Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Friday, July 31, 2026

A ROTTEN TIME

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by Marge Piercy After violent months of war no one can win, men with assault rifles doing what they were built to do, kill many,   world bur...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

A POEM

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by Pulkita Anand   Write a poem using the rhyming of the hollering peacock and deer. Use metaphor to describe their running helter-skelter. ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

FIRE

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by Gil Hoy AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . The hawk Soars high in the sky. Humans Soar higher, Faster,  Farther....
Sunday, October 02, 2022

BLESSING THE ANIMALS

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by David Chorlton On and around The Feast of St. Francis, October 4 this year, many churches organize a Blessing of the Animals to which d o...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

AERIAL VIEW OF CATASTROPHIC FLOODING IN EASTERN KENTUCKY

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by Pauletta Hansel Quicksand, Bulan, Neon, Hiner, Martin, Fisty. This is our place in Hueysville. This was my Mother’s house before she pass...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

IN HOLLOWS OF MY LUNGS

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by Dick Altman Projected to double in size in the coming days, the Calf Canyon / Hermit’s Peak Fire continued to rage on May 2nd in northern...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

HAIKU, UNHELD

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"Two young girls who left their pet rabbit behind, mothers carrying toddlers and luggage—these are some of the more than half million p...
Monday, January 17, 2022

WILD ABOUT WHITE

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by Jen Schneider FIND AN ANIMAL SHELTER IN YOUR AREA sets on. lights bright. everyone wild. wild about white. all bets on betty. betty alway...
Monday, June 21, 2021

FIRE THE NEXT TIME

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by George Salamon “Severe heat and drought the hallmarks of a changing west… Unless people drastically reduce planet-warming emissions, the ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

GAIAN LAMENT

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 by Catherine Gonick Source: The Washington Post             after the hypotheses of James Lovelock   The world is broken, the body of the s...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

COVID ABATTOIR

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by Philip C. Kolin Above: Family members of JBS USA meat packing plant employee Saul Sanchez watch as his casket is lowered during his funer...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

SPACE AVAILABLE

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by Sharon Olson They call it the landscape of fear, the sense that humans are near, ears pricked to catch the menace of car engine...

POWER OUTAGE

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by Laura Rodley No Covid here, just sleeping dog, sleeping cat, no Covid here, doorknobs wiped off, laundry dry, no Covid here, bre...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

ANIMALS IN PARADISE

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by David Spicer “Shelter in Place,” by Christoph Mueller Maybe the meek will inherit the earth. Peacocks strut through the streets...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

FEBRUARY 2020

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by Jennifer Franklin Our long coats are all that separate us from the cold. Half-way around the world, the sky opens to put out wil...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

LIVING THINGS

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by Gil Hoy Until you’ve hurled the spear or triggered the bullet Pulled the jagged blade from still warm flesh and washed Blood ...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

EXCLUSION ZONE

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by Joan Mazza Evolutionary biologist Timothy Mousseau and his colleagues have published 90 studies that prove beyond all doubt the de...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

ENCIRCLING LOOM

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by James Grabill Amniotic drops of prehistoric dew on the canyon rim walls luminesce with light in the brain. Complex otherness flo...
Monday, November 25, 2013

GOVT DISARRAY

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by David Radavich Barnum & Bailey Circus Congress of Freaks c. 1924 Holiday Finds Congress Well Short of Goals  — The landmark ...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

PYROTECHNICS

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by Martin Elster     The heavens effervesced with smoke and noise as spiders, peonies, and palms enthralled the mobs of men and wome...