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Position Needed, a poem for peace

Position Needed, a poem for peace

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New poem by Walt Whitman

New poem by that upstart poet, Walt Whitman: “To Bryant, the Poet of Nature” http://bit.ly/1tMSBPX     

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Secret Colors, 1830—a poem for Amity

Secret Colors, 1830

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Rondeau At The Train Stop By Erin Belieu

Rondeau At The Train Stop It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay drifting toward me on the T stop, the train circling the city like a dingy, year-round Christmas display. The Puritans were right!...

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If Real Hate Lives, a poem of love

If Real Hate Lives I no longer bank my fire, but pitch hot flame at the door of the cage I’ve locked into myself. Can I save saving itself? Or its heat? Since keyholes won’t swallow hate, I must...

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Once Balanced, a poem on its edge

Once Balanced What favor of gravity holds me down among six billion dizzy people? Mother says I never fell down as a baby: the careful teeter was my toddler step. So does evil live in my ear’s cochlea...

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Hostage, a poem held for ransom

Hostage Which imaginary enemy chases your good sense south when fear pushes from the north? Why does your hideout need to steal the identity of my home? Did something break the heart of your most...

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Quizzical Gal, a poem of female enlightenment

Quizzical Gal After she tamed her tiger, she gave her name away and kissed a lover goodbye. She walked from Tibet to Sri Lanka to teach awareness of breath, and freedom from want. She gave up dal...

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Waves, a poem within the undertow

Waves I throw my eyes into a wave, whisper to it with a stretch of skin to tease the surf slang reply I need. Fingers search for straight strokes, but legs merge with mermaid tales to mix wave suds...

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Ex Atticus Finch, No Deus, a poem without pity

Ex Atticus Finch, No Deus A god in a machine, like Atticus Finch, lives between chance and the law of karma as does my coffeehouse server and me, but no professors rave about our perfections— no...

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Standards of Uncertainty, a Hestian poem

Standards of Uncertainty Please don’t love who I say I am, nor parts of me I enjoy the most— but love the parts of me that last, the progressions which save me. No less than oxygen’s air, no less than...

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Requiem for Guitar, a poem to rescue

Requiem for Guitar  I pluck her from a bin in an alley where she waits for ex-con garbage men to escort her carcass to a landfill covered by seagulls, none of whom can play drop-D bottleneck style....

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Love’s Curse, a barbed poem

Love‘s Curse If God is love, you‘re hate to my eyes when I see you kiss another man. Who tastes my love as deep? If love hugs pain too often, it kills all the sanity in a heart. I refuse to be a blind...

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We, The Bodies Of The People: a poem in the flesh

We, The Bodies Of The People—                     Nosotros, Los Cuerpos De La Gente Fascist War Lords of 2015—now hear this: Power is weak. Rich is poor. Greed is evil. Babies die in the noxious pus of...

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Home Views, poem from a redwood

Home Views   I once climbed redwood trees to read. My mother played Bach on cello, but it didn’t interest me. I had four siblings but they bored me sleepy. I had a house on a hill overlooking a...

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Amanda, poet

Amanda, poet"I am Pete Rose, dying with the hopelessly screwed, scorning giantswhose plans date back before saviors . . . ." —This from is a mash-up of a blogpost, lyrics from several musicians, and...

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Four poems from Charles Simic: “The Future” & Other Poems

Four poems from Charles Simic: “The Future” & Other Poems.

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Emily Dickinson, Virgin Recluse—Not

Emily Dickinson, Virgin Recluse—Not

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Position Needed, a poem for peace

Position Needed, a poem for peace

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New poem by Walt Whitman

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