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Tuesday Tips: What do our words provoke?
"The pen is mightier than the sword," wrote Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It’s also mightier than the bullet, the baton, the Molotov cocktail,...
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Tuesday Tips: What Can We Learn from Joseph Fasano's Poetry?
I’ve been a fan of Joseph Fasano ever since I read these words from his poem, “Mahler in New York”: “If I carry my father with me, it is...
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Poem by Connor Orrico
Home & Here Please bring me home: I would rather be with You than here, Jesus. I will not go until You let me. I will not let go ...
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Two Poems by Bruce Mundhenke
Water of Gladness May the love of the Lord, And the beauty of His creation, Become a river and a stream, That they may flow through...
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Poem by Cindy Bousquet Harris
pink lotus flower, image by Free-Photos, on Pixabay Another Way of Blooming Response to writing prompt by R. Soos, on Poetry Super...
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Three Poems by Bobbi Sinha-Morey
(dates and peaches, image by AllNikArt, on Pixabay) Put a Little Love Away Behind the box of sun-faded tissues quiet as a lamb light...
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Three Poems by Juan Pablo Mobili
(lemon tree, image by photosforyou, on Pixabay) Losing Your Parents Their loss is always news even if you’ve written heartfelt elegies...
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Poem by Matthew Andrews
Forgetting How easy it is to feel a cold wind dancing across the length of your arm and forget the force of the flames, the blistered...
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"Found" Poem by John C. Mannone
Gargantuan Universe birthed from the mouth of light That light found the entire sky one supermassive window of darkness the individual...
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Tuesday Tips: Something Different
Tuesday Tips Sometimes we need to do something different. As I wondered what to share that would be meaningful during this time of...
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Tuesday Tips: Is It Wise to Revise?
Why do poets spend so much time revising their work? Shouldn’t you just write from the heart and let it go at that? It depends on what...
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New Issue of Spirit Fire Review!
A New Issue! We are so pleased to present to you the poetry of Heath Brougher, Bruce Owens, Mark Weinrich, Veronica Michalowski, Janice...
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Poem by Heath Brougher / Art by Marie Massey
(Image: detail of Carmel Splash, by Marie Massey) Still Here (by Heath Brougher) Landscape mostly the same as before, maybe a little less...
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Three Poems by Mark Weinrich
WEIGHTLESS The butterfly basks wings flat and wide gathering every ray of warmth waiting for cold weights of night to fall away, waiting...
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Poem by Veronica Michalowski
(autumn, maple leaves, image by Jimmy Lau, on Pixabay) FROM HER HOSPITAL WINDOW Winter comes early some years burdens October branches...
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Two Poems by Janice Canerdy
God’s Aging Vessel I often lie awake and ponder life, more kind than cruel through my many years. The peaceful times by far outweigh the...
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Poem by Hiromi Yoshida
The Robin Sunglinting wheel of whirring wings— the robin bathes in the shallow pothole’s muddy water, the storm’s pock-marked...
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Two Poems by Bruce Owens
(stormy sea, image by Dimitris Vetsikas, on Pixabay) Untitled I am at home here among the soft blue waves and I will linger here awhile...
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