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My green throat has turned into a garden I have to be silent a lot I have to drink a lot so that the trees grow I have to breathe quietly so as not to frighten the birds I don't want to scare those who are happy
©2023 Gerry Shepherd
painting
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damp forest how does the butterfly come out heat from the clip
©2023 Miroslava Panayotova
photograph
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Shh shh she she she along with your hoarse cough Leaves fall to the ground and you don't understand Will tomorrow knock on your door again morning…
©2023 Tina Rimbaldo
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explosions instead of music death instead of sleep butterflies everywhere butterflies
©2023 Miroslava Panayotova
digital art
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A huge bird with black glasses would have arrived And taught us all to fly We've never been here anyway
©2023 Tina Rimbaldo
©2023 Mykyta Ryzhykh
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Mykyta Ryzhykh…
…is the winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests Vytoky, Shoduarivska Altanka, Khortytsky dzvony; laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, Lyceum, Twelve, named after Dragomoshchenko. Finalist of the Crimean ginger competition. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in many journals: Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, TheNewVerse News, Acorn haiku Journal, The Wise Owl, Verse-Virtual, Scud, Fevers of the Mind, LiteraryYard, PLUM TREE TAVERN, ITERANT, Fleas on the Dog, The Tiger Moth Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Angel Rust, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, The Crank, Chronogram, The Antonym, the6ress zine, Monterey Poetry Review, PPP Ezine.
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