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Self Same

07.21.14 Posted in today's words by

L Ward Abel’s poem Over appeared here in June 2014. Self Same By L Ward Abel …….Mapmakers give lines for when and where it doesn’t freeze. I have to be close to that line tonight. …….Almost where the heat never wanes breathes a coast under half moons made for people who can’t sleep. …….Wide and […]


[Don’t Stop Trying to Commandeer]

07.20.14 Posted in today's words by

Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was Can Kill Above (March 2014). Don’t Stop Trying to Commandeer By Steven Minchin If I don’t stop trying to commandeer your eyes To get to your mind I’ll go mad with speculation See, now that it’s clear that you won’t give, Won’t blindly subside, I’m twisting […]


Blossom

07.19.14 Posted in today's words by

Glenn Johnson’s most recent poem to appear here was Blossom By Glenn Johnson Before my eyes, your beauty a pageant, a procession of spring blossomings ever unfolding one after another mesmerizing mysterious shimmers of reincarnated loveliness. How do you do this? I have no clue. Nothing I could make up, too rare to contrive, although, […]


Holding Tank 911

07.18.14 Posted in today's words by

KC Bosch’s most recent poem to appear here was Two Beers Down (April 2014), written with Stan Galloway. Holding Tank 911 By KC Bosch Sharky was not really a shark, just a catfish who looked like one, his long dark body amongst the neon orange of his cellmates in a forgotten square pond, caught stealing […]


Butterfly

07.17.14 Posted in today's words by

Cary Lynne wrote this poem. Butterfly By Cary Lynne Butterfly cheered his new look who knew the chances? Surreal to the sway and swing and sail aglint in the daffodil sun. Tinged the rose, dodged the oak, glanced the leaf and graced the mud, bumped the muddy screen, hailed the big begonia, and landed in […]


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