poetry – Page 9 – Headline Poetry & Press

12/06/201912/15/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Weekly Feature | Fragile by Gayle J. Greenlea

photo : Peter Shefler, visual artist and poet We collide in a tender fugue reeds with slender necks jostling against each other by wind and …

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12/04/201912/05/2019 by: Cory Steel-Omeara

I am: Always

Feather reign loft, the railing to soar against; implicit above all else; pilgrims rain-strike, stressing a pause) They flock like wallpaper, red roofs/partly-cloudy [My likeness, …

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12/04/201912/05/2019 by: David O'Nan

Some Season Like Christmas

December 2016, My father Peter O’Nan had been in a Veterans Center for several months. The whole year his health had been declining. He had …

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12/04/201912/06/2019 by: Lori Morgan Flood

BREAKING NEWS! The Royal Middle Finger

Thank you, Royal Prince Charles the Brave for the posture of your middle one held high, in the receiving line. Thank you, Margaret the Rebel, …

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12/04/201912/05/2019 by: Ziggy Dicks

Secret

Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash It nestled in the grey of his skein knotted in wet brain every new memory layered on top coating the irritation a …

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11/29/201912/05/2019 by: Jamie Graham

Dormant Heroes

Stray dogs get taken someplace safe. Good boys and girls behind bars. Two bowls per day, barking for change – a kind human …

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11/17/201901/13/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Giuliani: Four Charges. Cohn: Six Decades. | Editorial

CW: Mentioned is Epstein and Roy Cohn’s pedophilia rings and the Catholic sex abuse cover up is briefly mentioned.

Giuliani, his henchmen, Trump, the Cohn playbook. This time is not one event. It’s complexity reaches back to McCarthy’s Red Scare and the emboldened powerful doing harm to the innocent. This piece, and the notes below, ask you to consider “Is today part of a long timeline or an ugly human habit that is rearing it’s head again?”

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10/27/201912/18/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

you should have asked #MEtoo | Editorial

by Hokis, senior editor – origninally published Sept 14, 2019

Preface: Note From Hers’ Warrior
I wish they would had named

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10/19/201901/17/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

#TheyAllKnew | waking in the center of The Dark Triad

by Hokis, first published 10.19.19

in grief, we rebel against oursouls
towards the Narcissist’s obtuse angle. we lite the gas
stove. invite the dark to our Thanks-
giving table, offer hIM a crown.

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10/06/201901/12/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

BREAKING NEWS! Sick & Sold | Editorial

inspiration for this poem: #PerryMadeMeDoIt by Hokis, Founder & Senior Editor Scary Perry,Mandered Gerry,Fired Ukrainian Dignitary: Have we hungourselves on ourage-old tree of historyin the …

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10/05/201910/06/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor