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What Burns With Meaning

Linda Imbler·March 26, 2021

What Burns With Meaning written by: Linda Imbler The lace of stars strung like constellations, hangs as...

English Poetry

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As The Forest Burned

Tina McFarlane·February 1, 2021

As The Forest Burned written by: Tina McFarlane Blackened ash of lost dryads choked the air remnants...

English Poetry

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Fahrenheit 451 Revisited

Ricky Hawthorne·December 31, 2020

Fahrenheit 451 Revisited written by: Ricky Hawthorne @searsjames If this year was a book so Bad you’d...

English Poetry

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Sun Bright/Sunburn

Glenn Bresciani·July 17, 2020

Sun Bright/Sunburn written by: Glenn Bresciani I hate sunlight. It burns my face. The lifeforms scurrying over...

English Literature

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Me, poetry written by Kelli J Gavin at Spillwords.com

Me

Kelli J Gavin·July 10, 2020

Me written by: Kelli J Gavin @KelliJGavin Do you really see me? The real me? The one...

English Poetry

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Blue-collar Burn

A. Goddard·May 23, 2020

Blue-collar Burn written by: A. Goddard @AGoddardwriter Shifts are just a time, The people don’t matter. Weekends a...

English Poetry

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Embalm

Madhumita Bhattacharjee Nayyar·January 20, 2020

Embalm written by: Madhumita @madhumita6 will time teach me to embalm embalm myself and preserve preserve for...

English Poetry

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Burnt Christmas

Melisa·December 21, 2019

Burnt Christmas written by: Melisa @MQuigley1963 Tasting soot breathing difficulties house burnt down water bomb bursts through...

12 Days of Christmas Christmas English Featured Post Poetry

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Two Bedrooms Out The Back

Peter Farrar·December 8, 2019

Two Bedrooms Out The Back written by: Peter Farrar It was the smell I noticed. It arrived...

English Featured Post Literature

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When Evil Finds Me

RayFed·November 24, 2019

When Evil Finds Me written by: RayFed @MrRayFed When evil finds me, I’ll hold it close, to...

English Poetry

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Coming Home

Luiz Syphre·October 27, 2019

Coming Home written by: Luiz Syphre @luizsyphre driving up an unpaved street by the cemetery creek with...

English Halloween Poetry

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Watching Candles Burn

Mark Tulin·October 11, 2019

Watching Candles Burn written by: Mark Tulin @Crow_writer I know my mother’s here by her presence in...

English Poetry

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M, part of a poetry collection written by Tony Ortiz at Spillwords.com

M

Tony Ortiz·May 29, 2019

M written by: Tony Ortiz A world where the wind does not blow. There is light, but...

English Poetry

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The Iron Burned

Zoey Xolton·May 13, 2019

The Iron Burned written by: Zoey Xolton @zoeyxolton The Ranger cursed through his teeth as the iron...

English Literature

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Simona is a Romanian-born published author living in UK where she enjoys her profession as a radiographer and writing as her biggest passion. Her first traditional published poetry book, Visările dintre castani (Daydreams among chestnut trees) came out this year (Siono Publishing House in Romania). Her writings are posted online on Spillwords, Webcultura, eCreator and Belgium Time. Being a woman, a daughter, a sister, a mother, an expat, a Transylvanian and a Londoner now, Simona is taking the sight to personal life experience with a social writing touch. She is a member of the World Jam, a worldwide poetry and music community based in Nottingham, where she discovered the joy of performing on stage as a poet. Simona’s most significant writing advocates and supporters are her sons who are pursuing their dreams while completing their PhD courses.

THE END OR A NEW BEGINNING? by Cristina Crucianu

I woke up to my grandmother whispering to me: “It’s over. She’s passed.”

Like an automaton, I got up, and I obliged myself to hand in the project I had been hired for before all the frenzy of organizing a funeral began. A calm sky was lazily waking up as if nothing had happened. In the distance, the roosters’ crows were alerting the villagers that it was time to wake up. The crow, accompanied by the incessant barking of neighbors’ dogs, was the perfect alarm system that even the highest alarm systems could not compete with...

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