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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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The Comma in Your Dreams – A Poem by Lavinia Kumar

The Comma in Your Dreams A poem by Lavinia Kumar The Comma in Your Dreams It’s what’s left out of your dream – pauses when words are caught in nests, between branches, when sentences begin with and then. And then... Continue Reading →

Troubled Window – A Poem by Diane Elayne Dees

Troubled Window A poem by Diane Elayne Dees Troubled Window When my home alarm beeped, I saw a message—my problem, it said, was “troubled window.” The concept of a troubled window was new to me, but the glass— a bay window—is,... Continue Reading →

Balancing Whims – A Poem by L. Lois

Balancing Whims A poem by L. Lois Balancing Whims my father was an accountant he ran his life by the book statistical odds and calculation ruled decisions fun a by-product remainder we consumed by logic were controlled through precision but,... Continue Reading →

Apart from everything we were the same – A Poem by Jack Caradoc

Apart from everything we were the same A poem by Jack Caradoc Apart from everything we were the same She was mostly cornflakes with a side order of pikelets. I was all scrambled eggs and buttered rye-bread toast. We were... Continue Reading →

Tahrish – A Poem by Vaishnavi Pusapati

Tahrish A poem by Vaishnavi Pusapati Tahrish Imagine tambourines, imagine flowers blooming on cacti, imagine a party of women gathering in the desert, imagine the fragrance of a feast dispersing into the desert wind, to celebrate a woman’s divorce, to... Continue Reading →

Why do we write? – A Poem by Elias Lowe

Why do we write? A poem by Elias Lowe Why do we write?is it not a persistent reachingthe asking of the only questionas infinite as it is brief?it looks a myriad of ways:a pile of rocks that stack and stackan... Continue Reading →

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