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Recent Posts in Poetry
USA
Poetry
Philosophy
Suffocated in the Dark
We may yet contemplate the emergent beauty...
Poetry
Moon Madlings
Some people dont think anyone lives at the three-way juncture where Cyndi Lauper meets Nirvana meets Jane Austen. Dana Miller does, however, reside there.
Poetry
Tell Me A Story
God is an Atheist
What burdens does our long lost father lay on a cold pillow in front of the night?
USA
Poetry
the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
Today, in the midst of the most significant social upheaval of an entire generation, this message is deeply appropriate. - photo credit: Spenser
Poetry
Tell Me A Story
Coffee by the Window
Mortality informs the epiphany of a child.
UK
Poetry
Tell Me A Story
Holy Mile at Walsingham
A short poetic pilgrimage.
UK
Poetry
In The Pocket
This one goes out to all the bass players. - photo credit: Nick Bolton
USA
Poetry
Tell Me A Story
Letting Loss In
Once we acknowledge loss, we look for something new to take into our hearts.
UK
Poetry
Native Wave
A lilting poem about natures perfect motion.
USA
Poetry
Tell Me A Story
Spring Song
Its spring - at last its spring.
Nigeria
Poetry
The Golden Moon
A chronicle of love, tragedy, and enduring connection. - photo credit: Jens Lindner
USA
Poetry
The song of defeat
These days are dark days. Show me your fears, and I will show you mine.
USA
Poetry
Archive
Alan Watts
Looking for things that should never be. Building the walls that will set us free.
USA
Archive
Poetry
Lavinia, Lavinia, Lavinia, Howsoever Beatest Thine Heart Among the Divinities Shall Ye Be Remembered, Lavinia
This life falls short of you in my fleeting paradise beneath the spotlight.
Sweden
Poetry
Archive
In Memoriam Bjorn Tidics
He loved a good Western, his dog Sophie, Fettuccine Alfredo, and frequent trips to the candy store. He will be missed, very much.
USA
Poetry
Archive
For Adeleia
And the sky feeds the river, and the sun feeds the sky.
USA
Poetry
Archive
Time to Drink the Wine
I found this poem from last summer, I was in LA and I decided to walk from Downtown all the way to our hotel in Studio City, just like how I used to walk to Montmartre from the Champs-Élyseés at night when I was a kid. I wrote this along the way by talking to my phone.
USA
Poetry
Archive
A Thousand Years Today
In a thousand years today what will change?
USA
Poetry
Archive
stealing broken beautiful
today we make the promises tomorrow we keep them
USA
Poetry
Archive
The Arrival
And it didn’t rain as if the clouds couldn’t speak
USA
Poetry
Archive
A Landscape
When the smoke has lifted and the sun never again forgets to shine
USA
Poetry
Archive
As Good as Love
I have cold stones in my heart And the color of desire Is dark against the night as the lights in Hollywood flicker
USA
Poetry
Archive
Illuminate the Sky
Is it enough to taste the salt of the ocean Like some love poem From across the world?
USA
Archive
Poetry
Take this world from me
I would sit with you as the sun melted in its own heat
USA
Poetry
Archive
Simplicity
I belong to these fragments of a martyr and his cause
USA
Archive
Poetry
Rinse. Repeat.
We stumble through the future some of us with magic In our fingertips
USA
Poetry
Archive
My god, Rachel, if I could paint my heart for you right now
Choosing from among these pretty cages I find strength because you are still so free
USA
Poetry
Archive
A Star For You
You’ve hidden your freedom beneath your desire
USA
Archive
Poetry
These Messengers
Kings of modern freedom these messengers shall be
USA
Poetry
These Messengers
Kings of modern freedom these messengers shall be
USA
Poetry
Archive
Slow Motion
I wish a thousand blessings on you for not hesitating
USA
Poetry
Slow Motion
I wish a thousand blessings on you for not hesitating
USA
Poetry
Classical
Canzone
Mademoiselle de la Dance
I wrote this Canzone as part of my senior thesis in Poetry.