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Most Recent Submissions Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Woman of Dreams” _________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Through Flowered Fields” “The Living Roots” “Where Birches Grow” ________________________ Paul Ballinger ~POETRY~ “Lost Love?” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Sweet Lyrics of Affection” “The Dove of Peace” “We Were Like a Kit” _______________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “Life is a Journey” ______________________ Kathryn McL Collins ~POETRY~ “Slow Dance” “Spring Comes” “Sister’s Letter” ______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Ripe Wheat” “Season of the Rose” “First” ________________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “War Graves” “Those Who Have” “Will You Guide Me” ________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Sun Dried Clothes” “Familiar Fields” “Dinner on the Farm” ________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “The Threads That Hold” “Sad Moments” “Walking a Foggy Beach” _______________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “To Know God” _________________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “God in My Heart” _____________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Magic” “Servings” “Thoughts on Life” ~STORY POEM~ “Journal Entry #828” ________________________ Kathryn McL Collins ~POETRY~ “Yellow School Bus” “Inspired by Johannes Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring” ________________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “Time Travel in My Mind” ________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “A Promise” “The Force of Water”  “Wanting” _______________________ Jude ForÉse ~POETRY~ “signing” “exit wound” “golden gondola” ________________________ Dan Rosenhagen ~POETRY~ “Butterfly” “A Man Who Hates” “Magic in My Hands” _______________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Senior Moment” _______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Running With the Breeze” “Chatham Island Albatross” “Grandma Had Her Way” ________________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Epitaph” “Brother Sister Love” “Chainsaw People” ______________________ Scarlet ~ESSAY~ “Why Do I Even Bother Puttin’ on Makeup?” _________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Wild Roses”  “Golden Glory”  “City By the Lake” ______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “The Girl Over There” “A Shadow” “Ascend to Shakespearean Summer Sky” ________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “No Words”  “Love’s Gauntlet”  “Letting Go” __________________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~STORY POEM~ “The Wings of Man” ________________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “Alligators Closing In” __________________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “Perspectives Are Powerful”  “Getting Along” “Behind Bars” _____________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “The Fireflies” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Veterans of Vietnam” “May is Mother’s Month” __________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “When Leaves Appear” “An Afternoon Away” “Wind and Whispers” ______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “Kissing the Darkness” ________________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “A Warrior’s Tears” _________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Owl Alert!” “Phantoms Passing” “Summer Dreams” _____________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “When Love Fills the Heart” “At Long Distant Hills” “With Salt Water Blood” ______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Number One Magician” _______________________ Samuel E. Stone ~POETRY~ “Constantly Moving” _________________________ Joyce Johnson ~POETRY~ “Appearances Deceive” “Childhood Memories” “My Hero” ______________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “To Be Alive Again” _____________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Success” ______________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “The Domino Effect” “Will You Guide Me” “Dreaming” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Clothe Me”  “Footsteps”  “Whisper to Me” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “True Cool” “Solitude is Not a Negative” “Darkness Evades the Light” ______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “The Daily Wood” “The Celery and the Onion” “King Rufous” _______________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “Clouds” ___________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Missing”  “Warmth of Arms”  “Our Shared Pains” ________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “One Day in May” “Mountain King” ”The Living Roots” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Relief” ______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~STORY POEM~ “Mortar and Stone _______________________ Cathy Quaglia ~POEYRY~ “Pule” (haiku prayer) _______________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Easter Lilies in May?” “Bouquet of Zinnias” _______________________ Paul Ballinger ~POETRY~ “Lady of Stone” ________________________ Ch’erie de Perrot ~POETRY~ “Ice Princess” “Tears of a Poet” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Light of My Heart” “Fountain of Youth” “Dark Mistress” _______________________ Dan Rosenhagen ~POETRY~ “Furrows” “Monster” ~SHORT STORY~ “The Book of