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Community News

Congratulations to Hooded Stranger and Xena465

We have recently made several new positions on the site.

Please join me in welcoming them:

Assistant Director, Newsletter: Hooded Stranger / Dan 

 Assistant Director, Guide Program: Xena465 / Rosina 

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Curated Blog

Writing on Writing: One Step at a Time

 Some more ideas to help you get started with revising/critique:

Start small.

If you usually write five poems a week, try to write four poems a week and revise one from a previous week.

If all you do is read over the poem one more time and consider some possible changes, that’s a start.

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Special: 
Curated

Spotlight

They Call You Mary

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         They Call You Mary

     They call you Mary
        to me you’re just Mom

     I just left your side
        left you at your “home”

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Frailty

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Darkness sometimes shudders
on the broken edges of my loneliness,
beaten back by you, by us,
from the empty shoreline of the island
that I used to be, never farther than
the next time I am gone from you.

In our garden hot in beating August sun,
hands in black soil, daylilies and black-eyed susans,
purple coneflowers all seeding,

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Poetry Stream

A live stream of raw poetry, dancing before your eyes. Or sometimes sulking.

Eclipse

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Once there was
a tremendous shadow,
thrown by a flaming meteor
against a foreign planet.

It rose and fell with the mountain-peaks,
tumbled across the cornfields,
swam over the oceans,
all to get to you.

And just before it hit–
you looked away.

They said so,,MY MASTER'S PIECE

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My Masters PIECE…. your smile

If upon a face

I can bring a smile

I have lived a life

worth its while

LOVED

MAY READ AT YOUR DISCRETION

You all enamour me
and
blood flows
from within me,
my veins…

No stabs of conscience

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No stabs of conscience
as memory, understanding and will
all work in constructive harmony;

yet the spirit’s sad gaze
looks out from the window of it’s heart
at the transcience of passing flotillas
of sleep-invoking clouds.

SUPREME IRONY (Part 1)

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will post PART 1 and II back to back next time!

 

THE WOUNDED WARRIOR

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back to the battle field for now!

Collapsing Lungs

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What do they see?

Their darkest hearts

True misery

Don’t believe in angels

Nothing is meant to be

Collapsing lungs

Drink in the sea

They look for heaven

What do they find?

Only darkness

No greater love

Their lonely holes

Just can’t be filled

Sometimes n

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