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LUNACY
Call me a lunatic, I won't go. I don't want to leave like one Haven't traveled yet to my heart's content I wish I could fathom and...

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Dec 17, 20211 min read
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NOETIC TRICUBE POETRY
On November 23rd, 2021, we held a Challenge for our Word of the Week (Noetic) and applied to Tricube Poetry. Five Best Entries were...

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Dec 16, 20211 min read
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FREE VERSE - BEST ENTRIES
On November 25, 2021, we offered a Free Verse (no word of the week, no challenge or prompt). ILA had a total of 37 entries and out of the...

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Dec 15, 20213 min read
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INTIAL END POEMS
On November 30th, 2021, we held a Word of the Week (Herald) Challenge for Initial End Poetry. An Initial poem rhymes at the beginning of...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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VIBRATIONS
A "Best Entry" chosen from a Monthly 'Visual Art' Prompt Challenge in November. The photographer of the Visual Art was by ILA's...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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FEATURE
This beautifully written poem was chosen as BEST ENTRY for a November 10th Poetry Challenge with the theme, "If you could freeze time in...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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QUOTES FEATURE
Below, featured quote chosen as BEST ENTRY from a WORD of the WEEK challenge we offered on our Facebook Group. The "Word of the Week"...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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A Song
by DUSAN KOVACEVIC BATALION from Serbia. A song is not a letter on paper. A song are the thoughts that come out. A song is a picture that...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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FEATURED AUTHOR
MOHAMMAD ERFUN AMIN Mohammad Erfun Amin is a Rohingya, twenty-three year old, passionate young writer and a trilingual published poet,...

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Dec 11, 20212 min read
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OPPOSITES OF LIFE
Two sides of the same coin are the opposites in life, Overwhelmingly appear the ways and options rife, Yet, the undeterred and fixed...

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Dec 11, 20211 min read
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HUMMINGBIRD
By Steve Carr At the kitchen sink, Julia felt the warm, moist spring breeze blowing in through the open window brush her cheeks. She ran...

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Dec 8, 20218 min read
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The Agony of Solitude
Beyond facial facades Looking into your eyes A journey into your soul There was much to see Vast ocean of tear drops Whispers of...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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ULTIMATE GOAL POEM
As the life-giving breath goes Into my ever-heaving lungs I get a new lease of moment Just for a while it stays and Hardly do I notice as...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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A LOOK - 249
The more I try to go away, the more you drag me towards you. No option, I am and will be revolving around you till You grace me to...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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AFTERGLOW
A presage to the eloquence of time: aesthetic, trancing, encapsulating. How oft mind wanders in a sea of radiant peace void of...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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The Rose and the Leaf
The rose said I am blooming Feeling a bit gloomy inside The leaf next to her said I won't leave you ever I was made for you And to be...

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Dec 7, 20211 min read
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SERENITY OF LIFE
I live in this calm place between heaven and earth In the presence of blue waters on the river bed Beneath the fresh green grass of good...

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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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PAIN
pain is tenderness with harshness it is the giggle of eternal don't be stuck within it make it the blossom of soul it is the sensation...

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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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A Painted Rose
Perhaps my heart bleeds, To the color of red, With every thorn of love; Some tears drop from above. Yet, beauty is exquisitely rare,...

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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Magnetic Beam
Lunatic...my mind Lunar...what's that kind Cosmic site...new term Galaxy's heart --- race of mind Heart makes tune of love Resonance...

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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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