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Heartstrings and Happenings by Betty Dodge
epub |eng | | Author:Betty Dodge

REMORSE AND SORROW The really beautiful time of life should be old age; when storms of passions have been subdued, and the thunders of protest have died down. The calm ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Say It Again 1,500 Times by Margaret Swensen
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Swensen

To love and honor are okay And one might promise to obey. But what makes wives turn slowly gray Is what to cook each blessed day! Love at first sight ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
My Timbrel and Dance by Keena C. Rimson
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Keena C. Rimson [Rimson, Keena C.]

Well I like to dance too Only mine is to a different rhythm And a more slowful beat My song never ends And the longer it’s in me the longer ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Dorianne Laux

Matinee Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing in the crease of my palm, the marquee three streets up, the blue neon letters washed out to the same color as ...
( Category: Women Authors December 18,2022 )
Fugitive Horizons by Henry Beissel
epub |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Henry Beissel [Beissel, Henry]

My Heart This Solo Where did my heart pick up that low measured beat? It drums me through a jungle of so many lives, all different, all possible, then calls ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Castelforte by Enzo Malagisi
epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:Enzo Malagisi [Malagisi, Enzo]

Having paid the price and covered the cost purchasing us back from death at the cross Christ broke the curse and killed the ego and thus is why he became ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
The Gospel of Barbecue by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
epub |eng | | Author:Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Memphis Resurrection Who died and made you Elvis? —Bumper sticker The big rock by my door is a plaster prop, after all. I’m back to hear screams for what I ...
( Category: United States December 18,2022 )
Sometimes a Great Notion by David Donnell
epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:David Donnell [Donnell, David]

anyway, Lord, these 2 guys, come downtown looking for a late spot to have a drink for coffee, for action, for colourful talk, maybe Queen Street West some little bar ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku December 18,2022 )
Designated Mourner by Catherine Owen
epub |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Catherine Owen

BETWEEN HITS, THIS LIGHT Everything’s going to be different you exclaimed frequently in the weeks before you died and, in my Valentine’s Day card, wrote exuberantly — to a new ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Margaret and Midnight by Valerie Boever
epub |eng | | Author:Valerie Boever

Selecting a proper name for the puppy was Margaret’s first step in caring for her new friend. A friend is how she thought of the puppy instantly. It was even ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Things That Fall by Denise Desautels
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Denise Desautels [Desautels, Denise]

Suddenly their Medusa gaze This evening, you’re not lending me your hand; you stay at a distance, untouchable corpse, perched atop your patch of false sky. Up above, as they ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Remembering Maya by Jitendra Rathod
epub |eng | | Author:Jitendra Rathod

The builder filed a case in court, obviously with the backing of Mr. Khosla, who had been wounded by Maya's scathing remarks. We were served a notice. The first hearing ...
( Category: Poetry December 18,2022 )
Hymns Qualms by Peter Cole
epub |eng | 2019-05-04 | Author:Peter Cole

( Category: United States December 17,2022 )
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
epub |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Bao Phi

What if this is the best we can be? When we realize phrases like “Be who you were meant to be” make no sense at all. Look into a burnt-out ...
( Category: Asian American December 17,2022 )
Vulnerable AF by Tarriona "Tank" Ball
epub |eng | 2021-05-25 | Author:Tarriona "Tank" Ball

“You” Stuff You are smelly hair That I play in way too much You are little lips That I crave more than I should You are fingers everywhere but the ...
( Category: Black & African American December 17,2022 )

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