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Poetry Breakfast

Serving a little poetic nourishment Monday thru Friday and featuring a Short Play Saturday Matinee to read.

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Post-it Therapy – A Poem by JPDiBlasi

Post-it Therapy I am the Post-it note on the subway walls. Canal Street: my body not yours, Fathers – apologize to your daughters, stay together, don't give up, Light and love to all. Read me, write on me. I am... Continue Reading →

At the Cleveland Aquarium – A Poem by Barbara Saxton

At the Cleveland Aquarium Warm words can fill our hearts far quicker than cool heads. I hide from darker thoughts, cresting waves of doubt masked as false pride that feasts on dregs of self-esteem. On frequent visits to Cleveland Aquarium... Continue Reading →

silence – A Poem by Diana Radovan

silence mother was swallowed by sharks – she had bent down to pick up seashells for me, on the river shore: first her hair, then her eyes, then her mouth. now all mother’s words are being carried on water, while... Continue Reading →

Autumn Interlude – A Poem by Sneha Madhavan-Reese

Autumn Interlude Trees don their orange vests. Mercury drops. Crescendo, cymbal crash: children walk home from school through mud puddles. We fall, under the influence of gravity. The year’s routine cracks. The wind across a girl’s cheeks: an ocean’s starry... Continue Reading →

Mira Gut – A Poem by PD Lyons

Mira Gut there are no flowers here but snow. the bay not yet free chunked with ice the white of which exists only against a distant liquid sea. at least the sun visits, comforting, illusion though it is, visions of... Continue Reading →

Climate Control – A Poem by Jane Williams

Climate Control Respect the wind drawing machines, give them enough slack to reinvent the wheel (there’s a lot you can still do with a piece of string and a small sail). Embrace patience which is the opposite of waiting. Be... Continue Reading →

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