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An atrium with empty seats; the author sees one filled with empty people
A world full of fools
One day, I went looking for the secret to being a good writer
Juliet drinking the poison
Pretty poisonous
A symphony of disgust and sighs
Susan Eirich holding the pups with a wide smile on her face
It was all because of seven wolf puppies
The beginning: stars must have been dancing the night they were born
An open book, eager to be read
Young journalist's surprise stint transforms her
The story of a neophyte editor
Rooftop of an old Greek temple with statues on top, Greece
Refuge and remedy refused & an Academy for global citizens
Chronicles of sorrow and wisdom
A dilapidated hotel room where the author finds themselves in his quest for destiny
Finding myself lost one day
An uneventful day morphs into a full-blown identity crisis
A rose on fire
Tic tac toe
A game of raison d'etre
AI-generated image of a young adult woman wearing a religious veil, praying outdoors in a scene depicting saintly grace, generosity, and selflessness
The tale of grace: a lesson in spontaneity and selflessness
Exploring the concept of grace through a profound story of generosity and redemption
A young woman in a trenchcoat, contemplative, sitting at the shore of a small lake
An invisible reality
Are we overthinking or just trusting our instincts?
Art is a journey of connection, love, self-exploration, and tragedy
The keychain was left unlocked
Art, creativity, love, and the enigma that is life
Couple chilling at the bonfire in Tasmania, Australia
Feed your soul with pieces of love, maybes, and beauty
Pieces of poetry
A Syrian refugee carrying child, Istanbul, Turkey
Globe trotter Italian travels: three poems
Exploring tales of endurance and courage across different times and places
A writer sat at his desk working
A writer
Half genius and half arrogant
Tricks being displayed at a carnival, representing the social dilemma of pomp and facades
The looking glass
The carnival of rust
A man wearing a hat and carrying a backpack
Hymn is the name of the symphony
From the ashes comes out a man
Stephen Mackey, Pipistrelle, 2014, oil on panel
Free as a bat
A haibun-esque piece
Spooky zombie hands pressing against a windowpane in the dead of night
Night terrors: a tale of dreams, spirits, and sisterhood
Exploring the intersection of sleep paralysis, spiritual beliefs, and sibling support in overcoming nightmares
A curated collection of captivating snapshots intertwines seamlessly with the intimate musings found within the pages of a cherished notebook
A garden of images, of returns and longings
Navigating time, memory, and longing through poetic reflections
A person with a cloud on his head
It’s time for metaphoring: it makes the day less boring
Something light and airy, for winter’s moving away
A man leaning against a wall smoking a cigarette
A beauty
Eventually it will come to pass
Woman in nature enjoying view, leaning on the tree branch
The unexpected intrusion
Time and trees
Silhouette of woman standing on the seashore
Two verses from the dolphin's lore
Whispers of the sea
Father and son spending a day at the beach together, a blissful relationship
A blissful parent-child relationship
Father and son
A person sitting on a step with a can and a cigarette
John
The police car is not after you
Moon, eclipse
Blackberry solar & Blackberrying
A dance of blackberry blood and words under the sun
Writing a poem by the river
A drive in the country
It's not over until it's over
A woman with a suitcase in her hand standing on a path
Following her instincts
The right path to take
A man and his pain
Will it hurt forever?
But he is tough
A figure, cloaked in a sleek black leather jacket, exudes an air of cool nonchalance as wisps of smoke curl around him, completing the scene with an edgy allure
The dream of a lazy muggle
A tale of nine months by the leaky tap
An hourglass resting on the floor, time slipping away, a poignant symbol of life's transience
Ephemeral musings
Exploring the labyrinth of emotions
A symbol of the experience of being a minority
I never intended to write about race
Reflections of a colored girl
Woman breathing in a meditative pose
Representational house
Life after the death of my favorite person
The Nutcracker is another chapter in the eternal struggle between good and evil, the paradoxes of beauty and the grotesque, light, and shadows
The Nutcracker Christmas
The triumph of true love and common struggle of friendship against adversity
Person standing alone in the dark
Let's talk
The man and his different lives
A captivating illustration showcasing the silhouette of a woman's head against the backdrop of a mesmerizing sunset
Summertime madness
A journey through mortality, mindfulness, and the beauty of darkness
A woman breathes deeply as she reflects on her childhood experiences
The essayist
Reflections on growing up as a colored girl in the Jim Crow south
Ana María García Taveras
Disappearing
A letter to the shadows
A Lady Justice statue, gracefully holding the scales of justice, symbolizing fairness and equity
Snapshots of life
Oldies, but still realities
A gladiator and tiger
Soon it shall be us
A poetic call for compassion and unity
Woman with her hands on her head at her work desk
Workplace
Routine is making me crazy
Anton Smit, stream of consciousness, 2022, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
The world behind the eyes wide shut
Only to lift them and be born again
Man sitting in front of a window
Dilemma
A man with more than just a look
Angel Face, Devil Thoughts painting, Kasia Frankowicz, Australia
Sediments of memories bitter & box of forevers
A prose poem and a blank verse poem is written with the style of stream-of-consciousness
Person walking alone on concrete
Alone
We are all alone with a mind of full of tragedies
Happiness on a person's face that also has a collection of pills
Pills happy
Embracing what emerges from the creation
An apparition surrounded by energy and lights
The apparition
A revealing unknown glimpse
Unfolding emergency scene along the bustling thoroughfare of Kent Avenue, in New York City, United States
The vision of Luigi
Cascading reflections
Illustration by Paola Bilancieri
Don Quixote’ is still alive
Argentina's fighter for the unjust
The sparkle in a woman's eyes
Following her eyes
The table has turned
A person walking in a cemetery where the dead are buried but remembered
Body in a burial song
To those who have carried a heavy heart
Kitty stuck in an umbrella outside
The kitty and I
The story of us and our time together
A woman lying down on the street smoking a cigarette
Where's my melody?
