Crawling Inside Myself … Again
In There ? image by DBSandman Crawling inside myself again I never know if I will come out the end It’s such a tangled cobweb Dusty place deep down inside my mind I never know if I’ll come out the...
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By our Guest Poet: Sam Manty Did I dream you last night or was it you that led me to the room next door smoky and dense thick tongue rich red filled my mouth hot and moist we fell into each other...
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By our Guest Poet Matloob Bokhari The hordes of beasts loitering in ignorance Made a deal with devil for their sinful sway Next, entered into a city of crown of culture Acquired worldly wealth, secured...
View ArticleInvictus
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under...
View ArticleCAVES,WAR,AND PEOPLE
David Silverman/Getty Images(Thanks to Glenn Gray, WWII) By Shepherd Bliss “At ease” the young lieutenant barks at our rifles squad, tired from a long march. We are outside Da Nang. “You, solider,” he...
View ArticleThe Shores of Styx And The Gloom Of Stygian
A baby cries from The shores of Styx A child cries from the darkness. Of a ghetto A baby cries And a child cries And a mother cries As a father dies A war starts Job ends House is lost Another father...
View ArticleChristmas, Version 2012
Its Christmas time in the city, as the old song goes, and something about shoppers rushing home with their treasures, oh the retailers, all a flutter with anticipatory excitement. All a glow with...
View ArticleSomething About Nothing By, ?
They taught me in school To write about What I knew about And when I learned I knew nothing About anything That is precisely what I wrote about And suddenly everyone thought I knew something about...
View ArticleThe Door
Somewhere The rising moon the setting moon The rising sun The setting sun The rhythm of forever The moon again the sun again Over again and forever There is I scream there is no forever Not pray Not...
View ArticleThe Writer
He wrote and wrote He cried and tried He wrote he wrote And hurt inside He wrote and wrote And tried to say Locked in feelings In the way Dreaded fears Locked deep At times haunting Fleeting sleep...
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