February 8, 2021
by Joel Kravitz

Especially with regard to politics today
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November 21, 2019
by Jem Croucher
Here in this silence
With the quiet patter of gentle rain
the small hours while
and my pen scratches
Slumber beckons but temporarily eludes
So I with quiet resolve
capture the mood with words
flowing as the night deepens
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December 2, 2018
by HemmingPlay
A writer of modest talent can only hope one day to put together a word or two—on on a rare week, a phrase—that’s worth keeping. This is not the conceit of perfectionism. This is just the reality of a mediocre vision that cannot totally grasp and share what floats in and out of view. It’s the frustration that has to be managed—The gap between what might be glimpsed, a brief impression of something sublime, and the skill that, were it a painting, only produces stick figure drawings.
So the experience is one of enduring a sense of constant failure, working to press my cheek up against the foggy glass that keeps me from the truth, but still trying to catch a scent of it and convey it honestly….Throwing the lariat a thousand times at a stallion that prances just out of reach, hoping that one more throw will tame the beast and bring him nearer to feel the heat and the true wild life of him.
That’s the job. (Neurotic? Of course it is. But what’s a little neurosis among friends?). It’s just a matter of putting up with failure long enough to feel the hot breath of something beautiful. It is insanity. But oh, so seductive.
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June 3, 2018
by Alanna
Put your handprint on the universe
Run through the cosmos
Hopping from asteroid to asteroid
Leaving your mark
Write your poems &
Draw your pictures on planets
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May 20, 2018
by John S
My words disappeared under the moonlight,
The sounds of dissipation fading fast
to quiet in a cavernous depiction,
a blank homage to the universal past.
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April 24, 2018
by Jem Croucher

I’m dancing. I’m rhythm
I’m words on a page
I’m pen and I’m words
from a poet and sage
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January 27, 2018
by Alanna

“You could sell those”
a familiar phrase
then watch my passion
turn to drudgery
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January 27, 2018
by Jem Croucher

And now at last it’s quiet
Just the ticking of the clock
and the humming of the fridge
Little here for me to knock
So before I climb the stairs
and get the rest my body needs
My pen must get to paper
as some inspiration pleads
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January 21, 2018
by Jem Croucher

Amongst the towering walls of glass
the concrete and the steel
a sculpture hanging in the trees
is calming and genteel
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December 19, 2017
by Alanna
THERE IS NO MAGIC
I just said
YES
Wild hairs sprouted
I chose to tend them
Now I have flowers.
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November 27, 2017
by Alanna

When my hands touch clay
I lose myself
Deep in the soft, smooth sensation of mud
Sliding between my fingers
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July 20, 2017
by Alanna
I was on my way to my studio
When dust bunnies began biting my ankles
Mold in the bathroom started to whine
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April 19, 2017
by braveandrecklessblog
I live in a state
Of brilliant madness
I teeter on the apex
Of a jagged mountain
Balanced atop a skateboard
Precarious
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June 21, 2016
by LuAnne Holder

They say it’s a solid but snowflakes melt in our hands
They say it’s abstract but hope embodies a face we can see
If gravity is really an immutable law, then how do ideas
rain up toward creative connections?
Let’s not be too clever to never unlearn
knowledge currently grounded as fact.
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April 3, 2016
by Jem Croucher

Spent an afternoon at Charleston
Bloomsbury evidential there
with paintings on the furniture
and wonder everywhere
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March 20, 2016
by Colly
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February 17, 2016
by russtowne
Muses can often be
The most horrible teases
Before finally sharing
Something that pleases!
–Russ Towne
© Copyright 2016 Russ Towne
All Rights Reserved
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January 29, 2016
by Jem Croucher
I like writing poems
I write one every day
‘Cos there’s lots in life to write about
and it’s nice to have a say
I’ll write about the sunshine
and I’ll write about the sea
I’ll write about ‘most anything
and sometimes simply me
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January 9, 2016
by Jem Croucher

As a candle burned into the night
the poet played a game
Chasing words that tried to hide
behind the flickering flame
But however hard the poet tried
he could not catch but one
The words were quick to disappear
as they were having fun
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December 6, 2015
by Jem Croucher
Puddle-like upon the page
my words would not conform
But when I mixed them up a bit
they started to take form
I jumped in there and made a splash
the words went everywhere
then puddle-like they came right back
and gave me form to share
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November 21, 2015
by Jem Croucher
Though similar paths each day I tread
there is always inspiration
in the things I see around me
to encourage recitation
But in case of memory lapses
my little notebook always carried
allows me to capture what I see
so that sights to words are married
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August 31, 2015
by Jem Croucher
I have a pocket of sunshine
to soak up the last rays
As they leave my garden
at the end of fine days
And in the chair I have here
I’ll sit quietly and write
With the joys of my garden
Close by in plain sight
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August 9, 2015
by dokurtybitz

Blue over red,
Natural way it should be,
Sky over fire
Reflected down
To the table.
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July 12, 2015
by Jem Croucher

A poet’s life is never dull
for there is always stuff around
to capture inspiration
and write a few words down
It might be quite innocuous
that others rarely see
But captured in some lines of verse
Provides a remedy
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July 10, 2015
by Jem Croucher

Wind is up and cooling
But it’s lovely in the sun
as I sit here on the wall and write
now my day is done
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June 24, 2015
by Jem Croucher
Yesterday as I waited
in a hotel’s busy lobby
writing a new poem which
’til now has been a hobby
A thought occurred and took good form
as a proactive pre-condition
to publish a collection
as has long been my ambition
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June 14, 2015
by Venkat
Look at these jelly fish
Pumping in my head
Look at the splattered wish
Spilling off this bread
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June 4, 2015
by Morgan

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