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First Steps Funerals and Nanas Hands

...First Steps Funerals and Nana's Hands 

By Evelyn Aimarie

2 days after my Nana's funeral
My oldest son took his first steps. 
She was my grandmother on my father's side, but more like a mother...
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Categories: textured, grandmother, love,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberLubricant- MJF

...I feel it smoothly, gliding freely,
Liquid fluidity surging.
Not a fraction of too much friction,
An undulating path followed effortlessly.
Movement and balance allowing continuous flow.
A sense...
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Categories: textured, motivation,
Form: Ekphrasis



danica

...Hey Danica,
I don’t know why I’m addressing you like this
as if these words are meant to be opened by your hands
though they’re more like a whisper I’m giving to the air
Maybe starting with your ...
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Categories: textured, appreciation, change, girlfriend, longing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTapestry of Broken Threads

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Sometimes I wake, at least believing I have, 
but find that I'm wandering about, 
perhaps dreaming while walking in a mist, 
through empty halls where moonlight 
doesn't stream through wind...
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Categories: textured, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Was she meant to be broken?

...As far as ethereal creatures are concerned, 
she fell somewhere in between 
a wood nymph—
	fragile and belligerent— 
and a centaur—
	untamable and resilient 

she is a living, breathing juxtap...
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Categories: textured, corruption, growth, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTell

...Tell Your wind
no need to roar,

my own need
push enough --

Tell Your Sun
high at its zenith,
no need for excess
gleamith -- 

Confound further
my soul
saying, for you, no
love to be f...
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Categories: textured, desire, god, identity, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNaturally Fermented

...The time of vibracy has dissolved
and the crust on my skin, tells me I'm old
days of plodding feet and passive motion
    are upon me
my candlelight grows shorter as each day passes
and I become...
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Categories: textured, life,
Form: Free verse

He came in White

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In its darkest dark, Light pitched its Bright,
When the light hit the tide.
I saw the flight, the sky, and grass—
With whom to guide.
To glow in the light, the dark came for a fight,
No gloves...
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Categories: textured, africa, color, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSONIC HENDERSON

...JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/

IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/

NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT Y...
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Categories: textured, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Premium MemberYo Bro Sound It Out

...Yo Bro Sound It Out/Tony Adamo
Yo bro, you got to sound it out/ let the spoken words roll/ let yourself go/your words are in and out of the rhythm track/ It’s the downbeat groove/ man, hit that word...
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Categories: textured, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

orange ginger twirl

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atop
a garden wall

striped marmalade throw

feline
lazy time
under sunshine

interlaced visions
a weaving

paws dangle in indolent ease
reach
underlay deep

whiskers sense sparro...
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Categories: textured, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberfor luck

...(a university-life vignette)

It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for...
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Categories: textured, celebration, drink, humor, school,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Harmony Tree

...My thoughts of this world lie troubled and profound
As I pause drenched in the golden hues of copper fields
Stretched to the limit of the bronzed horizons that crowned
Beaming with the aspiration ...
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Categories: textured, encouraging, happiness, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Picture on the Parlor Wall

...When midnight flames flicker aesthetic reveries,
releasing ashes of rainbow petals,
upon the canvas of undressed seasons,
I delve into blue blurs of butterflies,
framed in floating colors of nost...
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Categories: textured, color, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDECLARATIVE UNIT newman zip

...The
metaphysical
of
human scale
   counts

spectral closeness
  centirely
of colour
 flanking form
in
extreme
   asymmetry
lateral
    inflections

continuity
 presence
of verticals...
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Categories: textured, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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