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Most Recent Submissions
The Week of 10/12 - 10/18/08
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Submissions Published - 10/12/08
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Jopan - NEW MEMBER
“Itsssccccold.....”
“Close Your Eyes”
“As I Was Sleeping”
Jude ForÉse - Page 4
“the companionship of aloneness”
Joyce Johnson - Page 2
“Bowl of Cherries”
“Birthday Blues”
“Birds of a Feather”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“Beautiful Baby”
“Beauty”
“Birds Have Beaks”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 12
“Sleepless Nights”
“Glory”
“Valley of Eagles”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 9
“Proclamations”
“Eyes of Forever”
“Imaginings”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Faith”
Scarlet - Page 7
“One True Sentence”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 3
“Just Be Yourself”
“Honor Yourself”
“I Will Be There”
Dale Clark - Page 6
“Random Thoughts”
“Blinded”
Cathy Brady - Page 3
“Knights of Camelot”
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Submissions Published Previous Weeks
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Jeanne Jordan
“A Day in the Life of a Soul with Sensory Overload”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“My Colors”
“Sunset Melodies”
“Thoughts”
Julianza (Julie) K. Shavin
“Abraham”
“Eclipse”
“Black Snow”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
The Journey (cinquain)
Marge Tindal - Page 2
“Gentle Windl”
“Chasing Shadows”
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Marge Tindal’s Poetigraphic Garden
“Royalty Grand”
“Glorious Array”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“Torn”
“Tricentennial Reunion”
“The Lost Poem”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Images”
“Solitude”
“Place Of My Heart's Contentment”
Shannon O’Leary
“The American Dream”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“Alone”
“Box”
“Casa de Nuez”
Julianza (Julie) K. Shavin
“A Swan in Antarctica”
“Apotheosis”
“Geometry “
Jude ForÉse - Page 4
“fancy this”
Richard L. Cederberg - Page 6
“Nevermore To Grieve”
Sheena Roberts - Page 3
“Lullaby”
“Black”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“night lights...”
Annabel Sheila
“Grandfather And The St. John’s Regatta”
“Parenting Skills”
“Chivalry”
Thomas C. Lugovoy
“Born”
“Would you cry?”
“Simple Words”
Annabel Sheila
“A Horrible Legacy”
“The Cat And The Cursor”
“Essence Beyond Grande”
Theolinda - Page 5
“The Haunted”
Karen Vanderlaan - Page 6
“We Held the Future”
“Hold Her Hand”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“The Saddest Sound”
“Chrysalis”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“The Art and Nature of Falling in Love”
“Wanderings”
“Morning Moments”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“BisonBurger”
“Fly with Angels”
“Poets”
Jim Morton
“At the End of the Evening”
Thomas C. Lugovoy
“Daddy”
“Peace”
“Fright”
Irene “Nikki” Koufala
“Holy Touch”
Johnny Diaz
“Lady in Red”
“Her Garage Door is Broken”
“The Couch Beneath the Rose”
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 5
”Shadowlands”
“Drifters”
“One”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“Bentley”
“Feast”
“Priestess”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Winter Has Come”
“Come Walk With Me”
“The Flowers of the Fall”
Marge Tindal - Page 2
“Life Leaf In Fall”
“Lift The Sigh”
“Sometimes A Sigh”
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Marge’s Poetigraphic Garden
“Sistered Beauties”
“Elegance In Bloom”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“my country...”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“Mirrors”
“Days”
“I Cannot See Until I Hear”
Scarlet - Page 7
“Christy”
Johnny Diaz
“Will Love Only Me”
“Shattered”
“One Pair of Pants”
Sheena Roberts - Page 3
“Desires”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 3
“A Place at My Table”
“The Artist”
“Forget Me Not”
Irene “Nikki” Koufala
“Blue Eyes”
“Blue Eyes Rise – Part II “
“I Confess”
Paul Curtis - Page 10
“Hotel Paradiso”
“Granddad’s Glorious Harvest”
“My Love”
Samuel E. Stone - Page 6
“Traitors Among Us”
Karen Vanderlaan - Page 6
“She Wants to Wear a Pretty Dress”
“Bony Butts”
Richard L. Cederberg - Page 6
“Loves Conundrum”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“Color Me”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“Ain't it Awful”
“Candle”
“Mayor”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“Marita”
“Vase of Tears”
“Anyway”
Johnny Diaz
“One World”
“Traces of Her”
“Lust at First Sight”
Joyce Johnson - Page 2
“Alpenglow”
“My Album of Memories”
“In the News”
Delma Luben - Page 4
“Linguistic Failings”
“Aging Gracefully”
“That I My Serve Thee”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“Come Back!!”
