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Joy & Contentment

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Children’s Story

    By Paula Bohince
    Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
    It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBirdsong of Shaker Way

    By Ann-Margaret Lim
    Every day is perfect, if
    when you wake, you hear birds
    in the garden, in the yard. Birds

    up and down, ushering…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine中國時間

    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Translated By Chun Yu
    哦,而詩人跨越永恆的
    距離。完美的讀者,即使千年
    之後,也會到來。詩歌也可
    藉由願望抵達千年前的讀者。 
    李白和杜甫,幸運的海龜, 
    在有生之年找到了彼此。哦,這是 
    中國時間和中國詩人的希望。但你
    不必是詩人;你…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineChinese Time

    By Maxine Hong Kingston
    Oh, but Poet crosses eternal
    distances. Perfect reader, come though 1,000
    years from now. Poem can also…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSky Glee

    By Jane Flett
    Last night, at the excavation: pig wine & a searchlight moon. We watched seven equidistant stars make…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSissyCessful

    By Oak Morse
    Got to gala   glaze lavender my pansy        hoist my symphony

    little gal Fauntleroy     in ultra dire

    cootie yuntra…
  • Poem
    By Magda Portal
    Translated By Kathleen Weaver
    I'm a sea since I could never have been a river
    An unchanneled sea
    of green merriments
    and solitary depths…
  • Poem
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Under a spreading chestnut-tree
        ⁠The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
        With large…
  • Poem
    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Poem
    By Robert Hayden
    At Dunbar, Castle or Arcade
    we rode with the exotic sheik
    through deserts of erotic flowers;
    held in the…
  • Audio
    By Rüştü OnurTr. by Ulaş Özgün and Hüseyin Alhas
  • Audio
    By Rüştü Onur
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