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Mr. Anonymous by Darrell Lindsey

He changes a flat tire for a stranger on a desert highway, leaves a fifty dollar tip for a waitress with four kids and an unemployed husband, listens to a veteran in a convenience store parking lot…

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Richard J. Greene 20h ago

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Preview

The temperature was over sixty todaythis seventeenth of March.The Y, where I went for my dutiful exercise,was unusually emptybut traffic was heavy on the nearby bike pathand on my way homeI passed …

Richard Greene

JumblePublishing 1d ago

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Winter Poem in the Fan Palm Oasis by Charlene Langfur

Before first light I imagine how people lived here once, wrapped in blankets in their thatched palm huts. I listen to the rustle of the palm leaves in the soft wind and I think it has a human touch…

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Arifstodon 1d ago

Morning blooms whisper in gentle light,
Petals waking from dreams of night,
In every bud, a hope takes flight—
Love begins with dawn so bright.
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JumblePublishing 2d ago

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Wasp by Dottie Joslyn

Her iridescent wings unfold, and she glides toward me, eyeing me with her green eyes, then floats away, then back, never far away. I lean in and look her in the eye, and my world shrinks to the gre…

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C. M. Rosens 2d ago

RE: https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/15/author-spotlight-meet-a-poet-pixiewithpens/

New Spotlight up for Pixie, a poet based in Sweden but writing in English. Their new collection, Poetry F☆cks, is out now.

You can either read the post on Mastodon, or head to cmrosens.com to read the original.

Follow the quoted account & subscribe to notifications to get posts and spotlights weekly, although pixie is the only poetry spotlight for this year.

Check out cmrosens.com/author-spotlight-series for more poets!

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JumblePublishing 3d ago

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The Smiling Man by Russel G. Winick

Though you always see him cheerful Spreading humor far and wide, From that vantage point may you conclude He has no other side? While the smiles are so ubiquitous The laughter unrestrained, Can you…

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Richard J. Greene 3d ago

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Garden Party

Though spring is yeta few more days awayseasons are not mathematical.This day was mildand when I stepped outside at eveningrice paper cloudslit by the setting sunhung overheadlike lanterns in a gar…

Richard Greene

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Autumn by Nur Turkmani

We stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the kitchen. Everything yellow. The trees, the music you chose. We laughed. We peeled garlic and baked potatoes. Some afternoons are soft this way. We miss them as …

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JumblePublishing 5d ago

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Blue Topography by Judith H. Montgomery

Once a seamless landscape—dorsum, sweet-skinned reverse to my creased and callused palm. No more. Late sun lights, heightens the bulge of blue-starved roads as they rise above the frail map of my s…

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