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                      November 3, 2023
                      water drop
                      Published by Susan Carberry at November 3, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      Out of Water

                      I stepped into the bar where old men sat grumbling, young barman pulled pints from a pump.
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                      October 28, 2023
                      trick or treat! A Spooky Sight poetry cover image with jack-o-lanterns all lit up
                      Published by Claire L Marsh at October 28, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Holidays
                      • Poetry

                      A Spooky Sight

                      What if I chose trick and not treat? I’d have more fun but less to eat…
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                      October 21, 2023
                      haunting woman with red overs over dark candles - ready for one small bite, a poem
                      Published by Sue Cook at October 21, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Holidays
                      • Poetry

                      One Small Bite

                      “You will wake soon, my poppet. Then you will learn this dance of the night. But for now, sleep. Dream of beauty, of fangs, and of blood.”
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                      October 20, 2023
                      colorful rooster
                      Published by Jhemar Lagata at October 20, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      The Roosters and the Winchester Family

                      Then the roosters, together, roared like they were the kings of the jungle…
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                      October 19, 2023
                      dandelion
                      Published by Savannah Hernandez at October 19, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      Dandelion Garden

                      I swallow the cotton puff of seeds With my saliva, like rain, they sprout within
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                      October 16, 2023
                      lint background
                      Published by Gene Goldfarb at October 16, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      The Travails of Lint

                      Lint. Sounds like a town in Holland or Belgium, or the site where a great treaty might be signed…
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                      October 8, 2023
                      The Flung Man cover - highway with text
                      Published by Cameron Morse at October 8, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      The Flung Man

                      I can no longer find the abandoned house from whose fence corner terraced above I-70, I watched the flung man
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                      October 7, 2023
                      woman with hands raised
                      Published by Yessie Guitierrez at October 7, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      Happy Now

                      All I could see was troubles, from the suffering and the pain. There was a lot to sustain…So, I started to pray.
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                      October 3, 2023
                      Published by Lynn White at October 3, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      Dr. Green Bows Out

                      She remembered the campaigns against them, back in her day when they were obligatory…
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                      September 30, 2023
                      girl laying on ground
                      Published by Ammanda Selethia Moore at September 30, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      afternoon daydream, 1997

                      the wind blows across my skin, the leaves tickle each other… AUTHOR: Ammanda Selethia Moore
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                      September 28, 2023
                      Little girl holding flowers in a field - Letting Go title cover
                      Published by Laurie Kolp at September 28, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry Reading

                      Letting Go

                      To go back in time, go back to the little girl with a pill bug in her hand. She watches it curl up in a ball as her golden hair tickles warm air...
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                      September 27, 2023
                      ghost lady
                      Published by Janet McCann at September 27, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry

                      Ghosted

                      You are a cold space in my heart, And in this room. You are just an orb, a blip
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