DREAMING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Carol Alexander The dreams unspool like newsreel in the night. They patrol great rifts with somnambulist grace, afraid to wake. Winds sna...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017
USA
USA
WEATHER FOR DOGS
Sean Lenon
8:00 PM
by Howie Good Mothers and babies fleeing the red death disappeared down a hole in the sea. And now what do we do? Chant, “USA! USA!” Chant, ...
walls
walls
DUNGEONS FROM DRAGONS
Sean Lenon
6:49 PM
by Dennis Etzel Jr. Asmund wakes me up for another game as the sun tries rising in another December morning I try to rise he says he likes t...
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
BABEL
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Rachel Voss As a poet in the Internet Age, you find, through a quick search, that the image you seized upon during a walk to do laundry i...
rebellion
rebellion
LIFE GOES ON
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by David Chorlton He was found dead between two buildings, a homeless man who grew up in town and had been a fixture on the streets of Liber...
Sunday, January 29, 2017
wealth
wealth
T***P'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS:AN ERASURE
Sean Lenon
6:00 AM
by Floyd Cheung Cartoon by Mike Luckovich America, transfer power to a small group not your victories not your triumphs little to celebrate ...
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war
ATTITUDE
Sean Lenon
5:00 AM
by Brigitte Goetze Archive photo: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press-Wayne Glowacki The alternative ways are in stark oppositi...
twitter
twitter
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
Sean Lenon
4:00 AM
by Kristina England Cover created by Tim O’Brien , Professor at Pratt Institute and President at Society Of Illustrators 1. Hate crimes are ...
procession
procession
ALTERNATIVE FACTS:ESCHER MEETS KAFKA
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Kenneth Arthur "Relativity" by M.C. Escher Hooded walkers circle the courtyard stairwell intent on mysterious missions, ascendi...
wall
wall
HOW DID WE LET IT GET SO FAR?
Sean Lenon
1:41 AM
by Lucia Cherciu He wants to close borders and build a wall while refugees are waiting in pain. We watch in disbelief and want to crawl bac...
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee
THE WEIGHT OF WATER
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
A Rhupunt by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins The white man buys With gold-plate lies. His honor dies On rocks that stand. With greed, with guile...
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Friday, January 27, 2017
vulnerable
vulnerable
FIRST POEM OF A NEW YEAR
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Linda Lerner Photo credit: Nick Cobbing at LegalPlanet I thought of the polar bears when he told me of waking up with his arm flapping ar...
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Washington
Washington
3 EXCUSES FOR NOT MARCHING AND THEN A POEM
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Melissa Fite Johnson A woman wears a Statue of Liberty crown and holds a torch at the Women’s March in New York on Saturday. Credit Sara ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Tarahumara
Tarahumara
WORTHY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Devon Balwit Isidro Baldenegro (d. 2017), a subsistence farmer and community leader of Mexico’s indigenous Tarahumara people in the coun...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
poetry
poetry
POEM FOR THE POETS OF MYANMAR
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Jo-Ella Sarich Myo Yan Naung Thein "spent six months in prison last year after posting a satirical poem to Facebook deemed insultin...
Monday, January 23, 2017
vouchers
vouchers
THE PARK CLOSES AT DUSK
Sean Lenon
2:20 AM
by CL Bledsoe & Michael Gushue The problem is bears in the classroom. The problem is bears who don't know which utensil is for the p...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017
weight
weight
AFTER THE INAUGURATION, EVERYTHING IS PORTENTOUS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Allison Blevins Photo by Fletcher Gravy I think about the absolutes of motion when I’m naked, how a pendulum swings, how a scale unbalanc...
Saturday, January 21, 2017
poetry
poetry
JANUARY 13TH, 2017
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Marc Swan https://www.womensmarch.com In a short hop against convention, my wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th. Today a road tr...
We Shall Overcome
We Shall Overcome
HAPPINESS, THE A-BOMB, AND WHY I DON'T MARCH ANYMORE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Lynnie Gobeille AMERICA IS TAKING A STAND FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. JANUARY 21 AT 1:00 PM EASTERN TIME, RISE FOR ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE FOR WOMEN...
Friday, January 20, 2017
zero hour
zero hour
HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME
Sean Lenon
8:59 AM
by Rick Mullin Here we have the world turned on its head. It comes: The Zero Hour Inauguration. Skies grow orange and the trees glow red. I...
Washington
Washington
SOME WORDS FOR MEANWHILE
Sean Lenon
5:00 AM
by Lucia Galloway Poster by Jennifer Maravillas for the Women's March on Washington There is only this way, this one way, to breathe ...
terror
terror
POEM FOR THE INAUGURATION
Sean Lenon
4:00 AM
by Jon Wesick I hope I’m wrong, so wrong my name becomes slang for a tragic blunder as in, “Custer sure pulled a Wesick at the Little Bighor...
xenophobia
xenophobia
A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Mary Saracino Poster by JessicaSabogal for We the People which will flood Washington, DC with NEW symbols of hope on January 20. You c...
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light verse
light verse
ACUTE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Barbara A Taylor acute trumpitis the doctors’ surgeries are overflowing "Each day demands that I write and that my fingers touch ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017
vegan
vegan
SHOPPING STREET OF THE ETERNAL SPRINGTIME SUN
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by John Brooks The carcass of a dead cow lies in the Black Umfolozi River, dry from the effects ot the latest severe drought, in Nongoma dis...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Texas
Texas
FUNERALS FOR FETUSES
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Eliza Mimski This poster was created by Shepard Fairey who eight years ago made the iconic Obama poster that captured a period of HOPE in...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
poetry
poetry
CULLING DEADWOOD IN WINTER TIME SHRUB TRIMMING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Earl J Wilcox Poster by ErnestoYerena for We the People which will flood Washington, DC with NEW symbols of hope on January 20. You can ...
Monday, January 16, 2017
terrorists
terrorists
ENEMIES LIST
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by David Radavich This poster was created by Shepard Fairey who eight years ago made the iconic Obama poster that captured a period of HOPE ...
Sunday, January 15, 2017
preach
preach
IGNITION
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Catherine Wald "Nearby, off to one side, Mahalia Jackson shouted: 'Tell them about the dream, Martin!'” —Drew Hansen, The Ne...
Saturday, January 14, 2017
winter
winter
MILD, FOR WINTER
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Ron Singer Although the day was mild, for winter, I decided to wear my warmest coat. Nor did I neglect to transfer my gloves. I prepared ...
Friday, January 13, 2017
Tweets
Tweets
HERE'S TO THE GREATNESS WE INAUGURATE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Chris O'Carroll The issues your wise tweets elucidate, The tone you’ve done so much to elevate, Lawsuits you’ll never settle (oh, but...
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