Don’t leave the dandelion growing through concrete the broken windows birthing stars the puddles magicking their rainbows the new skin smiling under scars the tags shouting loud in the underp…
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Susan Jane Sims
Cross It seems the outs want in; that they thought a vote to leave would have no impact. They thought they’d pencil in a cross and still remain. That someone else would protect their status…
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Mirrored Voices (Best Modern Poets #4)
by Paul Morabito (Goodreads Author), Lois Marie Harrod, Jenna Cornell(Goodreads Author), Mark Green (Goodreads Author), Irum Zahra (Goodreads Author), Joan Colby (Goodreads Author), Laura Madeline Wiseman(Goodreads Author), Regina Puckett (Goodreads Author) , more…
This combined poetic anthology embraces free thinking of the untapped mind and spirit. The vast array of best modern poets from around the globe share their voices together in harmony. Various styles and thoughts flourish amongst the pages, bringing emotions to life and creating beauty from nothingness. The writers included in this collection have been selectively chosen to represent the best modern talent of the age. The list of extraordinary poets featured within include such great talent as Paul Morabito, Lois Marie Harrod, Jenna Cornell, Mark Green, Irum Zahra, Joan Colby, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Regina Puckett, Clarissa Simmens, Laura A. Lord, Regis McCafferty, Roberto Carlos Martinez, Linda Dobinson, Carolyn O’Connell, Ben Ditmars, Dr. Leesa Abbott, Andrea McKenzie Raine, Koyel Mitra, Terri Cannon, Laura Da’, Mary Bone, Aftab Yusuf Shaikh, William Greenway, Edward Brookner, Ray Whitaker, Nikitha Hingad, Anahit Arustamyan and Arthur Turfa. (less)
Paperback, 246 pages
Published May 24th 2016 by Star Investment Strategies LLC.
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Sheila-Na-Gig online publishes well-crafted free verse poetry. We especially seek poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Please submit 3-5 previously unpublished poems as …
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Second Cease Fire
Opening the Iron Gate my feet trace a path round silent ponds, through black stands of blasted trees rumbling from the smoke of winter’s war flinging out naked branches tipped by the solstice sun. …
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St. Thomas Aquinas — Ham
It overlooks the village pond where cattle once drank deep, rising white it calls to prayer beneath a bell that summoned; called children to the school. Our feet trace theirs through lanes; up the …
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The Fat Damsel
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New Poem Published
Dousing Steel’s Flames by Carolyn O’Connell
Flames that lit the skies over towns
for years – the beacons viewed from
railroads, ships motorways are due
to dim, snuffed out by edict from
unskilled, unaware hands,
flames that mark towns where
bright steel sings its song of skill
in oratorios with notes fine as cutlery,
deep as the Shard’s supporting girders
sweet as the tracks the train I recall.
It built the planes, tanks, ships that
kept us safe from enemies’; icons
of our past whose children still protect
us from unknown terrors still,
and hide within structures speeding light.
Now these towns and men who know
no other way of life will dim as the flames
are damped, the men close the last gate,
and we are left to feed on fickle money
guard our shores with cypher gilts
and handshakes while others laugh
as we build, sell at their decree
at the folly of the dying flames,
men who sold our skills for fame
cyber gilts and Starbucks.
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