I never thought to put coins on your eyes,/ shroud the mirrors in black,/
freeze the hands on the clocks— Continue reading
Tag Archives: Original Poetry
An Excerpt from Linda McCauley Freeman’s debut poetry collection, The Family Plot
A grey squirrel sits where the tree house was.
Broken slats nailed to the bark hang loose as if now
even the tree allowed no girls to ascend.
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by AG Compaine
Bobbi’s petticoat on a hanger
on her doorknob
bodice smooth as silk. Nobody’s looking
I strip off my shirt and pants slip it on
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Jane Barnes
O children I forgot to have you
Didn’t want to be a bad parent
Like they who always said they’d
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Donna Henderson
Once, I was your other heartbeat, your deepest
center. You were the world I was and knew.
After—all your life—I thought I was unlike
you: the you I liked, and otherwise.
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Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Muriel Nelson
Spring has shifted the year’s
Uneven balance and the light
Spreads even as dawn adjusts… Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Mark Goldstein
“Soon, several hundred sated, well-lubricated,
Turkish towel donning friends or strangers
will begin to filter out from the labyrinth
of thin-walled, cramped, private cubicles.” Continue reading
Bloom 