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I spy a poem

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Joined April 2016
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"It's a sad thing when you map the borders of a friendship and find its a narrower country than expected." - Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
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Where are the poets going? Maybe I will join there.
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A poem has spent a whole day correcting me.
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NEW POEM #63: "Erosion" by David Hanlon (@davidhanlon13) "You’re eight hours of sleep & careful folding; I’m a mouthful of ulcers & grasping at hours lost to obligation, lost to obsession." stonecirclereview.com/erosio… #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem
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At the Corner of Green and Blue I have finished a cup of bitterness. It’s late and everyone but us has fallen in love or asleep.
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Call now!
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Happy birthday to the wonderful Kay Ryan. I love this poem: ✨
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Njoku Nonso@njokunonso_18 Sep 2023
What other language do we speak when we touch each other inside the storm?
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griefcase@bakingpoetry15 Sep 2023
— Joanna Klink
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I cut off my head and threw it in the sky. It turned into birds. I called it thinking.
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I try to think of a place to hide you As a desk drawer hides a poison pen letter, But there is no drawer to hold you.
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Simeon Berry@simeonberry5 Sep 2023
“My flesh has swallowed an entire dream of heaven: / I’ve got a dozen screws floating around my spine, // casings & shells, mortar & construction nails / holding nothing forever.” —@PhilipMetres, “Act Three. The Matter of One’s Flesh” @CopperCanyonPrs
from “Act Three. The Matter of One’s Flesh” 3. Aaron My flesh has swallowed an entire dream of heaven: I’ve got a dozen screws floating around my spine, casings & shells, mortar & construction nails holding nothing forever. For legs I wheel this chair. My body’s locked in the pitying gaze of strangers, family, in the moment he froze our fates together. I recall trying to rise slipping as if on ice, unseeing my eyes, my father’s voice screaming something—what was my name— but I could only see his mouth moving, the pain in his eyes. I could not feel a thing. Every day I try to stand again. Sometimes I’m filled with joy, sometimes I want to die. Myself devour. For his wish to be remembered. I’m raked with fire. —Philip Metres

ALT from “Act Three. The Matter of One’s Flesh” 3. Aaron My flesh has swallowed an entire dream of heaven: I’ve got a dozen screws floating around my spine, casings & shells, mortar & construction nails holding nothing forever. For legs I wheel this chair. My body’s locked in the pitying gaze of strangers, family, in the moment he froze our fates together. I recall trying to rise slipping as if on ice, unseeing my eyes, my father’s voice screaming something—what was my name— but I could only see his mouth moving, the pain in his eyes. I could not feel a thing. Every day I try to stand again. Sometimes I’m filled with joy, sometimes I want to die. Myself devour. For his wish to be remembered. I’m raked with fire. —Philip Metres

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Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney who died ten years ago today
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826DC@826DC30 Aug 2023
"Jimmy was a tree and he wanted to be my friend. To be my friend, Jimmy thought he had to be a person because I am a person." -Marjorie, grade 3, published in "This Time They Hear You"
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Njoku Nonso@njokunonso_23 Aug 2023
Here's the story: The cage was old and rusty, and none of us made it out alive. If you walk backwards, you meet the wall of a city under siege. If you walk toward the future, you meet the wall of a city under siege. Someone must save us, but whom and from whom?
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I was so happy to be able to work on this while I was at Antioch—apply!
Antioch MFA Program (@antiochmfa) profile pictureAntioch MFA Program@antiochmfa27 Jul 2023
We are thrilled to share that Antioch University's MFA in Creative Writing Program now offers a full scholarship for LGBTQIA+ writers in addition to our other scholarship offerings. Apply today and be considered for our December 2023 cohort! Go to buff.ly/3GkHBZX
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‘Foxglove Country’ by @ZaffarKunial is literally a perfect poem. I gasped at the close. Sounds, syntax, language, form, references, the little Englands of grief. This poem has truly unmoored me and I don’t know when I will recover.
A green book with white and light green text is placed on a white fabric depicting dark green leaves.

ALT A green book with white and light green text is placed on a white fabric depicting dark green leaves.

A page from England’s Green is held open. Out of focus in the background is a room with some objects like artwork and a guitar.

ALT A page from England’s Green is held open. Out of focus in the background is a room with some objects like artwork and a guitar.

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