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Spare Me

February 26, 2026February 23, 2026 Ronda Cooperstein

Spare me the postings Of festival elephants Facebook friends And twitter feed. I have already found The links I need.

Len Shindel Poetry

Ambulances

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 Len Shindel

Their sirens overpowered the mill’s wildest percussions, ram’s horns, shofars, stirring the flocks. Our fears tunneled back to the last

The end: Image by Franz Bachinger from Pixabay

Dan Cuddy Poetry

What Is The End?

December 20, 2025December 20, 2025 Dan Cuddy

What is the end? A time or a place? On what attaching fact does it hinge? Is it propelled forward

Len Shindel Poetry

Restraint

October 11, 2025 Len Shindel

Never went to war Don’t know what it’s like When team members go down, Bleed out, get shipped home Like

Poetry

Who Knows

August 7, 2025 Ronda Cooperstein

There is more to morning than coffee

Poetry

Time Out

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 Ronda Cooperstein

When nothing about me is beautiful anymore

Poetry

Serenading You

April 21, 2025 Earl Yarington

Slowly searching in the sea of life, The sound of birth echoes within me that night; I search for passion,

fallen foal: Image by rihaij from Pixabay

Poetry

Fallen Fortune

April 11, 2025April 6, 2025 Ronda Cooperstein

I heard you cried When the yearling died All that money lost And precious time. The deal you made With

Poetry

Before

September 17, 2024 Len Shindel

Before our opinions, you were as confident and brash as I was tentative and timid.

Poetry

Rock

September 16, 2024 Len Shindel

As the coal train screeches by,

I think of the dust

from which they died,

their oxygen tanks

only a palliative,

their suffocation

normal and expected,

the inherent risk of a

transitory prosperity.

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