Flexin’: Tomorrow & Beyond We’re Flexin’ the concept of time. We are in constant streams of reflection. We reflect upon the past, the “old road” and where we have been. Usually when we reflect upon those old roads we come across “new roads”, the roads we think and hope we should be on; the road where we collide with our destiny and vision the world around us. We imagine...
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  “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” ~ Oscar Wilde   As we write, we express and as we express we teach. Not everyone out there understands the heart of a poet or even breathes the same air but I believe a passion is felt even when the definition of feeling is not understood. I was reading an older poem by one of our members...
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INCREDIBILITY Those “Ready” Feelings    “Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that is was once yours.”  “Relationships are like glass.  Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”              I still remember those first feelings of being in love.  The moment captures you and all you can think about is that special someone.  But I also remember...
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Welcome to the Dark Poetry Explosion with Valentine’s Day quickly approaching what better topic to explore than being the other woman or man.  Before you turn away, just think…some of you may have found yourselves involved with a married man or woman.  Maybe it wasn’t intentional, and by the time you found out the truth, you were already lost in love.  Maybe some are generally unhappy… but ask yourself...
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“The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.” — Amiri Baraka Every generation has a movement and every decade starts a revolution and in poetry every century speaks a new language of expression. Who would’ve thought classic poets such as Walt Whitman, William Blake and Henry David Thoreau would influence a new definition of American...
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I know People I know people Whose lamest words are deeper Than my profoundest thoughts I have read words That make mine….the best of them… Look like child’s scrawl. I have known eagles Who soar faster and further Than I can keep up with As I plod, a dirty faced kid In a field of grass and flowers… The one thing That I can be Accused of… And have been Accused of… And plead guilty And no contest of… Is being… Influenced.
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I could smell the cold outside Filling me up from a secluded couch The unwanted silence creeping through Desolate hallways and empty rooms The world seems still-life from my window Though the wind moves evergreen branches With a sense of aplomb I want to hide from everything But nothing moves me to take action Sitting here A victim of my own dismissal Leaving a void within each breath Noticed by the one who holds my heart Only she can sense such things But sometimes love is not enough To...
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Elephant bar   there is an elephant bar along a salty rim in Santa Barbara a port shaped building in disguise palms trees with pitch fingers plucking out against 1:30 black lamp posts standing in their metal helmets pagan samarais with white hot eyes could’ve been the ecstasy making my furry skin crawl throwing myself up in a face down ditch a barefoot bar wench brought a pint of Fat Tire with alabaster skin (frozen mug not wench) a tap of hazy drum interrupted my stare its mad language...
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The Climb   I stand at the bottom of the mountain, Looking up, my mind so uncertain. It is so high, the way looks treacherous, Steep, almost unnavigable.   Yet this is a journey I must make, For to live s to climb. To climb is to live, for in not climbing I would not be, not exist.   I start, slow and unsteady at first, Gaining skill and knowledge as I go. Still unsure, but not quiet so much, Not as I was as I made the beginning....
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