Thomas C. Lugovoy
“It’s Okay Pop Pop”
“Strength”
Charlotte Ann Zuzak
“Seasonal Charisma”
“Voyage of Seasons”
“New Life”
Bill Cottringer - Page 2
“A Voice From the Grave”
Anthony Watkins - Page 5
“Adjusting”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Sail Mates”
“Memories of the Day”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Vivid Vibrancy”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“North Cemetery”
Karen Vanderlaan - Page 6
“Stand Up”
“A Soft Place to Land”
Marie Caldwell
“Nobody listens to crushed hearts”
“Walked out”
“I remember that run”
Timea Szucs - Page 2
“Illusive”
“Move on”
“Losing grip”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“In The Concrete Of Life”
Thinley Tharchen - Page 2
“Cold war”
“Two converses”
“Freedom celebration”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“Memories of Life”
“Bright Child/Dark Child”
“The Beach”
Irene “Nikki” Koufala
“Another World”
“Lost Cause”
Jeanne Jordan
“Night Sweats”
Thomas Lugovoy
“Inner Beauty”
To a friend “This too will pass”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 14
tanka (4)
“Inescapable”
“Somnolence”
** “The Surplus” **
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Autumn Tears”
Scarlet - Page 7
“The Burly Man”
Ted L Glines - Page 3
“The End”
“Warrior”
“Iraqi Knight”
Thomas C. Lugovoy
“Divorce”
“Daughter”
“How I love thee”
Samuel E. Stone - Page 6
“Moments”
“Shadows”
“World of Prey”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“crushed...”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Cause of Flight”
Johnny Diaz
“Supervisor Johnny”
“One of Those Days”
“Schadenfreude” (senryu)
Marge Tindal - Page 2
“Unchained”
“Easy Remembering”
“Where Do Lonely Hearts Go?”
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Marge’s Poetigraphic Garden
“Flowering Passion”
“Raspberry Sunblaze”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Rebecca”
“Black Rose”
“Four Minutes Til Seven”
Theolinda - Page 5
“It Waits in the Shadows”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Epiphany”
“The River”
“Darkness of the Night”
Lisa Lindsey - Page 5
“Somewhere in Lackawanna Valley”
Johnny Diaz
“The Intimidator”
“Endlessly Pine”
“I Want it and I Want it Now”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 14
“October”
“The Survivors”
“Her”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“Angina Attack”
Thomas C. Lugovoy
“Ocean”
“To Love”
“Together We Stand”
Johnny Diaz
“Dark Sunglasses” (senryu)
“Mean Eyes”
“You Give”
Maria Caldwell
“four children, three adults”
“my name is teddy”
“Suzy was only five mommy”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Schneekugel”
“Collections”
“Idol”
Marge Tindal - Page 2
“ABC's Of Haiku-Senryu”
“It Really Was An F-ing Day!”
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Marge’s Poetigraphic Garden
“Golden Shower of Flower”
“Azalea Beauty”
D. S. Mullis - Page 2
“Words”
“A Man After God's Heart”
“Tell Him Who You Are”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Not Quite”
Jim Morton
“Fragments”
“Sierra”
“I'll Give You Autumn...”
Richard L. Cederberg - Page 6
“LAMENT for an Artistic Savant”
Lisa Lindsey - Page 5
“Old St. Augustine”
Irene “Nikki” Koufala
“Me”
“Perfect”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“A Need Commanded”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“Why I Love Fall or Why I Fall in Love”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“The Goodbye Man”
Johnny Diaz
“Mushy”
“A Lady as She”
“Chariot of Red”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“AfterLife Insurance”
“Binky”
“Goddess Man”
D. S. Mullis
“Sacrifice”
“How Far?”
“The Stirring”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“Looking for a Place to Fit”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“State Funereal?”
