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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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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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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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Buttercup Blues
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Mom captured my truth,
As a sixties flower child,
Yet in bloom of youth!

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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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Recent Conflict Poems
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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Futility Of Conflict
by Andy Hunter

In a remote place of safety, leaders declare their instructions.
Generals obey these commands and order death and destruction.
This ageless, timeless madness is once again repeated.
With no mercy or compassion until the enemy’s defeated

As smoke and dust with blinding lights
Creates deafening blasts thundering through the night.
Buried in rubble a terrified baby cries.
While a mother seeking shelter can find nowhere to hide.


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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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