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when the colonial red shutters slammed hard the siding beyond the trellis swollen with fat to bursting grapes and past the ancient oak [scarred by lightning] and woodpeckers the vegetable garden, ripe… more →
Truth is Freedom
Oh celery
James Steerforth wrote 4 weeks ago: Unforgettable — classmates translating “Apogeo del apio” Those imaginary stalks! Unforgotten in thir … more →
number 9
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pieceofpie wrote 2 months ago: totally optional prompts: slowly he turned… photo: nine, rulecam, flickr checking his watch it … more →
Of Love and Laundry
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thisgirlremembers wrote 2 months ago: So very many things In this fractured world connive To come between us, love. It’s hard to keep the … more →
Vulnerability
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forgetmenot63 wrote 3 months ago: Adornment of gold and silk could not hide her heart’s nudity. Totally Optional Prompts: From Here to … more →
heaped high
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pieceofpie wrote 3 months ago: totally optional prompts: death and shoes photo: shoes, Sirkullay, flickr a million souls stacked no … more →
gemini lecter
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 5 months ago: 2 in the morning the bedroom phone rings. The voice at the other end says “Hi, It … more →
long night, short candle
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pieceofpie wrote 6 months ago: totally optional prompts this week: tardiness read write word no 16 blank bloodless barren page sile … more →
autumn wind
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 6 months ago: Tenderly ever so gingerly, when your fingertips, like slender stalks, broken, of white lilacs … more →
a pint of minted lime
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 6 months ago: Pine and a pint of minted lime, juggled with sweetened milk in the cool air – shivers of s … more →
Only A Geek Could Have Written "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Claudia wrote 7 months ago: “Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.” - Zora Neale … more →
no man's beat
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 7 months ago: Welcome to hell a cursed vocation in a messed up world, devoted to the vomit of humanity. To … more →
observation
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pieceofpie wrote 7 months ago: totally optional prompts: photo poems, this week, find an interesting photograph that has meaning fo … more →
NaPoWriMo#9
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watermaid wrote 7 months ago: Today’s poem is a meditation on a letter, a prompt supplied by Linda Jacobs at the Totally Opt … more →
fear
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 7 months ago: Times alone with you grow scarce, become special as they are few. Spoken words no more – tongue- … more →
"Changing Seasons"
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Claudia wrote 8 months ago: Now the steely gaze of a Female Cop, (too tough to love) will begin to soften and linger a moment lo … more →
Samuel's Advent
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benjaminchew110478 wrote 8 months ago: Minutes ticked by as the evening slips into the glooms of the night. The nurses drone about in t … more →
sweeten soothe
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pieceofpie wrote 9 months ago: Read Write Word #9; and totally optional prompts: repetition, poetry form. attempted the tritina, wh … more →
It's a mystery
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watermaid wrote 9 months ago: The Mystery of Life A mystery surrounds creation. The science of evolution can now describe diversit … more →
A look around, departure & let loose poem
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James Steerforth wrote 9 months ago: Dedicated to my heroes* So what do my eyes land on as I lift them off the screen & let them wand … more →