“Drowning”
“Lemon Tree…very pretty…”
Jeanne Jordan
*** “My Dead Emotions Awaken to Say...” *** (contains adult language)
“My Humble Home”
“Beach Boy Seeks Surfer Girl”
Paul Curtis - Page 10
“Concorde”
“Tresspassed”
“Compensation Culture”
Jim Morton
“This Drunken Wind”
“Read This Poem Slowly”
“Old Friends”
Johnny Diaz
“My Hero”
“Our World”
“Window Pain”
“Hugs” (senryu)
Aleta Grimball - Page 3
“Love Version 3.0”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Bits of Life”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Given”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Wooly-Booger”
“The Lost Poem”
“PreacherMan”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Lonely Heart”
Delma Luben - Page 4
“Missing the Glory”
“Row for It”
Santosh Kumar
haiku (6)
Irene “Nikki” Koufala
“Loyalty”
“Takers and Givers”
“Between the Wall”
Theolinda - Page 5
“Gator Caller”
Ted L. Glines - Page 2
* “Holy Rape” *
“Bard”
“Cop's Song”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Special Delivery”
Jim Morton
“Dancers”
“Into My Heart”
“Wind Of Change”
Johnny Diaz
“Shades of the Past”
“Love” (senryu)
“One” (senryu)
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“Birthday”
“A Norwegian Folktale”
“Vanity Seeks”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“Stay True to Your Heart”
“Friendship”
“The Boat”
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 4
“Passing in the Night”
“Labyrinths of Time”
“If”
Marge Tindal - Page 2
“Writer's Moon”
“Windows”
“Soqwu Disgitisdi Gvdi”
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Marge’s Poetigraphic Garden
“Glorious Glory Of - 1”
“Glorious Glory Of - 2”
Johnny Diaz
“Self-Inflicted”
“We Reap What We Sow”
“Ribbons and Lace”
Jim Morton
* “Something about you” *
“Sidewalk Shadows”
“weight”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Love is like...”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“Diet Business”
“The Heat Before The Rain”
tanka (1)
“Farm Life 1950”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“No Different”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Blowing Papers”
“Hunter”
“Pulaski”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“My Sunshine Haiku”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“A Small Town”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Passing Storm”
“Coven”
“Rough Rap”
Jim Morton
“Autumn Remembers”
“Changing Sky”
“Concentric Circles”
Maribeth Schlobohm - Page 5
Fresh Cut Flowers—Fresh Cut
Fresh Cut Flowers Re-Cut
Fresh Cut Flowers
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Old Plow”
“To Walk In Rain”
“Mourning Trees”
Delma Luben - Page 4
“The Running Connection”
“Public Relations”
Joyce Johnson - Page 2
“A Nation Weeps”
“It Was an Ordinary Day”
“The Quiet Ones”
Richard Lloyd Cederberg - Page 6
“At the Bereket Kabab House”
Georg E Mateos
“If You Look in the Mirror“
“The Rain and The Lord”
“Secret”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“From The Song “We’re Family”
“An Actor’s Cook”
“Beloved Home Town”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Farewell Songs”
“Storm Warnings”
“Ghost of the Garden”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“Doodles and the Dew Faeries (part 1)”
“Doodles and the Dew Faeries (part 2)”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“The Best Gift”
“This Journey Into Night”
“The Labors of Miss Lemon”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“When Sleeping Beauty Sleeps”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“The Heart Tattoo”
Paul Curtis - Page 10
“Hospital Canteen”
“Taken Back”
“I Don’t Believe It”
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 4
“Finding You”
“Winds of Time”
“A Restless Soul”
Will Patrick - Page 5
“Autumnal Equinox”
“I’m Waiting for the Words”
“In the Land of the Words”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Spoken”
Richard Lloyd Cederberg - Page 6
“A Blank Space Waiting”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“Beauty”
Ted L Glines - Page 2
“Haunting”
“Pets Welcome”
“Woeful Joe”
Aleta Grimball - Page 3
“First Day”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“Death of My Mother”
“When Sarah Sings - to Sarah Brightman”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
** “Sex and the Older Man” **
* “No Love for Granddads” *
“The Past’s Burden”
tanka (2)
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 4
“This Thing We Do”
“End of an Affair and Oreos”
“Ribbons of Time”
Myrna D. Badgerow - Page 9
“Ghost”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Ready to Fly”
Ted L Glines
“AnkleBiter”
“Dragon Rap”
“MiddleEastTourism”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Equinox”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“Let Me Be.....”
