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redbrick posted a new Poem titled translation from Farsi 20 weeks ago
  Beyond unbelief, beyond belief, there lies an open desert.   In the heart of that vastness our longing hangs, a yearning without...
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Pungus posted a new Prose titled Zzzwip! 20 weeks ago
  Blue cardinal swoops down, literally my first actual sighting, cawing loud from the treetops, beckoning flock, to begin this winter’s...
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled 17-words 20 weeks ago
    Seventeen Words Autumn leaves scatter, a bearded man bends to paper, midnight train departs, dreams dissolve, winter silence...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled He Said, "I, Too" 20 weeks ago
He said, "I, too, am young at heart." We laughed at that, because he was an old fart: not, perhaps, that much of a thinker, but shrewd and j...
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justshan1983 posted a new Poem titled Truth 20 weeks ago
Like Alice and the Caterpillar We circle one another — curious, cautious, Each trying to glimpse the other’s truth, While neither is certain...
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled even the sparks are gone 20 weeks ago
your warmth is all that remains  of a supernova  now lightyears ago
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST POEMS: The Supreme Courtesy Of My Saviour, King and God Most High . . . Who Loves Even Me 20 weeks ago
In July. 1974, He called my name, inviting me to step outside and look upon His stars. Nineteen years and some months later, He called...
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Teytonon posted a new Poem titled So you want to write a romance novel 20 weeks ago
Should you care to write a novel historically romantic Choose the setting, perhaps a castle across the Atlantic? Two tortured souls, will he...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST ORTHODOX POEMS: θυσίαν αἴνεσις The Bright And Morning Star, Two Local Astronomical Coordinates 20 weeks ago
The Bright and Morning Star inhabited the Virgin's womb; and, thirty-three years later was laid, dead, in a borrowed tomb. He lingered in ne...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST ORTHODOX POEMS: θυσίαν αἴνεσις The Levels 20 weeks ago
Christ Jesus of Nazareth, our King and God, the Most High became the most low when suspended on the Romans' cross.  He died the death t...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Summer Afternoons That Year [XLIX] 20 weeks ago
During that summer's excessive heat, he wore distressed but baggy jeans, shirtless and barefoot. His nearly waist-length dreads cascaded dow...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Seducing Tommy, Summer, 1973 [XLIX] 20 weeks ago
Clad in a polo shirt and gray straight-leg jeans, he removed Converse sneakers from his bare feet. Fragrance filled the room as I caressed t...
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled a narrative of provocation 20 weeks ago
    A Narrative of Provocation The poet walks into the square, not to soothe but to stir— his words are stones in the fountain,...
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Leadings Toward Stars; King Solomon's Clever And Protective Ruse [Repost] 20 weeks ago
. . .  the honor of kings is to search out a matter. ---Proverbs 25:2 Haters and prudes will try to impose shame upon my father's firs...
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled bardic provocation in four turns 20 weeks ago
  a provocation in four turns poet, not prophet, nor a comforter— just the grit lodged between your teeth when you try to speak....
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