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Poetry

Melancholy 1 min

A Bit of a Do

Mike Hickman

She calls it a "do."
She had, she says, a bit of a "do."
And in that short word,
Accompanied with ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience

From Sailors' Bones

Cameron Quinn

We build our homes
From sailors' bones
A crown conch amplifies their screams
From grooves ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

Dorothy's Poem

Lorraine Schein

The gray field of the rain had risen.
She slept on the worn patchwork quilt
of the sky.

When ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

iPhone

Ann Garrett

Phone on
Enter passcode:
****
Phone (app)
Favorites
Swish
Edi
Scroll down
Done ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

The Heron

Steve Denehan

I look out the car window
across night fields

squinting; I can see
lives I never lived ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary Romance Nature 1 min Mature Audience

Man on a Mission

Jenny Moore

"I may be some time," he said,
easing on his fleece-lined boots.
We laughed and clinked ou ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Romance 1 min

Waterfall

Brian Weston

Like a waterfall
Flowing over the aged jagged rocks
It has formed over the years.
The rusty ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience

On a Sunday Afternoon

Elinor Clark

I muse my bed
deep think to the ceiling

I hungry the biscuit tin
lazy the sofa
watch an ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience

Flames

Paula Kirman

I would stand as a child and watch my mother light candles on Friday nights.
She would close he ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

merely players

Davian Aw

if you concentrate
hard enough, sometimes
the fourth wall breaks—
fading just a moment
to ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Romance Nature 1 min Mature Audience

Glacier

Leah Mueller

I know we've arrived home
by the pine scent, and you
almost smile as we climb
from the ca ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

School

Mary Tabor

Remember promise
in giant red doors
you saw
while your knees shook
at the edge of the ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Tropic of Cancer

Clint Margrave

One day, long after they were gone,
cleaning out a cabinet in my grandparents' house,
buried ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

After

Despy Boutris

This morning, before sunrise, I walked
along the road, passing

all the boarded-up buildings ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary Romance Nature 1 min Mature Audience

First Love

Despy Boutris

We head toward the peach orchard,
the one we found midsummer
at the edge of town, past the ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary Nature 1 min

Hope Against Hope

Howie Good

I have seen this movie before,
I know how it ends, with troops in the streets,
and the charred ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

From a High Perch, Waiting

Deborah L. Davitt

He climbed a telephone pole first;
next, a cell phone tower,
because he'd heard of ancient ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min

D.I.V.O.R.C.E

Mark J. Mitchell

He lost his second wife in Buffalo.
She hid behind his books and slipped away
on their due date ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy 1 min

Flipside

Hannah Rousselot

If you find my sorrow
keep it. It has been too long

festering and coagulating
and ... [+]

Poetry

Melancholy Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience

Eclipse

Daniel Mark Patterson

I often cling too longingly
during hugs,
hold that hand one awkward
(beat)
too ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A Bit of a Do

From Sailors' Bones

Dorothy's Poem

iPhone

The Heron

Man on a Mission

Waterfall

On a Sunday Afternoon

Flames

merely players

Glacier

School

Tropic of Cancer

After

First Love

Hope Against Hope

From a High Perch, Waiting

D.I.V.O.R.C.E

Flipside

Eclipse