Conditional Love
By Carolyn Martin — I’m conditioned to follow Rumi’s advice to sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when you arrive with the latest
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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
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- Aug 13
LOVE IN THE TIME OF 40 ROSEBUSHES
By Elizabeth Lewis — There are things you cannot know about life, with its relentless cycles and imperatives until you have been burned to
- Jul 26
INTERTWINED
By Faith Canright — Your flavor of easy lies, lover of my deepest heart. Our fragrance of stolen time. Passion grows in lush green eyes
- May 12
Mom
By Carl Scharwath — Dim light paints the evening scene. She sits alone, a single mom with burdens akin to shadows, always behind her in
- May 2
A thousand small happinesses a day
By Loretta Iwaniw-Horne — We're talking about nothing in particular. I tell him that I stuffed up my knee. It needs surgery, but I don't
- Apr 22
Under the moon
By Principe Guity Jr — Kissing under the ascending moon as it climbs from behind is the lover's dream. It streams in my mind, as if I had a
- Mar 14
A Love Prayer By An Unbeliever
By Royal Rhodes — Help me see the stars, remembered fire, seraphic furnaces that showed our fault, when chance or fate, or even our desire,
- Feb 18
A CROW'S WOMAN
By John Grey — The crows won't let me go to sleep. Aamong them—who would have thought it?—was Suzanne. And in Providence? And my once and
- Feb 7
Old apple tree & compass points
By Colin Ian Jeffery — There is an apple tree where I often go and sit beneath and if I listen very heard, I hear my brother's happy cries
- Dec 18, 2023
Perhaps
By Holly Payne-Strange — Perhaps I am not in love with you. Perhaps I am enthralled, dangerously besotted and beautifully dedicated. Maybe
- Nov 14, 2023
Your nectar
By Sandip Saha — I am amazed in your beauty. It is the touch stone to forget the predicament in the well of life in which I have fallen
- Oct 3, 2023
When I Hold Her
By Bethany Jarmul — When I hold her, I’ve felt this feeling before—read a poem so poignant I wanted to burn it so I could eat it, filling my
- Sep 10, 2023
THE KNOXVILLE HYATT
By John Richmond — Did this, you might ask make their “togetherness” complicated? Not exactly. Maybe a little foggy, but not so much that th
- Aug 29, 2023
Love is ...
By Britta Benson — Love’s a choice every day. You can stay or go, call it life, call it quits. It’s a long term project, and neither for the
- Aug 15, 2023
Blindness and Love
By Hector Rodriguez — Living in darkness. I’ve yearned for closeness. Not seeing has not limited my search for love. While I can't see, I'm
- Aug 12, 2023
Our Personal Wedding Vows
By Philip Hughes-Luing — You are the first person with whom I will share a joy or a sorrow, a fear or a conviction. You are the first person
- Jul 27, 2023
Chasing The Good Life
By Glenn Marchand — You come forth like thunder—beauty of mystery—astrology and focus. Loving has been shallow, lethal at points, dragons
- Jul 3, 2023
Clothes Call
By Allan Lake — I give you avalanches of love, attempt your language (a marathon with hurdles), wait for you to commit as if I were a
- Jun 27, 2023
My Mother the Car
By Phill LoFaso — Heavy rain hits the windscreen. The streets are hard to see. Tall oaks lean in. Untold threats unseen. The unknown and
- Jun 18, 2023
Love is...a verb
By Darleen Hunzinger — How do you love someone and cringe at the sound of their voice all at the same time...When that person has leapt from
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