Showing posts with label orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orange. Show all posts
Sunday, June 22, 2025

CITY OF ANGELS

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by Raymond Nat Turner “There is no power greater than a community discovering what it  cares about.”   —Margaret J. Wheatley, Turning to One...
Friday, January 17, 2025

ANITA BRYANT’S LAST CHRISTMAS WISH

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by Chad Parenteau The problem with wishes  is that anyone can make them. On her last day alive, she  proclaims,  I want the world to become ...
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...
Monday, November 11, 2024

AMERICA’S TRUE FACE

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by  Jon Wesick is orange. It is gallows on the Capitol Mall, a pile of shit on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, a hammer to her husband’s skull. It wear...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

INCIDENT ON SALISBURY PLAIN

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by  Susan J. Wurtzburg   An orange mist; the towering rocks cried, wept  liquid marmalade down their ancient faces. Such desecration. For mo...
Monday, March 20, 2023

THE TALE OF THE HORSE'S ASS

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by  Samantha Pious In times of old (but not so old as Greece or Rome, nor yet, I’m told, so recent as the Renaissance) disaster struck the r...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

BLOOM

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by Annie Cowell Songul Yucesoy's home in Samandag, southern Turkey was destroyed when a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck a month ago. — B...
Monday, August 02, 2021

THE FISH ROTS

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by Bruce Bennett “Since when do Republicans care more about criminals in jail than the cops who put them there? Since when do they coddle do...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

ODE TO THE OCTOBER PUMPKIN

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Earl Wilcox is a regular reader and contributor to The New Verse News.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

THE YEAR 2020 WEST COAST FIRES

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman  An orange sky filled with wildfire smoke hangs above hiking trails at the Limeridge Open Space in Concord, Calif...