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Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Prompt: When Great Trees Fall
David S.
Aug 29, 2021
Earth Song Cento
Earth Song Cento
Tanya E. Denhere
Aug 30, 2021
Emeralds
Emeralds
Dead Poets Live Prompt: American Haiku
Anna Rozwadowska
Jun 1, 2020
The Soul’s Way
The Soul’s Way
My Irish poetic stream of consciousness
Sylvia Wohlfarth
Feb 22, 2020
Valse Triste
Valse Triste
a verse translation, and Song on the End of the World
Joe Váradi
Oct 2, 2020
Moon Woman & Moth
Moon Woman & Moth
Song on the end of the world
David S.
Sep 28, 2020
Ode to Candles
Ode to Candles
Inspired by the prompt: Ode to Common Things
Veronika Georgieva
Sep 12, 2020
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Knight (Ritter)
Knight (Ritter)
Translation of Rilke
David S.
Aug 12
Partake as doth the Bee
Partake as doth the Bee
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Aug 10
When I Hoped I Feared
When I Hoped I Feared
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Aug 3
You Tell Me I Shouldn’t Write
You Tell Me I Shouldn’t Write
a verse translation
Joe Váradi
Aug 2
Adrift on Oneself
Adrift on Oneself
Everything important is beneath from icebergs to trees to foundations of houses — a lair for Grizzly Pluto & Hades, submarines & sickle…
Simon Heathcote
Aug 2
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Jul 27
A Bliss Like Murder
A Bliss Like Murder
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Jun 30
Childhood Home — A pantoum
Childhood Home — A pantoum
Where is the house I spent my childhood in? Its spruce garden shadowed Antiquity. There, stood the Walnut above a stone bench, Where I sat…
Chrysalis-art
Jun 23
Three Weeks in Crete
Three Weeks in Crete
The sea is my meditation — its sounds caught me in my own rhythms & returned me to the void, unharmed. Once again, I am everything I once…
Simon Heathcote
Jun 23
Mother lost — A sonnet
They say: “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”. Maniac Argan, would never drink from fountains. “Can’t step outside in summer”, he…
Chrysalis-art
Jun 22
We don’t cry — Tim and I
We don’t cry — Tim and I
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Jun 21
Why do I Love?
Why do I Love?
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Jun 14
Marianne Moore, 1924
Marianne Moore, 1924
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence”
David S.
Jun 14
I’m Nobody!
I’m Nobody!
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
Jun 7
Ghosts Don’t Hang Out in Graveyards
Ghosts Don’t Hang Out in Graveyards
Ghosts don’t hang out in graveyards that isn’t where they last where memories hit them hard where ties to life hold fast
Abigail Siegel
May 30
Buccaneers of Buzz
Buccaneers of Buzz
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
May 24
Litmus Test of Love
Litmus Test of Love
It is rarely deliberate, but each one tests the other in the litmus test of love
Simon Heathcote
May 20
The Universe is Yours
The Universe is Yours
Wednesday Wisdom of Emily Dickinson
David S.
May 18
The Woman Within
The Woman Within
Translation of La Femme Intérieure by Georges Henein by David S.
David S.
May 17
This Cleaving of Humanity
This Cleaving of Humanity
Not all the elegies have been sung there is no way of telling how many before we are done as consciousness cleaves loved one from loved…
Simon Heathcote
May 15
Until the House is Built
Until the House is Built
Wednesday Wisdom with Emily Dickinson
David S.
May 10
Coming Dawn
Coming Dawn
Chiaroscuro (Dark to Light)
Dana Sanford
May 10
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