“Make Me Smile”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“Old Farmer Fee”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“The Promotion”
“Breaking Point”
“Summer Paradise”
Joyce Johnson
“Farmer Joe”
“First Robin”
“Faithful Mate”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“Addiction”
“Brides”
“The Room”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Gifts of Autumn”
“Lonely Vigil”
“Green World”
Ted L Glines
“SpiderWoman”
“Offering”
“Taking”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Dreams”
Lisa Lindsey - Page 5
“The Last Poem”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Eternal Heart”
“The Solitude and Silence of Volition”
“Deserved”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“For a Moment”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“Heart on Sleeve”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“Forever Enchanted by Josephine”
“Cinnamon Candy Apples”
“Cotton Candy”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Deep Breaths”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Seen”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“Wedding in Paris”
“The Breath”
“Harmony”
Ted L Glines
“Chasms and Bridges”
“Lovecraft”
Lisa Lindsey - Page 5
“South Padre Island”
Sheena Roberts - Page 3
“Hope”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“Love Is”
“Seeing Beyond Yourself”
“The Unicorn”
Scarlet - Page 6
“Afternoons With a Hippie”
Felix L. Perry - Page 8
“The Scottish Exile”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“The Other Lover”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“Vast” (haiku)
Delma Luben - Page 4
“Love on Ice”
“A Golden Key”
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 4
“Calliope Weeps”
“Reach for the Moon”
“Louise’s Secret”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“The Ebbing Years”
“Frosty Morn”
“Enchanted Summers”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“Collisions” (haiku)
Scarlet - Page 6
“Butterscotch Lifesavers”
Theolinda - Page 5
“Not Quite Ready” (tanka)
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Not Quite Autumn”
Eugenia Pantecan - Page 2
“A Fair Pretender”
“Lasting Mystery”
“In and Out”
Kathryn Gabrielle - Page 2
“Keepsakes”
“Wherever I Am”
“Life”
Ted L Glines
“A Rock”
“Boneless Chicken”
“Nope”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“A Father’s Lament”
“The Doubt”
“The Compensation Racket”
sayings (3)
Lisa Lindsey - Page 5
“Ten Years After”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“In Search of the Top Quark”
Delma Luben - Page 4
“On Choosing ...”
“Ode to Cut Flowers”
Joyce Johnson
“New Great Granddaughter”
“Hannah's World”
“Hanging In There“
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Revealed”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“Dance Upon the Moonlight”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“How Safe Is Your Child?”
“The Entrapment”
“The Big Chill”
tanka (2)
Question (1)
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“Seasons”
Dale Clark - Page 5
“The Human Condition”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“A New School Year”
Leslie Ann Arbogast - Page 8
“My Dog Leo” (acrostic)
“Stress and Misery”
Kathryn Gabrielle
“A Teardrop of Love”
“Stop and Listen”
Ted L Glines
“Buccaneers”
“Mother Cries”
“Throne Song” (lyrics)
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Water Lily”
“Pond at the Park”
“Daughter of the North”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Greater Still”
Paul Curtis - Page 10
“He Believes in You”
“Infinite Time”
“Breathlessly”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“Sweet Ted” (limerick)
“Palm Beach Woman” (limerick)
Karen Vanderlaan - Page 6
“The Future”
“You Don't Need to Tell Me”
“Fix-A-Flat”
Joyce Johnson
“My Offering”
“Contemplating”
“Captivated”
Will Patrick - Page 5
“Parts of Speech”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“Two Dozen Years”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Harvest”
“Red Leaves”
“Mist Rising”
Kimmy Van Kooten - Page 4
“I Hear in Color”
Ted L Glines
“Vinny the Vulture”
“Postal”
Karen O’Leary - Page 4
“cars...”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4
“Of Their Own”
James West - Page 2
“The Spirit Part”
Jan Oscar Hansen - Page 13
“The Fingerprinted”
tanka (3)
senryu (4)
“The Nuisance”
Charlotte Ann Zuzak
“September 11, 2006”
“September Nightmare”
Michael Mack - Page 11
“Find the Nest - 09/11/01”
“Stages of Life”
“If I Were Someone Else’s Man”
Marcia Miller-Twiford - Page 4
“In the Face of Evil” (the 9/11/2001 world tragedy)
“The Day After 9/11”
Wendy Baral Cooper
“I Forgive You”
“Memories”
“My Son”
Georg E Mateos
“A Candle”
“After I Go, She Will Be Left All Alone…”
“My Southern Belle”
Ted L Glines
“Clicks”
“AlleyCat”
“Haunted”
Betty Lou Hebert - Page 11
“Arrowheads”
“Autumn Waiting”
“Owls Calling”
Laura J. Dean - Page 4
“The Colors of God”
Richard J. Huggins - Page 8
“I Thought Once Upon a Dream”
Theolinda - Page 5
“Too Late”
Eric Paul McCarty - Page 4< | 