Knowledge” ________________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “House of Lost Souls” ________________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY “The Incessant Irish Cow” ________________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Totally Content” ______________________ Jacqueline Ann Piech ~POETRY~ “Control” ______________________ Cathy Quaglia ~POEYRY~ “Fifth month haiku, Maui” _________________________ Annabel Sheila ~POETRY~ “The Cleansing” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Time’s Reasoning” “The Music” “Wine” ________________________ Rose Marie Rideout ~POETRY~ “When I Sit and Wonder” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Henry and Me” “What is it?” _______________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Lady Bugs” ________________________ Robert Lesher ~POETRY~ “7:45 A.M.” _______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Eagle Nebula” “Echo Valley” “Flash Flood” ______________________ Will Patrick ~POETRY~ “Endgame” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY “The Eyes of a Child” _______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “A Beautiful Dawn of Grey” ______________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Slipping Away” “Waterfalls” “Dreams” _______________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “An Education” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Continuity” “The Hard Times” “Chasing Expectations” ________________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “My Obituary” ~SHORT STORY~ “Tegerhook Hill” ________________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “When Night Slippers It’s Sleeves off” _________________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ ”True Love Arrived” “They Walked in Silence” “Mother Nature Dressed” ______________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “The Calm After the Storm” _________________________ Karl Krahn ~POETRY~ “Love?” “Honor” ____________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “A poem” _____________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “What You Are”  “Really and Truly”  “What Might Have Been” ~STORY POEM~ “Journal Entry #419” _______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “Heart Bitter Beat” ______________________ Sue Graves ~POETRY~ “Judgmental Thoughts” ______________________ Marcia Miller-Twiford ~POETRY~ “Fallacy of Control” “The Man I Love” “Music of Yesteryear” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “In Your Arms” “The Setting Sun” “Comments” ______________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Rude or Stupid?” ______________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “London” “Power through” ________________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Eyes of Care” “The Stranger” “Distant Shores” ________________________ Paul Ballinger ~POETRY~ “Alone” “But I Can” _______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ ”Where Grasses Grow” “Wind and Whispers” “Eagle” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Revealing” “My Loss”  “Forgiveness” ~STORY POEM~ “Innocence and Butterflies” _____________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Mirror to My Soul” “Gently the Door Closes” “Wish” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “Beyond Repair” (kyrielle sonnet) _________________________ Ronnie Doe ~POETRY~ “I Love You”  “Riding On the Train”  “Take the L Out of Gold” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~EASTER POETRY~ “The Shadow of Golgotha” “On a Hill in Calvary” “Via Dolorosa” _____________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “A Child’s Predicament” ~STORY POEM~ “Where Are All the Friends?” ______________________ Robert Lesher ~POETRY~ “Sometimes, I feel Ohio” “Honest Man” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Whose Blood?” “Thank You for the Mustard Seed” “Pack and Lose the Greater Truth” _____________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “A Single Potato Chip” ______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Guide Me” “Impish Games” “Change” _______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Mona Lisa” “Completion” “Sweet Embrace” _________________________ Jude ForÉse ~POETRY~ “dream juice (h) ... dream mêlée” “dream juice (i) ... playground” “dream juice (j) ... parachute” ________________________ Samuel E. Stone ~POETRY~ “All You Need to Know” ~ARTICLE~ (a continuing series) “Traitor In the Ranks” _______________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Walls” “Smile” “Sunlight” _____________________ Liz Cosline ~POETRY~ “The Energy Flow” _____________________ Will Patrick ~POETRY~ “Restless Sleep” ______________________ richard lloyd cederberg ~POETRY~ “shards and impressions… “ “Posited… (tankas)” “the real friendships...” ________________________ Hal O’Leary ~POETRY~ “Dummy” “Dear Friend” ______________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “Blur” “Don’t Lose Your Punctuation!” “I Can’t See Reality” _________________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Freedom Of a Horseback Ride” ________________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “A Hospice Nurse’s Prayer” (English pensee) “The Trespasser” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “When Children Leave the Family Home” “God’s Devotees” “Every Corner Of the World” __________________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “Odd Man Out” _______________________ Sue Graves ~POETRY~ “A Heart Too Tender” “The Most Painful Kiss