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I'm an English teacher and actor/improviser from Cedar City, Utah.

  March 2024     8 months ago

Submitted Poems 37 total

The Tiniest Ghost

In the back of your closet,
far deeper than most
is an old haunted shoe with
the Tiniest Ghost.

The minuscule moans echo
from your tiny host.
Spiders and bugs whisper of
the Tiniest Ghost.

Ectoplasmic shoe laces,
cereal from Post,
all...

– by Ryan "Rev" McLean

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Toast the Bun

Gather 'round children!

  Don't push and don't run.
I must tell you clearly

  'fore more fun is done.

You've all had your sodas

  and ate chips a ton.
The Jell-O is finished.

  'Tato salad? There's none.

Your first barbecue
...

– by Ryan "Rev" McLean

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An Engine of Unlimited Potential

I have a book I wish to write...

  Unfinished
I have a story to tell on paper...

  Abandoned
I have a collection of poems to compile...

  Stalled
A play to pen...
A game to design...
A picture book to author...
Success to be had......

– by Ryan "Rev" McLean

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Insomnia

4 AM
I'm watching videos of industrial crushers
Why

I should sleep
But propane tanks sucked into a grinder
So goddamn...

– by Ryan "Rev" McLean

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Guilt v. Shame

God, I hate these
Ugly feelings and
I'm sorry my actions
Let you down and
Tore us apart

Silent
Hatred of
All that is
Me, I'm flawed
...

– by Ryan "Rev" McLean

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Latest Comments: 8 total

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Your talent for efficient imagery is on full display in this poem. It isn't often I find something that is able to make me envision what is being said so clearly, and I reread it several times just because I was moved by that final snapshot of a lifelong biker riding into eternity. It brought a certain amount of peace to me. Great work! 

8 months ago

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He definitely appreciates it! Thanks!

9 months ago

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I love that image, too! Thanks!

9 months ago

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Thank you very much!

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Thank you!

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This is such a wonderfully succinct and well-structured poem. It was the only poem in the whole competition that invoked a clear emotional response from me. I reread it several times and appreciated it more and more with each pass. Really stellar work here! 

10 months ago

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Powerful, poignant, timely, and I can't get over how great the "band of brothers" and "band of others" couplet is. Well done!

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I know it's just titles right now, but these all sound amazing! I'm excited to read them all!

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