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The Harvest Moon

Spillwords·November 24, 2019

The Harvest Moon a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes...

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Frost At Midnight

Spillwords·November 17, 2019

Frost At Midnight a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by...

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The Man He Killed

Spillwords·November 10, 2019

The Man He Killed a poem by: Thomas Hardy “Had he and I but met By some...

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Fast Rode The Knight

Spillwords·November 3, 2019

Fast Rode The Knight a poem by Stephen Crane Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and...

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The Hollow Men

Spillwords·October 27, 2019

The Hollow Men a poem by T.S. Eliot Mistah Kurtz-he dead A penny for the Old Guy...

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I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain

Spillwords·October 20, 2019

I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain a poem by Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in...

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The Castaway

Spillwords·October 13, 2019

The Castaway a poem by William Cowper Obscurest night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When...

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The Definition of Love

Spillwords·October 6, 2019

The Definition of Love a poem by Andrew Marvell My love is of a birth as rare...

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To Autumn

Spillwords·September 29, 2019

To Autumn a poem by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the...

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Sonnet 73

Spillwords·September 22, 2019

Sonnet 73 a poem by William Shakespeare That time of year thou may’st in me behold When...

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Howl

Spillwords·September 15, 2019

Howl a poem by Allen Ginsberg For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation...

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Summer Moods

Spillwords·September 8, 2019

Summer Moods a poem by John Clare I love at eventide to walk alone Down narrow lanes...

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Battle of The Baltic

Spillwords·September 1, 2019

Battle of The Baltic a poem by Thomas Campbell Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious...

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There Will Be Soft Rains, a poem by Sara Teasdale at Spillwords.com

There Will Come Soft Rains

Spillwords·August 25, 2019

There Will Be Soft Rains a poem by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the...

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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