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Come Morning / Follow / From Here, John Grey Jul 1992

Come Morning / Follow / From Here, John Grey

The Mythic Circle

Come Morning: Dawn breaks, fog lifts, the forest reclaims its green, sun bums off mist Follow: The car with the bumper sticker that read "There's no place like Narnia" pulled up beside me at the red light From Here: The Great Pyramid rises from the Plains of Giza, taunting my callow brain with the superiority of its geometry, the brazenness of its secrets.


Three Strangers / A Fable, Allison Marshall, Berni Phillips Jul 1992

Three Strangers / A Fable, Allison Marshall, Berni Phillips

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Three Strangers: There were once three strangers upon this earth Whose odd gifts of power brought little mirth. A Fable: "'If you build it, he will come.'" Zounds! I had the most extraordinary sense of deja vu watching Field of Dreams.


Gossamer: A Modern Myth, Judith Anderson Stuart Jul 1992

Gossamer: A Modern Myth, Judith Anderson Stuart

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Not long ago, the Sisters spoke the fabric of their latest whim: one spun, another wove the thread


Martian Temples / Gardeners, Mary E. Choo Jul 1992

Martian Temples / Gardeners, Mary E. Choo

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Martian Temples: across the sere red plain the monoliths are drawn in purple angry gold Gardeners: high in my city's streaming towers the wind pipes echoes


Venus Rising / Wolfrunner, Mary E. Choo Jul 1992

Venus Rising / Wolfrunner, Mary E. Choo

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Venus Rising: my fascination with fire leads me to consider your potent vision pinned candle-bright to a saffron sky Wolfrunner: dark heart engendered lord you are the keeper of midnight trees


Sonnet For Star-Eyes, David Lenander Jul 1992

Sonnet For Star-Eyes, David Lenander

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Grandma's story, star-spangled high, Or so she promised, when she told the tale Of Pegasus, but every night we'd fail To find his constellation in the sky.


Lumen, Allison Marshall Jul 1992

Lumen, Allison Marshall

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If I were to enter A child's imagination…


To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

To Christopher Columbus, Gwenyth E. Hood

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I wonder at the fervor of your passion, Your dreams o f glory, gold and splendid wealth


Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood Oct 1991

Eleventh Hour / Autumn Cleaning, Gwenyth E. Hood

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Eleventh Hour: / climbed down the dark and jagged path leading on, down down, in the shadowed lands. Autumn Cleaning: The autumn wind is sighing in the branches to lift dead leaves and carry to the ground


The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The White Queen Soliloquy, Lala Heine-Koehn

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A trumpet wakes her from her sleep. The long wailing notes disturb the heavy folds o f her bed curtains


The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

The Puppets / The Death Of Sun And Moon, Lale Heine-Koehn, Janet P. Reedman

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The Puppets: The woman behind me is cutting a tree to crush me and if it must, his hand, holding mine. The Death of Sun and Moon: The Moon stood in the shroud of night, a crone who waned and sank billowing pale deathlight


On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman Oct 1991

On The Walls / Hero To His Captive Elfbride / Asphodel, Janet P. Reedman

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On the Walls: Under the shade of shattered walls, Remembered lives blow like dreams Hero to His Captive Elfbride: Dawn's light glitters on faded mountain tarn Asphodel: Caught in the shadows the keep cast


Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Brides Of Sealmen / Rites Of Union, Janet P. Reedman, David Sparenberg

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Brides of Sealmen: Loneliness breeds strange fancies in girls grown too old for love Rites of Union: Am I b ut one rhythm? Are my rhythms not multiple as air's motions?


Childhood's End, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Childhood's End, K. V. Skene

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Each yesterday Ended when, quite magically, The streetlights blinked, and once again Bewitched the night.


Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene Oct 1991

Confessions Of A Dragon Lady / Windbound, K. V. Skene

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Confessions of A Dragon Lady: Before I knew the wisdom of this world I felt the ebb and flow of secret tides. Windbound: Back of the North Wind, Under a pallid sun, all life Is permafrosted.


Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg Oct 1991

Exile And Mending, David Sparenberg

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Peace to you, Shulammite maiden! Waiting tears at the heart of hope.


Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach Oct 1991

Il-Lyran's Song For Midsummer, Sarah Beach

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Light lay soft in dreaming gloom. Darkness then did roam and drift.


The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn Oct 1991

The Man Of An Uncertain Address, Lala Heine-Koehn

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were my neighbours at rate time. We used to chat across the fence, discuss the weather due the next day, sometimes our dual problems.


Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst

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Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward: In the waiting room my wife rests her pain on my shoulder; the broken bones are hidden below the surface of her skin. Reluctant Spring: This spring the birds fly low above the trees; their new green skin not yet able to hide the bones of branches.


Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich

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Merlin's Winter: Your season is over now. The Lady of the Lake has closed her villas for the winter Eurydice In The Real World: Orpheus crept unseen into his afterlife through the early dark Walking On Water: Sunset bleeds across the sky, stains my fingers saffron and peaches.


Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood

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I dreamed a dream of dancing silver water that called a distant kingdom to my mind


One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst

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One Sunday My Son: One Sunday my son ran into the orchard behind the house. Cassandra: You have heard the children cry from the water below the rock: the earth red with blood from the feast of the father.


The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst

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I recognized first the old limp as you walked over the horizon on the road which disappears directly to the left of the sun


Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich

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Who waits by the seashore, there on the rocks, grey and cold and forlorn?


The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian

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The Dream She Never Told You: Colors dark and somber from a world buried deep in secrets and lore. The River of Glass: dream rocks in the lonely river black rocks smooth the water’s ripple in a mixture of reflection Wooden Masks: i felt the wake of wooden masks, and wept for city lights through swaying branches, raised


Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

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The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall


Olde Ballade, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Olde Ballade, Gwenyth E. Hood

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Come, listen to the Story Olde Of two Cities and a Friar Bolde


Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky Mar 1991

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

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Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen


The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

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The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine


Sean's Retort, Howard Tessler Mar 1991

Sean's Retort, Howard Tessler

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I hunt to fill my table; to sate my hunger.