An Old Soul Angles Inside Itself
“Waits for a tug at the bait:/ a book with blank pages strung/ from the hook of a question mark.” Weekend poem, by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
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Night Life
“Each day is not like this: Her edges showed sharp/ as diamonds one Tuesday before Wednesday dark/ pulled her from rain and dropped her in a car.” Poem of the Week (April 15), by Mark J. Mitchell.
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‘As though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul’
“Then there were stars and he tried to breathe in the pulse of their light./ The flickering of stars is like the heartbeat before death.” Weekend poem, by Clarissa Aykroyd.
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Stepping
“The morning was new/ and these were morning thoughts./ The villages reduced to the howling of dogs/ belonged to the night.” Poem of the Week (April 8), by Moniza Alvi.
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World Pageant, Miss Germany 2013 – ‘Beauty with a Purpose’
“It diminishes you,/ Amina, so// To sell your splendour/ In the name of charity…” Weekend poem, by Samuel Reilly.
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the trials and tribulations of a well-endowed woman
“my breasts offend my father,/ more so than my opinions…” Poem of the Week (April 1st), by Hira A.
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Acrosticalyptic
” Meanwhile, as he’s saying this, I can’t help but notice the goatee/ Eerily sprouting around his mouth. His teeth are as white as the/ Angels that betrayed him…” Weekend poem, by Jordan Blum.
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Autobiography of a Writer’s Notebook
Do receptacles of beauty share in the joy it creates? Returning contributor Madhurima Duttagupta pens the diary of a poet’s diary.
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Quiet Paths, Quiet Stones
“Green buffers green, all of yesterday/ converges/ into thickly arching swatches./ Just out of sight a late despair…” Weekend poem, by Frank C. Praeger.
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The Allure of Accidents
“The one I liked best/ was the house with the tree/ that had been peeled/ like a banana/ by that tornado…” Poem of the Week (March 18) by Iris Mahan.
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