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A Simple Truth | Gil Hoy
For so long as the NRA controls Congress With its pumping poison mutant lifeblood Corrupting souls, buying silence, Innocents will continue to die From high-powered weapons of war As lone wolves sing their rancid noteless songs: A witch’s brew of shrill staccato tempo That our numbed eyes don’t hear anymore and that tastes forgotten anyway….
My Guests | P.K. Deb
My guests are ever-solicited yet they cross me flying over raising hands or running by me, so selective they are, it seems, Nevertheless, my thirsty eyes get quenched up, as my guests are witnessed entering my poor parlor walking on the way of my blood and sweat. They steer the magical rods, make my dry…
Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
From Brian Kim Stefans, Boston Review, December 1, 2001: Memento, in which the protagonist, lacking any ability to create new memories, has to tattoo his body with messages in order to maintain any sense of life’s continuity. Hejinian seems to find pleasure, if not an untapped resource, in the ability to lose one’s direction, as the…
Beyond the Night | Lynn Long
Deep beneath the dark, vast ocean blue I grew weary, drowning- in thoughts of you… So like the Phoenix, soaring on high I too shall soar, shall touch the sky In search of hope In search of light I too will rise- beyond the night… More at https://www.facebook.com/beneaththemoonlight/. The post Beyond the Night | Lynn…
Ape | Cattail Jester
The wise ape is smiling because he knows he’s an ape The rest of the apes don’t seem to see, they give themselves pretty stones from rivers and chatter about epistemology They pretend they are something other than animal, violent, selfish, reading their little books or no reading at all Even though the wise ape…
In the Blink | Chris Byrne
One look is all It takes One flash Blink, you’ll miss it Imagine that one Second What could you miss? A second Is just a blink Of the eye. The post In the Blink | Chris Byrne appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online