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    Modern Haiku – Vol. 1

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    Survivor’s Pledge – A Free-Verse Poem

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    Adrift in the cold empty of space, white dots twinkling amidst the black, a ship floated as a carcass would down river. Its single ...
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    A dying fire burns in the hearth, grey smoke unfurling and twisting into the open air. Dust particles alight beneath the breaking of a ...
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