Matters of Fact
...Return to sender
Postmarked-Fragile-Afterlife
guides applause my Soul...
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Categories:
postmarked, appreciation, beautiful, endurance, soulmate,
Form: Haiku
A Love Letter From the Irs
...**
Roses are red, Violets are blue.
A love letter postmarked "Internal Revenue."
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Categories:
postmarked, funny, humorous, roses are
Form: Couplet
Just One of Those Things
...Just One Of Those Things
David J Walker
The boxes of wide mouth Mason Jars
Still stood stacked in the back of the
Garage in neat racks of nothingness
Covered in dust, a slight hint
of rust...
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Categories:
postmarked, allegory, death, mom,
Form: Rhyme
The Letter Finally Arrived
...The letter was tattered, a bit of the corner torn off
It looked like it had been tumbled in a washing machine.
The address was faded,
but the postal worker was determined to deliver it
No telling...
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Categories:
postmarked, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Our Bountiful God
...OUR BOUNTIFUL GOD
Our God is bountiful because…
Eternal generosity never runs out of blessing remedies
They appear when least anticipated
Popping up – leaping out – capturing the unexpected
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Categories:
postmarked, blessing, day, god, heart,
Form: Free verse
Mama's Gun and a Postage Stamp-F
...The postage stamp had now fallen off the envelope but not lost. Tucked away in the box was the stamp that authorized a letter from a mother to her son. Nearby was another stamp with the face of Presi...
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Categories:
postmarked, america, chicago, history, mother,
Form: Narrative
Beyond the Breakers
...Beyond the rugged linoleum sheen
of stamped moribund improprieties
where life is nothing but a deep-sixed scene
lost in the postmarked cliffs of postcard seas;
Beyond the frozen wake of guilty ...
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Categories:
postmarked, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Message For the Oyster
...The world is my Oyster!
I love you my darling Oyster,
Postmarked under the sea,
If you make me rich my dear,
You can marry me!
I'll collect all your precious pearls,
Then travel around the wo...
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Categories:
postmarked, poems,
Form: Rhyme
What Attitude These Journals Have Today
...Our reading fee is steep; before you pay,
find out what it is we want you to say.
Open to submissions of any form,
so long as it’s contemporary norm.
We place no limit on the length you send,
but b...
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Categories:
postmarked, on writing and words,
Form: Couplet
Postcard From Hell
...I prayed to God hoping he’d send me a distraction.
Then I just stood around, and well, nothin’ happened.
So I said, “This just proves you don’t really exist,
and it leaves no excuse not to take the ...
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Categories:
postmarked, introspection, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Writing Letters Is a Dying Art
...Dear Sir:
I realize you’ve been busy, so I’m sending a letter of distress
Postmarked today, addressing my quality of living
Since the last time we told our life stories
Sewed the seams between o...
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Categories:
postmarked, love, on writing and
Form: Free verse