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canvas on a warping frame
. Romantic / Free Verse / Life

canvas on a warping frame

I didn’t know oil could crack. But new fissures open in sunflowers, gladiolas, the black and grey of the background. You smeared a soft white in the vase. It shines …

 aging / character / growth / love / Rebecca Kerr
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A Cosmos of Darkness and Light
. Philosophical / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

A Cosmos of Darkness and Light

There once was a boy who could dream a lost world and manage to reach it at times; his mind was a plaything, it swanned and it swirled in realms …

 Charlie Rankin / cosmos / darkness / dreams / light / memories
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pre-Exodus From Skin
. Contemplative / Death / Metrical

pre-Exodus From Skin

Oh, how a young man’s thoughts still reign in tired bones and soul of dust. Will you remain thru silver years? Until my breath has passed beyond this dimming light, …

 dying / Randy Faria / transition / youth
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Fireflies
.Observant / Free Verse / Life

Fireflies

There are those who live like dark corner dwellers, night sky sojourners watching the others, wishing to join them knowing they can’t, these scared little bugs, glimpsing the world over …

 metaphor / Ron Bennett / society
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The Truth About Atlantis
. Pensive / Free Verse / Loss

The Truth About Atlantis

If only sadness were a storm; an angry rush of torrential downpour to leave me breathless; a Poseidonic fury to wreck me asunder, but, sadness is a gentle wave lapping …

 sadness / storm / Zoe MacMillan
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