Goodbye” _________________________ Dan Johnson ~POETRY~ “It Seems” “Moon” (haiku) ______________________ Robert Lesher ~POETRY~ “Saturday’s Rain” ________________________ Karl Krahn ~STORY-POEMS~ “Mystic Love” “Painting Poetry” ______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Fox Sparrow” “Spring Dreams” “Yesterday” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Three Tulips for Your Birhday” “dungaree doll” _______________________ Joyce Johnson ~POETRY~ “Our Strong Oak” “Words (of advice to the neophyte)” “As Time Goes By” ________________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Thinking of Sick Children” “Flowers” “Parental Instinct” _____________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “Dublin Castle” ______________________ Ch’erie de Perrot ~SHORT STORY/PLAY~ “Mopoke and MorePork!” _______________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “Dawn” ______________________ Will Patrick ~POETRY~ “Exempt me from this distance” ________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Companions” “Your Love” “Darkness” ________________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~STORY POEM~ “Before Rising Sun” ______________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Life’s Race” ______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Under the Blue and Sunny Sky” “God’s Country” “The Very First Look” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Yes, I Am” “Within the Soul” “Where Love Abides” ________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Heartbeats” “Partings” “Midnight” _______________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Splendor” “Butterfly Dreaming” __________________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Relief” _______________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “Lavender” _____________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Understanding” “Twilight Sky” “Threads” _______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Sail Away” “Wanting” “Moving Away” _______________________ Will Patrick ~POETRY~ “Epitaph for a Traveler Still Unknown” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “From Fear to Courage” “The Girl Deep Inside” _______________________ Joyce Johnson ~POETRY~ “Great- Great and Greater Grandma” ~SHORT STORY~ “The Tulip Tour” _______________________ Liz Cosline ~ARTICLE~ “Why We Repeat the Things We Do” ______________________ Sue Graves ~POETRY~ “My Little Sister” ______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~STORY POEMS~ “Who You Are”  “Three Days of Rain”  “Different... But” _________________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Sing Silently” “Could I Say Why It Is I Love You?” “Dark Reflections” ________________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Anxiety” ______________________ Jude ForÉse “dream juice (e) ... cachoo” “dream juice (f) ... astral rein” “dream juice (g) ... on fire” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “With My Petty Jealousy” “Tales Of the Riverbank” “Pluvial Seattle” _______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “How Still the Night” (Shakespearean sonnet) ________________________ Jacqueline Ann Piech ~POETRY~ “With Spring” ______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Shadow Dweller” “Summer Rain” “St. Anthony” _________________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “The Toil O’The Miner” “Remembering Autumn” ________________________ Jude ForÉse ~POETRY~ “ka-boom” ______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “Winter’s War” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “When Eternity is Not Enough” “Miracles” “The Richness of Your Soul” ________________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “I need to Run to You” _______________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Pinwheel Promises” ________________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “Beyond the Horizon” ______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Simplicity’s Song” “Waiting” “Up To Us” (tankabun) _____________________ richard lloyd cederberg ~POETRY~ “Conflux (tanka)” “waiting for water” “uncharted waters” (tanka train) “Suddenly” (haibun format) _____________________ Robert Lesher ~POETRY~ “Geese” ____________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Look After Her” “The Hardest Thing to Say Was Goodbye” “A Book on the Shelf” _______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “Thoughts” _____________________ Karl Krahn ~PROSE~ “Is God Joking?” _____________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Four Corners” “Were You” _____________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “Mistakes” “Tickle me breathless” “Fate” _____________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ Limericks - 4 “Bertha” “Arthur” “Murder at the Prom” “My sixty-seventh March 13” ______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Sweet Sound of Silence” “The Rides of Life” “Sorrow’s Monologue” _______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Soulmates” “Eternally Entwined” “Stars” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “The Vagaries of Teenage P.M.S.” _______________________ Michael Mack ~POETRY~ “Counting Clouds” ______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “In the Meadow” “We Live In a Cynical World” “What Greater Compliment” _____________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “The Mustang Years” “Rocky Canyon” “Until the Splendor Fades” _______________________ Jude ForÉse ~POETRY~ “dreamjuice (a) ... ka-ching” “dreamjuice (b) ... dreamhouse” “dreamjuice (c) ... awake“ _____________________ Sue Graves ~POETRY~ “Like a Waterfall” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Someday” “To Wait” “Returning to Me” _____________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “They Give Us”  “There is That Something”  “The Diffference” _____________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Ruby Sue” ______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “The Seasons Come and Go - Spring” “Green Belt” “What Will Become of Our Desire?” