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None of My BusinessPoetry

None of My Business

Mike CasettaOctober 30, 2023

The full moon was staring at me. I felt it in Braille. Thousands of little raised dots erupted on my skin. I lifted my…

why poetryPoetry

why poetry

Mike CasettaOctober 29, 2023

love is a lion your head in its mouth poetry in your throat

A Memorial Day to rememberPoetry

A Memorial Day to remember

Ken TomaroOctober 28, 2023

I was feeling down it was Memorial Day weekend and I just wanted to sit among nature along with a hundred other dumb souls…

The day I don’t singPoetry

The day I don’t sing

Sara ClancyOctober 27, 2023

is the day I find the wolves you can count on that. I will follow along the s-curve of your path, the one that…

DelusionPoetry

Delusion

Sherry CassellsOctober 26, 2023

Tony next door is suddenly old I saw him yesterday curved behind his slow lawn mower and Eric across the street rickety with his…

CarlaPoetry

Carla

james stephenOctober 25, 2023

Carla at the Veterans Crisis Line tells me she has never met with negativity like mine I didn't tell her I've met plenty of…

The Mist on the WaterPoetry

The Mist on the Water

D. E. KernOctober 24, 2023

He pointed it out like a carnival oddity​ a bearded lady or monkey playing guitar, perhaps an albino deer or lion with the head…

nobodyPoetry

nobody

John YamrusOctober 23, 2023

knows the last time is the last time until it is.  

the hurtPoetry

the hurt

John YamrusOctober 22, 2023

was worse than anything he could have imagined, but he didn’t want to dull it, so he put aside the glass... walked out in…

i’ve been shit on…Poetry

i’ve been shit on…

John YamrusOctober 21, 2023

this time by a bird whose aim was more direct, on target and effective than any of the critics who dislike me, my poems,…

Wind & TreesPoetry

Wind & Trees

james stephenOctober 20, 2023

I mean, put my car in your pool you know we are never going to forestry school together no food, no water Omaha Beach…

PresencePoetry

Presence

HughLemmaOctober 19, 2023

There are no words, only eyes in a silent world where your presence is enough; there is no time, only pure promise, memories like…