Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Friday, February 14, 2025

IN CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND YOUR CONTROL

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by Sara Sarna "Broken Heart — Bleeding Heart" by Michal Boubin You feel the cracking. Vow to be a gap-filler, leak-plugger, like t...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

MUSEUM OF CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY

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by Kenneth Arthur AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . When we paid the entrance fee the sign promised “a glimpse int...

THE EMPEROR’S NEW SKIN

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by Dana Wall AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . At night, the spray tan must fade like sunset on sandstone, reveali...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

GIRLY BOY

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by Jean Voneman Mikhail  AI-generated graphic by NightCafe for The New Verse News . My little boy blue,  as a child you wore  girl-pink, not...
Thursday, June 08, 2023

WHILE READING THE GUARDIAN, I RECOGNIZE A FAMILIAR NARRATIVE

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  by Bonnie Naradzay A three-year-old Palestinian boy has died in hospital, four days after he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers whil...
Friday, May 06, 2022

HIS ABORTION POEM

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by Dick Altman Source: “Abortion” by John Bartlow Martin from the May 20, 1961, issue of the Saturday Evening Post . he’s the golden boy of ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

AMERICAN SENTENCE / AMERICAN SENTENCING

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by Erin Murphy The boy was three and a half feet tall, his black wrists too small for handcuffs. Author’s Note: My poem is wri...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

GUYS LIKE US

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by Alan Walowitz On April 28, 1973, a 10 year-old was executed on a street in South Jamaica, Queens. His name was Clifford Glover. He ...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

WASHED

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by Cally Conan-Davies The full horror of the human tragedy unfolding on the shores of Europe was brought home on Wednesday as images o...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

GOING TO CLASS BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGES

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by Anuja Ghimire Two teenage Nepalese schoolgirls suffered burn injuries after a boy hurled acid at them early Sunday, police said. ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

HALLOWEEN PARTY

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by Laura Rodley Cut from reams of white satin sprang Lawrence of Arabia, my son Joseph fenc- ing with a sword made of rough...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

THE KING OF CHICKEN STREET

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by Rick Gray Chicken Street, Kabul. Source: Streets of Afghanistan Project Not yet fourteen, he swings on donated crutches like an ...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

AWOL

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by Rick Gray Kabul sunrise. Image source: Panoramio In a locked-down house of disconnection, this is the hidden room of yellow exc...