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “The Future Of the Gang” “Her Anger” “Nature, Like Our Nations… A metaphor” _______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “I Feel it Heaven in My Attic Room” “Oncology” “Versifier” ________________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “When or Why” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “Angst” ____________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “A Shooting Star” _______________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “My Best Teacher” _____________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “Changes of My Heart, and Hand” “Optimism” _________________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “The Family From Hell” ______________________ Claire Fitzgerald ~POETRY~ “Easily Read” “Raindrops” “I Can See No Blood On That Board” _______________________ Will Patrick ~POETRY~ “Partial Clarity” “Dark Winds” _____________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “Silver Skinned Fairy Tales” _____________________ Paul Ballinger ~POETRY~ “Fragments” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Empty Rooms” “When I Think” “Soft Your Words” _____________________ Robert Lesher ~POETRY~ “The Gray Cat” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Nature’s Whim” “Life... A Journal” (haibun) “Lessons” _____________________ Kimmy Van Kooten ~POETRY~ “Abigail Rose” _____________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “The Wrong Goal” _______________________ Jim Martin ~POETRY~ “Sensibility” _______________________ Marcia Miller-Twiford ~POETRY~ “Winter’s Rose” “A Poet, Paper and Pen” “Because There Was You” _______________________ Thinley Tharchen ~POETRY~ “In Search of An Ear” “Who Am I” “On Space” ______________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “Just Before I Go to Sleep” “Prejudice” _____________________ Karl Krahn ~POETRY~ “The Reason” “I-Ran?” _____________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “Military Games” “Calming Breeze” “Shot Down in Flames” _____________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~POETRY~ “Lost and Item” _____________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “They’re in a Better Place” “After” _________________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “At the Annual Pancake Race” “I Thought I’d Try Tossing a Pancake” “Tossing a Pancake” ______________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “The Orchard” “Summer Dreams” “Moonshell Memories” _______________________ Sue Graves ~POETRY~ “A Heart Filled With Joy” ______________________ Marcia Miller-Twiford ~POETRY~ “He Stands” _______________________ Bill Cottringer ~POETRY~ “The Truth Will Set You Free” “Two Journeys Alone” “Love Comes Three Times” ______________________ Kathryn McL. Collins ~POETRY~ “Bandit of Youth” “Kindergarten Recess” “Upon Diagnosis” _____________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Silent Musings” “Other Days” “Only She Knows” _______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Tomorrows Lost” “Held Close” “I Miss” ______________________ Rob Bristol ~POETRY~ “The Cow and The Moon” “Drowse” “Dirty World” ______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~SHORT STORY~ “Breakfast at Noon” _____________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “The Girl” ______________________ Richard J Huggins ~POETRY~ “Simple Joys”  “Why” “The Right Words” ______________________ Ingrid Showalter Swift ~POETRY~ “Drifting On a Silver Sea” “Through White Forest of Red Fire” “Let the Jammed Cogs Be Damned” _______________________ Myrna D. Badgerow ~POETRY~ “Inheritance” “I Will” “Healing” _______________________ Melissa R. Mendelson ~SHORT STORY~ “Never in Stone” _____________________ Karl Krahn ~POETRY~ “God’s Last Warning?” _________________________ Scarlet ~POETRY~ “Smarter” _______________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Jane and I” “Be Gentle With the Earth” “Only Skin Deep” _______________________ Dawn Anderson ~POETRY~ “A Restless Winter” _________________________ Toni D. Helfrick ~POETRY~ “In the Dark Of the Night” “An’ I’ll be Thinkin’ o’ Ye!” “The Road to Nowhere” ~SHORT STORY~ “Visiting With My Dad” _____________________ Paul Curtis ~POETRY~ “Benign Spirit” “They Follow Their Hearts” “But Don’t Tell Me” _________________________ Betty Lou Hebert ~POETRY~ “Pink Twilight“ “Wind and Whispers“ “Burned Bridges“ _________________________ Ch’erie de Perrot ~POETRY~ “He gives... ______________________ ~*~ There are hundreds of additional poems, essays, articles and short stories you can access from the Alphabetical List of Members. Select any member and you’ll find links to all their works. ~*~  Please note: nothing obscene, overtly violent, containing explicit profanity, or is deemed to be detrimental to any race, creed, religion, or sexual orientation is ever posted on this website. ~*~  Website Registed to, Designed, and Operated by Marcia Miller-Twiford -1999-2012 XXX