly, you were gone. Paint bubbles over into the killing flame….

Poem: Call Me By Name

By: Allison Grayhurst Speak to me in the pestilence of my afternoon, in the dungeon of my self-pity. Speak to me though love has stopped its singing and the arrows of wintry worries sting my weary drum. Speak to me to…

Poem: This Is Not To Suffer

By: Allison Grayhurst the thinning years of a lifespan roped by bitter nightfall the volt of mourning that mourns the range of ambition to success the blind rodent that frees itself of self-preservation the hard days of unknowing that last beyond…

Poem: In Memory of Ken Patterson

By: Keith Moul At its beginning forty years ago, this poem was formless and void. I don’t remember precisely a sequence of first days and nights, but with Ken there was energy of new light, separate from the dark, big…

Poem: Opportunity

By: Keith Moul Discerning fully its act, Genius breaks into a glass house, breaking glass but indifferent to its breaking felony LAW. Tiny splinters now attend Genius, inhibiting a full search. More clattering ensues, stark collapse of weakened walls. Genius understands…

Poem: i will endure you no more

By: Linda M Crate all you do is irritate me you are toxic to my health and my happiness so i’ve walked away our friendship was never much years of paltry things i always gave and you always took always…

Poem: back off

By: Linda M Crate how many times must i say no before you realize i’ll never say yes? how many times must i say i don’t like you before it clicks? leave me alone i have no interest in dead…

Poem: Micro

By: Tempest Brew  we are small beings in a small universe pretending to be large we are the voice of reason that is stifled because we are mute and do not realize it until much too late.

Poem: Dance on Chance

By Pijush Kanti Deb Dance on chance- the great popular hymn to attack on and conquer a stage to rule on but to me- a chance appeared one night in my bedroom in disguise of a heaven-touching skyscraper but surprisingly…