I never thought to put coins on your eyes,/ shroud the mirrors in black,/
freeze the hands on the clocks— Continue reading
Tag Archives: poetry
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Jack Powers
“The Inuit do not have fifty words for snow, but the Greeks had eight words
for love” Continue reading
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 Shae Lee
been saying hey to tenderness lately
when it arrives all sticky and drooping
with heavy uncertainty riding shotgun
hollowing out a cavern in my chest
again Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Carol Coven Grannick
They wouldn’t let me near you,
their ring around your bedside tight
hungry wolves on a dark navy night Continue reading
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 