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  May 2022     1 year ago

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A House, In Time.

This house has long since been forgotten -
Its floorboards groan and scream in
Remembrance of ghost’s footsteps treading still
Are the walls - whose only movement comes
From whispering winds sneaking secrets through the cracks.
Cracks - each...

– by Ryan Galloway

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Glory

Glory, Glory, so they say, comes to you when you have won the day.
Glory comes when the stench of corpses grips your senses,
When, in the fields, the bodies burn

 in magnificent effigies to the cause.
To what cause?
There is no glory in war.

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– by Ryan Galloway

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The imagery, as well as the diction, is striking and surreal. They had me reading back over the poem several times before I even tried to decipher the meaning.

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