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Feelz Trip I got tired of pushing sublime at my students. William Cowper, Lord Byron, James Thomson, Samuel Rogers?! Let’s just say those old boys weren’t hitting under the busted-up ceiling panels and flickering fluorescent lights of my classroom. My students were squirming in the hard plastic cells of their desks, so I decided to […]
Read more "FEELZ TRIP ~ Tim Staley"6 new micro poems 1 Note to the poets: All the poems have already been written Use google.com 2 Why do you need wings if you are not a bird? 3 Just grab the emptiness of the apartment with your hands The cat gave birth to dead kittens They are all called Jesus 4 He looked towards the burning sea and said to me And […]
Read more "6 new micro poems ~ Mykyta Ryzhykh"THE TAKE OUT I paddle the kayaks back to the boathouse. First the sea yak with it’s great tracking Then the little yellow one for children And finally the two small blue ones Good for racing because they’re equally handicapped. Now the sailboat’s just a dingly, I lost the sail when i capsized. I swim […]
Read more "3 lost poems by TIM STALEY"Soldiering through an internal war Helpless in a hospital, While laid out like a cadaver, My thoughts are mercurial. Petitioning for health is my endeavor. Although zeroed on my pain, I look at the TV news, Feeling levels of disdain And guilt for writing the blues. Some people in war-torn lands remain strong. Undaunted, they’re […]
Read more "Soldiering through an internal war ~ Bob McNeil"WALLY WORLD In the flower pencil I write. Writing while im drifting away. Drifting away to the tulip field, I dont like tulips. Though the fragrant is more beautiful then the tulip, Roses are more my style Roses I find at the store with the blue name The store that is solid for everything, To […]
Read more "REYLEAN LUCERO ~ WALLY WORLD"LOVE AND TIME INTERTWINED The past never thought the present could be such a gift, nor did the future predict I would forfeit to this pretty woman’s kiss, never did the future guess that this woman would happily live in my skin, settle in my mind, be the first in the heart hotel to check […]
Read more "Damian Mercer ~ LOVE AND TIME INTERTWINED"HONORABLE MENTION – Michael Taylor Utah GirlsI wanna be more disciplined and responsiblePissing off a mountain into a riverYour watermelon can’t believe, approve, or understand your behavior and he is very upsetGrumpy man with with a tan, sitting in a lawn chair in a blizzard, Coca-Cola in hand, upsidedown, drinking his magazineMy teacher told me […]
Read more "WINNING POEMS FROM THE 3rd ANNUAL KAREN TRUJILLO TEEN POETRY CONTEST ~ LAS CRUCES, NM ~2024"i want a requiem by a requiem for (birdfolk in the Xingqinggong Park and elsewhere) sparrows and brownie song thrushes moiling rustling blades panicles scattered tree nuts fallen leaves taking death with such light heart they have gone live again flickering flames like acorns and filberts fed by sun-eating leaves they’ve made themselves plump as […]
Read more "Lucie Chou ~ i want a requiem by a requiem for"AS MY PHONE LAY DYING My phone lay in its cradle breathing its last Breath as it slowly dies in front of my very Eyes. The incessant little beep enough to drive Some out of their sad little minds but for me I Count the moments until they stop or I just put The damn […]
Read more "5 POEMS ~ Bradford Middleton"Metered Billing Even the moon rues its union with the Earth. Inch by inch, at the rate of a fingernail’s growth, it’s creating ways to glide away the same way we would when someone sneezes around our space. But can you find that object’s decision objectionable? It gave us turning tides, romantic nights, mythos, poems, […]
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