Alex Duridas’ Dunes! — image by Om Gee!
"Dunes" its a slow walk down from the dunes that lead back to the pavement. And I know the back and forth as well as anyone. As well as she might. [...]
Memorable Times With Ivan (Poems by Ivan Wendell Hubbard and Bridget Galway)
Letter from Provincetown the beauty of this place is beyond me reds and blues of the morning sky then how high white in the sky the sun stands [...]
To Eyedea.
Here I am in the cold, smoking a cigarette. And I find out that Eyedea has passed on. I guess another fallen star falls down to earth sleeping in [...]
Adrienne Drobnies’ “The Devil”
Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo At 22, you mugged my life squeezed your arm around its neck rifled through its pocketswith your large, aged [...]
Beautiful Ugly Thing By Erin “Rant Poet” Burns
A visual cacophony This beautiful thing To die a violent death could Bring an end to this begin- ning. A dismal dismantling Of internal organs weighed and measured to [...]
ODDBALL’S 100th POST!!… and it’s political!!
Power by George Panagopalous Having power in general is an awesome thing, control, influence, actual authority, to wield enough power to slow Government to a crawl, having the power to twist [...]
Alex Duridas’s “The Summer It Rained All Day Long”
The Summer it rained all day long like a fraudulent card left at the bottom of a purse. Pursuant to a dream. A large catalog of ideas. A slap. Lipped over [...]
GREAT SHARK WARNING by Susan Major-Tingey
Across TV and radio waves an alarm rings over Massachusetts, a great hoopla is unfolding, a summer WARNING, a fear of great white sharks in east coastal waters. A child asks [...]
The Love Letter Tango by Lewis Reginald Morris
In front of an audience of my Water rippled reflection… Basking in the thunderous applause Of your pulse, I listened to your breath Enunciate your secrets with every exhale That leaves [...]
Thought For the Day by HIS House
Can God give me the correct change??? It has been said that Thoughts Create Words. Words Create Action. Action Creates Habits. Habits Create Character. Character Creates Destiny. I say: [...]
That Very Thin Line by Shamaiah Tibet
That Very Thin Line We sucked up that thin line between love and hate. Our hearts becoming black holes as our energy collected in space. Electric. We didn't dare touch it. [...]
Doug Holder’s Furnished Room-Newbury St-Boston: 1978
By: Doug Holder _______________________________________ The raw, coiled red glare of the hot plate-- the urine stain of a sink and the waft of Red Sauce from Davio's below-- The [...]
O’ Laughter by Andrew Borne
O rain who falls upon the waves O waves who bend across the sky O sky who hears all notes that laugh Laughing for the rain, waves, and sky [...]
Growing Up Dirty by J. WRITE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZwKa3Zrze4 I write cause my mind has to all the shit I've been through I write cause I have to, because I come unglued if I don't this isn't rap, I'm [...]
G. David Schwartz’ “Teach Your Dog Some Poetry”
Teach Your Dog Some Poetry By: G. David Schwartz Teach your dog some poetry He may like it, or is she she Read your dog some poetry I recommend the bard [...]
Smile empty Soldier
Smile empty Soldier by Jason Wright I know. I know. You've told me this before. To never put flowers in bullet shells. To know the truth and the bullshit. [...]
Across The Street by S. Major-Tingey
"The Blue Sphere" courtesy of Shabunawaz Photography © 2010 Shahnawaz Achhiwala Across the Street Surveyors measure and hammer pointed stakes into the land, orange day-glow streamers wave in breezes [...]
Shamaiah Tibet’s “Events in Memoriam”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCH2wpU9b0 Events In Memoriam By Shamaiah Tibet They know me to hoard time. So steal themselves away across the horizon To intangible places and abandon my need for solid moments. I [...]
Diploma Strings By David Krancher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HPtXzDe-3w Diploma Strings by David Krancher A one-day-old baby was given the DNA for his brain in a bag half-filled with flour. He grabbed its strings and pulled but the strings [...]
to kill the demons one word at a time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRzLedKMVAo depression hits worse when there's no one to talk to I made a mold of a church and then i took a walk through and in my mind i said, [...]
Free Proses are Still Free, Right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VIEqZh9_54 Weird how the world trembled when they listened to my mental. Stole the science from a scientist and now I can write this. Soulful, the mind grows. A single prick [...]
Man The Storm Sings a Song (But not about the Celtics)
its about looking at books. Alright friends of Oddball, I hope you are all enjoying Doug Holder. I also hope that you guys and ladies are checking out some of the [...]
3 A.M at the Psychiatric Ward by Doug Holder
This poem is from a series of poems written during Doug's tenure at McLean Hospital. Doug Holder ran, for ten of his 27 years there, poetry groups for psychiatric patients. In [...]