By Sri Chinmoy
Ultimately everything Becomes boring.Even great miracles Become boring.Even the tremendous powers of...
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- By R. L. SwihartThe young man says, “Alan can do anything he wants”“Not fly,” I sayThe young man returns a puzzled look...
- By Toi DerricotteWhen relatives came from out of town,we would drive down to Blackbottom,drive slowly down the congested...
- By Ada LimónI used to pretend to believe in God. Mainly, I liked so much to talk to someone in the dark. Think of...
- By Ahmad Almallahthe wound is bleeding into white the wound is threading clouds across the eye, across its view and how...
- By Lyn HejinianThe spoons have clattered Aren’t children little pears and observant birds I note that the green blanket...
- By Natalie ShaperoGod come on stop cutting me out of your photos God stop dragging the mouse around my shopworn body like...
- By J. Estanislao LopezThis century is younger than me. It dresses itself in an overlong coat of Enlightenment thinking despite...
- By Michelle Peñalozaanak like a sigh born every day ilong lead by scent and know-how tanong asking questions about the world...
- By Elizabeth TheriotHead tilted back, eyes to the light, I squeeze single tears of moisturizer from the glass jar: forehead...
- By Janet Loxley LewisWe have forgotten Paris, and his fate. We have not much inquired If Menelaus from the Trojan gate Returning...
- By Patricia Smith"I seen it lots of times, I seen it, just from being on the street when something new was going down...
- By Nabila Lovelaceseen a dove / in passing / the white side of a soapbox / my quandary over / dividing line is / any city...
- By Julia EdwardsBehind me, a man retrieves waterfalls of coins from a vending machine while laundry owners fold cloth...
- By Lee Young-juAll that we are is the result of what we have thought, said the Buddha. Have I returned here because...
- By Iliana RochaYou know wonder by its silence. Pinsky’s ineffable this evening. A field that isn’t quite ours, darkness...
- By Chen ChenSee the stars nightly disobeying the night. Watch the pattering rain sketch an anarchist’s map to the...
- By Pat MoraSpinning through space for eons, our earth—oceans, rivers, mountains, glaciers, tigers, parrots, redwoods...
- By Len VerweyThey'll say you are wrong to think of it as war when what you saw was only flailing, half illumined ...
- By Aigerim Tazhiwhen the memory is not the same and hands are not the same when an animal wakes up in your belly a light...