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    Renee.

    There’s a poem that will remain unfinished;its shadow willdrip ribbons of blood.Her imagination was forcefully executedthrough brazen authorityand the bursting ballad of bullets.The verses posted will replace her;will replace her voice;will have to, now.It's one less poet for mankind,one...

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    • Heart breaking

    • Powerfully penned, Tim. Excellent tribute my friend. It’s a tragedy indeed, sometimes I don’t recognize the world anymore. Appreciate you.

      Damian

    • Silencing beauty is one of mankind’s (and I use that term loosely here) gravest mistakes. We need beauty to get through what comes

    • This is the kind of poem that doesn’t ask permission—it reports from the wreckage. “A poem that will remain unfinished” is a brutal, honest truth, and the blood imagery isn’t sensational, it’s earned. I like how you refuse comfort here—no soft landing, no false resolve. The idea that the poems must replace her voice because they have to is devastating. This reads like a witness statement, not a performance. Necessary, angry, and painfully clear.

    • This one hits hard. I’ve watched that video over and over again.
      I saw another where an agent told a protester, “If you raise your voice I will erase your voice”…while I’m thinking, then the thunder of the masses will drown him if he does that. I can’t wait for the trials and all the video evidence.
      We will say their names forever so they are never forgotten.

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    20 Word Wastelands

    ...and then she died during a fierce heatwave    Flat lined, tomb side  ‘Toss my ashes to the northern lights  to drift among birches and be buried by snow’    Arrested for Drink Dreaming    Poured myself into vodka puddles  hoping for tender poetry rain,  but words were mere reflection  in dripping water on gravestones    Talking to...

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    The Shortest Distance Between Me and You is Together 

    The Shortest Distance Between Me and You is Together    To write our cathedral  we need a fountain pen  bursting ink up our neck  falling down as JFK tears  across shoulder cloisters    Swinging ropes of light shard  resuscitate the gallows fallen.  The broken patterns of sun  set on nave floor, did anyone  ask Lazarus if he wished...

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    • The title got me. The way you wove the bible in this but end it with the drink being labeled ‘What Price Salvation?’ is a damn moment. Good read

    • This reminds me of the late 60s – early eighties writers. Yes, I’ve read that far back.LOL. My dad loved the old classics, while my sister came to poetry during the 70s. So I saw a great many styles and such.
      Almost goes with LSD, this. Seriously! I don’t condone illegal drugs, ahem, yet in moderation many ideas have sprouted for many many writers.
      You write on another level, my good man.

    • Brilliantly penned, Ghosteen. This is truly an amazing write my friend. Nicely done. Appreciate you.

      Damian

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    SESSION NINE
    “LA KADUTA”
    Wednesday, January 7th, 2026

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    The La Kaduta is a short, quick, fun form to compose in.
    It can be about anything, leaving one’s creative side
    completely open to its freewheeling whimsies.

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