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Date night by Charlie Knowlton
Come take my hand let us walk for a while. Bring your goodness, your beauty, that strawberry blond smile. To an open buffet of laughter and play, with honey dipped toppings a cherry souffle. Where we’ll swirl and twirl through God’s given treats. Unfurl a whirl into heavenly sweets. An evening of bliss not costing a cent. Then lie beneath that fortune cookie tree of content.
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 31, 20251 min read
The Secret by Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes
Navajo weavers embed a skip, a miss a drop in the pattern— reminder— defiant imperfection humbles the weaver and wearer. Japanese potters emboss the broken dark porcelain it falls in shards but the hands rework with gilded lines make the forsaken rare— trace cracks praised not hidden. If I were the weaver, the potter, all would be tangled threads and gold.
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 31, 20251 min read
University Statue by David Francis
You will never see a statue do the breaststroke or the dog paddle in a fountain.
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 31, 20251 min read
Callie’s eternal spring by Thomas Zimmerman
an April night the Christmas lights still up oh it’s alright all time is one it’s always now sweet mantras for bohemians god love ’em // rain & sun & greening up your precious hormones catching fire & even though the poet you’re in lust with says he doesn’t give a damn about your dreams you don’t believe him // dark red blossoms on the bush out front & gauze balls on the neighbors’ tree the beer you’re drinking Psychedelic Cat Grass makes you woozy yet your dream is real the
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 31, 20251 min read
Freddy by Joseph Hart
Freddy When little Fred goes, I'm going, too. Is there a heaven? The sky isn't blue. Is anything right? Is anything true? Is there a heaven? I haven't a clue.
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 29, 20251 min read
Towards Sunset by Kelle Grace Gaddi
Towards Sunset I am concave today sunken in the hollow Missing hangs empty in the heart space Hope’s light could be lifting, if it weren’t exposing We were children once clipped out of ruled paper, hands gripped tightly, sisters of a sort until time, alleged healer, severed our common We had laughter in summer, a wholeness like the sun, it as a fresh cantaloupe split, the juicy of the living, two halves bursting with seeds We gangly girls dangling in the Evergreens Our feet
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 27, 20251 min read
Lines by Joseph Hart
Lines Momma, momma, When will I die? Will it be soon? Will it be soon? Is there anything In the sky - Maybe a heaven Behind the moon?
Rupak Agarwal
Oct 26, 20251 min read
David by Joseph Hart
David “Now at last I’m strong,” Little David said; “And what I was thinking Is clear inside my head.” Then he went to tell them. But age...
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 6, 20251 min read
FURIES by SANTOSH KUMAR
FURIES Where does vice go riding on Devil’s back? Somewhere in the desert for nuclear test This is sin. Advertise from house to house To...
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 6, 20251 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 6, 20250 min read
In a flash by Dimitris P. Kraniotis (Greece)
In a flash You violated the borders which buried their know thyself You destroyed prisons behind curtains turned ablaze by the spark of...
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20251 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read


Janet Kuypers’ “The Unknown Satisfaction” book poems 2 close Poetic License 6/2/24 open mic (PL2500)
Enjoy this YouTube video https://youtu.be/WvePIdz_wvc of Janet Kuypers reading her 16-year anniversary cc&d v197 re-release “The...
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20251 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
Rupak Agarwal
Sep 5, 20250 min read
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