The Cost of a Human Life, a Poem by Michael Shoemaker
I sat as an observer in a state’s superior court. First-degree murder was the charge. Cold-blooded calculated murder was the act. One...
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- Oct 17
- 1 min
Jaded, a Poem by Debra Ayis
I am Jaded The pretense, treachery, Deception and lies Dark unyielding hearts controlled by hate I am hardened The wars, the conflict...
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- Oct 13
- 1 min
Your Own Heart, a Poem by Peter Kaczmarczyk
I grew up thinking My suburban life Filled with liberal minds And high-minded rhetoric Had taught me all I needed to know But you cannot...
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- Oct 6
- 2 min
After Coming Out of the Cocoon, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
if I started, “Once upon a time, not so long ago, lived a man with a habit of regretting his mistakes and making more in the process,”...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Even Jesus Asked Where God Was, a Poem by Renee Emerson*
Each week the technician presses the wand across my womb. I know better than to ask for interpretations, the half-heart still flickering,...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Since I Saw the Ocean, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
they ask me if i still think of death, i say i always have a shadow, like shafts of rain falling in sunlight. i don’t need monsters and...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
At the Professor’s Table, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
we are asleep inside ourselves. we know you when the dawn sneaks in on a sleeping forest and catches her unawares; we struggle to find...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
In Pursuit of the Things that Don’t Demand my Demise, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
I’m not ungrateful to the days the sun was darker than the gathering of a thousand nights, and the nights the moon was as timid as a...
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- Oct 4
- 2 min
As Fate Uncuffs Another Dawn, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
"Listen to me. There will be a day when the world will need you most — be alive on that day." - Michael Wasson. I don’t disagree that...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Scars, a Poem by Chris White*
cut from events and ensuing wounds, body helpless, intently attuned. fragile afflictions, tender and bruised, crouch and hide, any...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Skytrain Serenade, a Poem by Ace Baker*
I’ve learned to keep my faith in place, and sing of streets, warm hands cupped around coffee, fresh memories steaming to the surface,...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Firefly, a Poem by Katherine Gotthardt*
The world could use more fireflies. Not in a jar, but brightening that space – you know, the one between the space, the night we stare...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Like a Snail I'll Taste the World an Inch at a Time, a Poem by Anne Marie Wells*
A ribcage After Athena Liu I'm nearing the second cairn, the first long gone [like] that first summer I learned how cruelty can live by...
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- Oct 4
- 2 min
Hanamo, a Poem by Flo Au*
Cluster bombs of ashes and metals and petals of you and me and him and her suffocate the air in the blizzards of fears swiveling our...
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- Oct 4
- 1 min
Stay Till the Dawn, You Might Get the Sun, a Poem by Fatima Abdullahi*
I gave my country a home in my chest. With my first cry and my father's signature, I stamped my mark into its soil, & clothed myself with...
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