Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Friday, August 22, 2025

THE LARGE ONES HAVE JOINED I.C.E.

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by Michelle DeRose My grade school had no gymnasium. The auditorium hosted PE class on rain-darkened days or those slick  with ice, the low ...
Friday, August 15, 2025

INDIVISIBLE, WE STAND

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by  Darrell Petska Have you noticed how crowded America’s thin air has become? Now it’s homeless humans joining immigrant humans, LGBTQIA h...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

JULIO

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by Judy Strang Screenshot provided by the poet’s son from the video he recorded. My son told me  he’d put on his vest and  hooked the phone ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

THE INJUSTICE THAT SCREAMS

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by  Chinedu lhekoronye  They say we are free— But chains still rattle in our dreams. Not of iron, but of law, Not of shackles, but of scheme...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

HOW WE ROLL

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Prelude to prayer and action by Darrell Petska AI-generated gif by NightCafé for The New Verse News . Killing. Maiming. Forever grieving. Th...
Friday, June 13, 2025

CONNECTING THE DISCONNECT

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by Dana Yost “A  strange unrest hovers over the nation: /  This is the last dance.” —Robert Bly, “ Unrest ” I wake to the harshest of dreams...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

CUAUHTÉMOC

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by  Jennifer Hernandez For the crew members who lost their lives in the tragic crash of the Mexican tall ship into the Brooklyn Bridge. The ...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

DECLARATION OF A TERRORIST

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by Taylor Norris Knee on a neck,  Match poised to strike, With a final exhale,  Flames did ignite.    A firestorm erupted, Fervent movement ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

WHAT POPE LEO MIGHT BE THINKING

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by Lynne Barnes Your mother was ill and away when you were very little. Did this mean that one of your foundation beams was laid out as clay...

A RETRO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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by Ralph La Rosa With a nod to Wordsworth’s “ The World Is Too Much With Us” Group of Breaker boys. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.  Photo...