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Message from the Cathedral
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Between the altar
and the belfry of the village cathedral,
an ancestral differenceꓽ age-long toll of the bell
and
historic quiet —
all to measure the heartbeat of man
and ascertain the valour in him.
It's wartime, we are sadly reminded!
The sounds of bombs come with both
Heart-cracking noise and necropolis-silence.

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Gold is Best
by Leo W

Gold is best, we all agree
A timeless thing of beauty
Gold is merit, gold is wealth
Olympic medals, trophy shelf

Men pray for gold, or go to war
Or break into the jewelry store
To hell with frankincense and myrrh!
The wisest wise man brought it first


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Love?
by Grace Hough

Could this emotion
be something unknown
a foreign language
never spoken to the living

I can't understand
this feeling that I bare
is it something to express
or is it teenage-
not actually there

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79. Still Adjacent
by Kea Campbell

Pardon my bluntly put, but people won't endure your fits and pricks much too long. 
Even the wolves won't bite your lies. They're not afraid—they'll blitz your prongs. 
 
The same thought creeps around my consciousness like an intruder in my home away from home,
Because there's a con in my house; a mole next door. I fancy a safe space and peace—all alone
 
Contouring your entourage is a classic precocious assimilation tactic. 
Polygraphs haunt you in your sleep because you worship gossip as if it’s a situational prophylactic. 
 
Your narc addiction is narcissistic. Strangers defy perspective and get hooked into your rave,

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A Logician’s Lament
by Oliver Foreman

Day comes again, the sun is in the sky.
Predictable again, the sun is never shy.
Night comes again, the sun is nigh to die.
To say otherwise; To say a lie.

I count the stars, a finite crowd.
I count my wishes, a finite cloud.
I see my blood, I count it too.
A finite world of finite views.


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Recent Conflict Poems
Message from the Cathedral
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Between the altar
and the belfry of the village cathedral,
an ancestral differenceꓽ age-long toll of the bell
and
historic quiet —
all to measure the heartbeat of man
and ascertain the valour in him.
It's wartime, we are sadly reminded!
The sounds of bombs come with both
Heart-cracking noise and necropolis-silence.

......

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79. Still Adjacent
by Kea Campbell

Pardon my bluntly put, but people won't endure your fits and pricks much too long. 
Even the wolves won't bite your lies. They're not afraid—they'll blitz your prongs. 
 
The same thought creeps around my consciousness like an intruder in my home away from home,
Because there's a con in my house; a mole next door. I fancy a safe space and peace—all alone
 
Contouring your entourage is a classic precocious assimilation tactic. 
Polygraphs haunt you in your sleep because you worship gossip as if it’s a situational prophylactic. 
 
Your narc addiction is narcissistic. Strangers defy perspective and get hooked into your rave,

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To God Be the Glory
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

This candle burns slowly —and with the severity of courage
We pick our way with utter caution down the bombarded stairway
One thing is certain: we must flee from this scoffing pillage.
Aided by fluttering tallow, our vision is haunted by the airway.

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A Logician’s Lament
by Oliver Foreman

Day comes again, the sun is in the sky.
Predictable again, the sun is never shy.
Night comes again, the sun is nigh to die.
To say otherwise; To say a lie.

I count the stars, a finite crowd.
I count my wishes, a finite cloud.
I see my blood, I count it too.
A finite world of finite views.


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Serenity
by Micah Anderson

Beaten down and numb,
she was just an echo, a shadow.

She faced Darkness and stared longingly into his eyes.
He knowingly opened his arms to her.

She moved nearer to serenity and further from herself.
On the cusp of perpetuity,
she felt a tug pulling her back.


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