2009 -- Issue III
2009 -- Issue III
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Tammie Wilson
WHISPERS
Whispers of childhood
I sometimes recall
the rage of my parents
heard through my wall
Child as a pawn
heart filled with dread
of the next day and
night in that bed
I knew he would go
only not when
Morning would come
it would be then
Try not to cry
be a big kid
Momma said so
that's what I did
Time would pass
there he'd be
like nothing had died
it was only me
Again in my bed
Again through the wall
Again angry voices
Again start to call
And Again
Dark of night
hearing him go
it's my fault
Momma said so
Tammie Wilson
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Lauren Kinkeade
"Cracks in the sidewalk"
Souls passing by each
other in the streets.
kicking the dust at your feet you wonder
about knowing.
Hats in harms way take pride in
walking past you, stopping
you first to glance.
More than glance. give you That
long once over. Til you
skip and step and miss
the rose in the sidewalk.
Lauren Kinkeade
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Linda Woolven
Undertones
Undertones:
the subtle
silent
put downs,
tuned into
the listening ear.
It is not
with words
we wound,
it is with
the silencer:
the sarcastic
shape of our intent.
Linda Woolven
Linda Woolven reports: I have published over 70 poems in journals across Canada, the United States and the U.K.. The poems have appeared in Journals like, Dana Literary Society, Amethyst Review, Write On, Sepia Poetry Magazine, New Mirage Quarterly, The Kaleidocope Review, Canadian Writer's Journal, Pink Chameleon and Fullosia Press. One of my poems received an award from Dana Literary Society. I also published a chapbook, called "Life's Little Lessons" l2 summers ago that featured 26 poems.
I have also published a short story in Happy, and a story in Characters.
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Ron Koppelberger
Teardrop Mist
Breaths of warm wine and swallows of crying cure,
In melancholy will and real wonder,
A tempest in conscious persuasions of
Desire, in consuming silent ash and fires
Of amber flame, a rare cache
Of scarlet teardrop mist, an elaborate
Cloak of gossamer and
Delicate muse.
Ron Koppelberger
Ron Koppelberger reports: I am an aspiring poet and I have been writing for the last four years. I have been published by Poetry Press in Eternal Echos, Failure, by N.E.V.C., Heros, by N.E.V.C., Anonymous, by Dance of My Hands, Steamy Misted, and by The Sheltered Poet, May 2009, In Gray.
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