Swirling in a sea of smoke
Julia Fullerton-Batten, Bird cage, 2005
Ballet of the brain
A quartet of poetic pieces
A water fountain in San Juan, Puerto Rico
The party
Know and understand yourself
A tea garden with a waterfall nearby
The tea, the high, and the chai in between
A dedication to tea gardens and waterfalls
The mind wrapped around the understanding of love and death by Haenuli
Understanding love & death
Two poems
Shelves of books that extend into the sky
What does it mean to be a book?
A poem about these things I love
His eyes reminder her of the ocean, sometimes blue and sometimes green
Following his eyes
Don’t follow blindly
A healing heart at sunset
Ode to a healing heart
An auto-biographical poetic arc of grief
A double rainbow witnessed in solitary on the beach
Rainbows
A faraway touch
Light peering through the dark clouds
Let there be light
A short story
An ariel and its twin in an open field on a sunny day
Ariel’s Twin
Inspired by Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel"
She smiles at him, the young man's heart capsizes, a source of heat runs through his body, it's been so long since anyone smiled at him © Kim Chi Pho
This is a true story
If you believe it
Clock in the center of a subway station
Time passing
Time is always moving
A seesaw waiting to be ridden and staring out into the vastness of the sea
Up & down
A seesaw shift
Benches in the park and leaves on the ground
Just another day in the park
Live or die
Damien Hirst, "the Hours Spin Skull", 2009
Darlings before death
A song and dance in my head
Moly, my dog, at the beach
Our last goodbye
My farewell to Moly
Soul exiting the body
Siphoning the soul
Four raw and expressive poems
Uptown Manhattan, Central Park, New York City, USA
The associate
It’s never too late to do what’s right
A woman standing alone in front of a fast-riding train
Likely
...and another day goes by...
Moly in the comfort of a loving home
My dear Moly
A letter to my dog
Roman Quarry Camp, also known as Latomeio Camp, was a quarry situated southwest of the Aquaeductus Kyrenaike in the Green Mountains region of Cyrenaica, overseen by the Romans
Earth quarriors
View of a Roman Quarry, art by Matt Aufderheide
Hiba Outa looking out from her cell
Visiting my cell
A poem from a prisoner of love
A glass of wine spilt on a brand new green and white polka dotted tablecloth
In a forgetful world, a tablecloth remembers
The stains that jolt our memory
Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain
A familiar encounter
What is it exactly that lets us trust strangers?
Amina Benbouchta, Untitled (Black Heart), 2013
Echoes of the heart
A semi-biographical fictional poetic opera
Beautiful sunset over Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, Central America
One rhythm
A heartfelt rhyme
Charles Dickens was an famous author from Victorian London
Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol
Tells us the necessity of Universal Health Care
The sizzling fat dripping from the meats of a barbecue
A roaring feast for the eyes
Five poems selected from Barbeque Meltdown
A woman drinking coffee in a cafe in Rome, Italy
The roommate
How love brings life back
Aggression and carrying out vengeance is one way for a man to feel alive
Man alive
A flash story
Picturesque view of the motion of the sea
The far sea moving in my ear
A semi-autobiographical fictional trilogy
A cabin in Praia do Luz, Brazil, on a starry night
Life is but a dream
Inside a dreamer's dream
The Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, California, USA often used as a symbol of “The California Dream.”
What to do with unattainable dreams
How to let go of the unattainable
A depiction of a battle being fought in the darkness
Has yet another great battle of darkness begun?
Sleeping in the nightmares of Jean Moulin
A man walking up countless steps
Gone, leave the past behind
It is better left there
You never know what's lurking behind the curtains, best check it out and be at peace
The cost of peace
Learning it the hard way
Sunlight shining in the woods on a road not taken might seem unappealing at first but there's a want to see where it leads
The past relived and a road not taken
A short story
The Roman Colosseum at night
The healer
True love lasts forever
Indian Goddess, Maya, is said to be the keeper of dreams and illusions
A glass of water
A story of dreams and illusions
I feel the beauty of broken things
Broken perfume
Learning the art of letting go
Sunglasses of Nonna Annamaria
The sunglasses
Fashion never dies
White hand, black hand: where is peace in our world today?
In the words of Yannis Coutsoheros
Poems in the absence of peace
Speech about to commence
Amazing speech delivered by Abunda Lagula from Tanzania
A fictional story as a tribute to the Nobel Prize in Literature
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