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Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back

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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...

Dog Chases Tail

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Written August 13, 2025, for a contest by Edward Ibeh

Quote: The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup. Listen to the ...

Trapped Breath

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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney

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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,  
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.  
The...

Ductile Grace

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Written: July 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann 
Quote: "Be still, for the silence of God is the language of the soul." by Rumi
  
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Recital

...Recital / free verse / Pride

Expectation rushes in
As her silent walk begins
All eyes staring
Watching for a hint of emotion
But none revealed
As she takes her place among the muses

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Bone Meals

...Bones remain, retain, and nourish
the under-croft, the terrain,
the meadow green.
Bones replant. They are meals for
the mouths of ghosts.

The dead feed the living,
and the living cut down the...

Citadel of Censorship

...The noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the...

Assault On An Ascent

...Somewhere in our misused-contrused essential self lives a malignant cogent cabaret of simul castrated away ills stranded contrivances depleted of furtive 
psychosocial datatrums that copiously under...

Pabulum of Nature

...Pabulum Of Nature

Let thy countenance befallen upon thee, thy cornfields threshold be thine golden horde, that thou flash amidst thine rows thy thread of sunlight, and th...

Pabulum

...Abstracted eyes study plasmid menus.
A rattle of gleams
stirs coffee in a Montmartre café.
A Cairo belly dancer glistens
in her cocoon of sequined waves,
wine glasses tinkle, while eyes speak.
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Logagraphia

...Some perhaps more fortunate poets will 
With greater ease urge their heeding quill,
To tell in switching tones many juicy tales,
Of love-aided treks and shipwrecked sails. 

Not so for this goof...

Recital

...Expectation rushes in
as her silent walk begins
All eyes staring,
watching for a hint of emotion,
but none revealed
as she takes her place among the muses

No one breathes as her studious eyes...

Cling

...Decadent mirth no more
Lies therein
Far off calls
I do sing
The pabulum so requisite
To this epiphany
I do cling
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Toothless Dragons

...Toothless Dragons


And so the toothless dragons roar
tepid flames of apathy staining the air
regurgitated realities revisited
picked at in search of sustenance.

Circling, they do the hating...

The Forest Calls

...THE FOREST CALLS 

The pink clouds surround the setting sun
The black earth won't give up her secrets 
When all things are said and done
She holds her memory the most infrequent 
Paltry mists o...

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