February 15, 2022 – 10:21 pm
ON THE TABLE IN THE ROOM IN THE DARK house lies the book you didn’t know you were looking for, opened to the page with the poem about solace you didn’t know you needed; at first the letters, then the words, little by little the lines disappear as you read them in the light of […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in General, Poetry
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Also tagged Caitlín Maude, Danez Smith, Emily Barnardn, Greg Orr, Gwendolyn, Jeanette Winterson, Jelaluddin Rumi, Katie Farris, MacEwan, Padraig O Tuama, Patrick Lane, Rachel Naomi Remen
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February 7, 2019 – 3:15 pm
American poet Dion O’Reilly EVERYTHING THAT’S OLD Jets are the new motor homes chemtrails are the new clouds the unknown dead on an island are the calm before a storm robots are the new immigrants Roundup is the new hoe Colbert is the new Cronkite smoke is the new sky drought is the new summer […]
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October 12, 2013 – 8:16 pm
Falling Leaves I’ve read about falling leaves in fifty thousand poems novels and so on watched leaves falling in fifty thousand movies seen leaves fall fifty thousand times fall drift and rot felt their dead shush shush fifty thousand times […]
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Daybreak Over the tall ashen wall, between the sound of vegetables being chopped daybreak is bound and severed dissipated by a paralysis of spirit What is the difference between the light and the darkness that seems to surface through my eyes’ apertures, from the seat of rust I can’t tell if it’s the glint of […]
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It’s This Way I stand in the advancing light, my hands hungry, the world beautiful. My eyes can’t get enough of the trees – they’re so hopeful, so green. A sunny road runs through the mulberries, I’m at a window of the prison infirmary. I can’t smell the medicines – carnations must be blooming nearby. […]
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