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The Ladies’ Love Oracle

It will be too glorious. Go to your ruin, if you will. It is needful that he be very good; yes, in spite of delays. He will love you for a m...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byCatherineBKrause , essay , free verse , language

watching him with her

she sang and he danced– he is mad or I am much mistaken From The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen (New York: The Norton Library, 196...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHLFoster , free verse , holiday , women

Filey

Almost mid-way betwixt Scarborough and Bridlington, Filey Brigg, being a nose of cliff thrust out into the sea to form a horn of Filey Bay. ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byAnabellaMariaGalang , darkness , free verse

A Hiding Darkness

The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness like mold beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper and ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byRosaWalling-Wefelmeyer , free verse , sex

Profits

in the real sense of the word, pro that wonderful, fun, and deliciously creative force that bathes the body in delight and pleasure, and wha...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHowieGood , death , fire , free verse

Some Sort of Shining

I can still see the bright-crimson glow. This wasn’t any ordinary fire, It was some sort of shining. I’d never seen anything like it in the ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHowieGood , free verse , index , titles

Rust Belt Americana

Searching for Pittsburgh Going there To see if something comes next Finding something How to love the dead A year later Explicating the twil...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byHLFoster , childhood , haiku , seaside , women

Mundesley

We may come to the sands through pathways cut in the cliff, and the tide leaves on these priceless shores long lagoons which are the delight...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byDaleWisely , dreams , free verse

Soil, sand, dust

If anyone sees that sand or dust is falling on him, then he will become very rich and own a lot of property. If he sees that he is walking i...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byGabrielSmy , childhood , conversation , death , free verse

Not given to imagination

Mummy, I’m not afraid to die. Why do you talk of dying and you so young do you want a lollipop? No, but I shall be with Peter and June. Mumm...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byTaidghLynch , free verse , science

Fossil

In this quiet inlet, some eddy has collected and drowned at the bottom of the mire, now turned into marl, enormous heaps of shells of every ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byJRSolonche , free verse , list

Humiliation

Body collapsing in on itself A bowed head Shoulders curling over chest Angling torso away from others Uncontrollable shuddering or shivering...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byAlexAlbright , free verse , writing

Theme IV

A false alarm, caught in the act: A joke on me, my peculiar mistake. The stalled car, my experience in a strange Sunday school. ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byMelanieBarbato , free verse , geography , vegetables

Wholesome Nation

Too few countries in the world have chosen a vegetable to be their national symbol but Wales chose the leek From something that came from Th...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byDanielGalef , free verse , interview , space

In the Shadow of Selene

There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely and they’re two different things. I was alone ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byWinstonPlowes , prose poems

Mysteries of Carrados

“Two left shoes" he remarked encouragingly. "And an equally devastating sight of two practically blind states in America". Sm...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

age , book , byHowieGood , free verse , quotation , sex

The Pornography of Everyday Life

Last year, I woke up in a hotel room in Amsterdam. There was a woman in my bed. I looked in the mirror and saw that my eyebrows were gray. I...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byVictoriaBean , couplets , titles

Sweet Thursday

What happened in between the troubled life of Joseph and Mary hooptedoodle there would be no game. Enter Suzy - the creative cross tinder is...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

book , byJoannaWhite , free verse , language , newspaper , science

Sticks and stones

Unfortunately it is far from true… The power of words to affect your emotions and actions is well demonstrated in science. A word is not a c...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

animals , book , byGabrielSmy , free verse , list

On the division of animals

More often than not, the linguist or anthropologist just throws up his hands and resorts to giving a list — a list that one would not be sur...

historis 15 Jun, 2021