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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

Schools Out

The children spun in a circle as the sun cast an eerie glow. Singing… Corona, Corona, She will soon own yuh; You will soon die and enter that pie in the sky. Then they burst into fits of laughter at their morbid joke. It had been over a year since [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

Andromeda

I came to the garden deep within the hills I came to the garden and felt peace be still I walked on the pathway enjoying the breeze Wrapping myself in the wonder of the trees I came to the garden And finally felt free I came to the garden and [...]

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Ivory Tower

There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, rifle in hand but no bullets to use. There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, yet, poison drips onto my lips as reality threatens to ensue. There is a guard standing outside my Ivory Tower, standing tall in ebony [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

LIVING WITH CORONA

Before Corona I was living the glamourous life Partying from dust to dawn Not a care in the World Just thinking about me, myself and I Then without warning, Bam! Corona, appeared Life style changed Couldn’t do a task Without wearing a mask Everywhere I went long lines saluted me [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

SNOW ON BANANA LEAVES

Flour on lacatan leaves. The image held little form in her cloudy mind as she stared through the small window on the ward. She was lucky to have a bed at the end of the pasty, bare room. Still, she began to question the serendipity when the rancid smell of [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

Thirty Thousand

A flashing flashing flashing flashing flashing light shatters night’s ebony dome: five hundred strikes per minute. Multiply by sixty, equals total strikes approximately. Did the driver vacate his seat behind heaven’s wheel storm away leaving the strobe light speed on high? First time I’ve seen such a thing in my [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

The Sickness

Earth retched and retched: A global heaving, emptying of guts into a barf bowl hastily chucked under chin just before the hurling. Bowl now a-brim with the swishing, sloshing, black-brown green of putridness. Bits of flotsam aswirl in the midst flail, floundering with human limbs — frantic essay at scaling [...]

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labelLiterary Arts Showcase todayJanuary 16, 2022

Tropical Storm

A gathering of darkness. Wind shifts, lifts leaves; plastic bags like kites soar high above the ground. An approaching sound: like the thundering of a thousand horses hooves galloping galloping... Unrelenting, raindrops hammer housetops for miles and miles around... A jagged bolt of light shatters the night. A tree comes [...]

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