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#loss

LucrețiaAugust 19, 2019

#loss written by: Lucreția Lixandru every smile feels like I'm cutting my skin, my muscular fiber to reach the bones every tear feels like a ...

EnglishPoetry3 min read

My Dizzy Dance

Baidha FercoqAugust 10, 2019

My Dizzy Dance written by: Baidha Fercoq I couldn’t tell you why a flower blooms or yeah, the sun, how exactly does it work? Life, it’s a dizzy ...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

A Hole In My Life

Judge BurdonAugust 7, 2019

A Hole In My Life written by: Judge Burdon There's a hole in my life where all the happiness leaks out Doctors tried to fix it with medication...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Inside

Brad OsborneAugust 2, 2019

Inside written by: Brad Osborne The me I hide The me inside A little boy A broken toy What I exude Shows not the feud Struggles within Remain h...

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I Found Solace

Lewis WamwandaJuly 24, 2019

I Found Solace written by: Lewis Wamwanda @WamzLewis I remember days ago, those doomed days When depression was a reflection of my soul And my eyes...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

Writing Blocks

Raphfael WormgeJuly 17, 2019

Writing Blocks written by: Raphfael Wormge Writing comes easy to some For others they have blocks Falling blocks that take up time Other blocks tha...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

The Afterlife Of The After Party

Amel BashfordJuly 15, 2019

The Afterlife Of The After Party written by: Amel Bashford I write from a hardly healing heart, Of tired cliches that catch in my chest As I vomit f...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Atrocities

Gabriela MJuly 6, 2019

Atrocities written by: Gabriela M @shortprose1 it rains atrocities on fields of love predatory nights, barbed wire walls, the silence of asphyxiate...

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Zazous and The Rats

Nick GerrardJuly 4, 2019

Zazous and The Rats written by: Nick Gerrard The black windowless vans pulled up down the street. I slunk back into the doorway of the cafe, out of ...

EnglishLiterature14 min read

Brace Yourself, Boy

Kerri CaldwellJune 12, 2019

Brace Yourself, Boy written by: Kerri Caldwell @KerriCaldwell19 You’re like winter and the rest of us are summer. You kill the things you lov...

EnglishLiterature3 min read

FIST OF AFFIRMATION

Steven FortuneJune 5, 2019

FIST OF AFFIRMATION written by: Steven Fortune Affirmation is a moving target when the gun is in accommodation's hand Schizophrenic verities e...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Wish You Were Here

Noman ZulfiqarMay 27, 2019

Wish You Were Here written by: Noman Zulfiqar The sky is blue again I can smell the rain I know how to see again Maybe it's not all in vain Time, ...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Into The Breach

SpillwordsMay 26, 2019

Into The Breach a poem by José de Diego O wretched man in pain who falls and cries, whose limbs, exhausted, sicken and grow slack! Leaf out anew—the...

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A Mulberry Spring

Dolonchampa ChakrabortyMay 17, 2019

A Mulberry Spring written by: Dolonchampa Chakraborty A woman's desire to live Is not hers A combined will power of those around her That turns...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

“Hemmingplay,” is the pen name of Doug Stanfield, who grew up on a family farm in western Ohio, went with his parents for two years in Karachi, Pakistan, in high school and had lived, until recently, in Bellefonte, PA with his late wife, Wilda and their two sons, Ben and John. Doug was a writer, editor and director of internet communications at Penn State for 26 years. He has had a few disreputable occupations, including newspaper reporter and editor, and public relations flak, but is trying to make amends for his sins by writing poetry and fiction. When his sons were safely off making their own mistakes, he turned on the computer one day, stared at the screen, and began to learn the craft anew at age 67. Doug has published three books: "Mermaid Sisters: First Dive", a children's book; "I Came From A Place of Fireflies" and, "Snowflakes & Ashes: Meditations on the Temporary”.