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trash rolls like tumbleweedsPoetry

trash rolls like tumbleweeds

Larry HoustonJune 7, 2023

and gets hung on the curb then, freed by the wind lands in brown weeds beside the big ditch. I kick at a beer…

My inner poet, like a child, makes believePoetry

My inner poet, like a child, makes believe

Mike CasettaJune 6, 2023

large pine trees in a bark beetle free forest after living long lives of capturing carbon & releasing oxygen & having been a home…

5:24AMPoetry

5:24AM

Mark Anthony PearceJune 5, 2023

I stepped outside my flat I named the bunker and there was a woman bestial with insane eyes surrounded by the trash of her…

myPoetry

my

John YamrusJune 2, 2023

poems are not meant to impress you. they are written to help me make it thru the night.

Should I ..Poetry

Should I ..

HughLemmaMay 31, 2023

Should I admit it all started as a pile of phrases and a symmetry fetish? Should I credit nighthawks and traffic in the liner…

Filing for bankruptcy of the soulPoetry

Filing for bankruptcy of the soul

Daniel J. Flore IIIMay 30, 2023

I am weeping. Please take my tears. It's all I have left. I lost myself. I don't want to find me either. I am…

I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting TimePoetry

I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting Time

Andy PosnerMay 27, 2023

I'll be brief, for we are both busy and the calendar Gods have laid waste to that idyllic peace which, if we're honest, is…

Big, Long, Red HairsPoetry

Big, Long, Red Hairs

Lance JencksMay 26, 2023

I screech and I hoot and I dance on this morning for sunlight through the windows, clean, cold air and a woman. It seems…

smart enough to knowPoetry

smart enough to know

Mike CasettaMay 25, 2023

what I don’t know could fill volumes… the formula is V = s3 if all of the things I don’t know were stored inside…

Chisos DreamPoetry

Chisos Dream

Raymond HuffmanMay 24, 2023

Near the Mexico border in the Chisos Mountains of West Texas they say it is so dark that you can see the entire Milky…

Wooden SpoonsPoetry

Wooden Spoons

John GurneyMay 23, 2023

in the kitchen of the blacksmith there are only wooden spoons his hand pauses to examine the sky silverware falters tumbles from the clouds…

GracePoetry

Grace

HughLemmaMay 21, 2023

It is there when a hole in the road accommodates the water that carved it and later, the patch that fills it, when a…