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Poem of The Day
By Darius Simpson
but i know better. i know poets like you don’t do no half-steppin. especially not on your way out. especially not the departure you don’t come back from. i’m sure it was somethin theatric. like death stumbled past your window earlier that evening. makin his regular rounds with clipboard gripped in bone hand. didn’t realize it was…
Poem of The Day
By Cynthia Cruz
Over the earth
A white bell in the sky,
Radiating, like madness.
By eleven, there were already
Yellow horses…
A white bell in the sky,
Radiating, like madness.
By eleven, there were already
Yellow horses…
Poem of The Day
By Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Remember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it. Remember all the balance beams
and the room full of stuffed animals
at the children’s hospital? How scary it
was and always dark? It was meant
to be comforting but you knew better
and survived it. That gauntlet of …
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it. Remember all the balance beams
and the room full of stuffed animals
at the children’s hospital? How scary it
was and always dark? It was meant
to be comforting but you knew better
and survived it. That gauntlet of …
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