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Tsunami Riptide [Today's News Poem, March 13, 2011] Unravel the surface and peel off the ceilings. Reveal, repeal, uncover, then exil...

I know your kind: your hollow fealty to words. You claim you'd die for literature, yet you fear to be slain in the arena. Well Combatwor...

Debunking the Myths of Japan [Today's News Poem, March 12, 2011] The dolphins are laughing, the bigot applauds; Maguro, unagi salute ...

Eye Big In Japan [Today's News Poem, March 11, 2011] Where wave meets reactor; where blaze floats on foam, Where old circuits die whe...

Banana Slug Nazar [Today's News Poem, March 10, 2011] At first it was God's Eye: a charm of protection We made with two sticks an...

Deducing Induction [Today's News Poem, March 9, 2011] Fourteen billion pairs of eyes Gazed at their seventy billion toes; Saw a tril...

Lies In The Firmament [Today's News Poem, March 8, 2011] I think I felt a spark beneath the moon; It was crushing, tremendous—I felt ...

Excuseman Misses Quota [Today's News Poem, March 7 2011] The pencils for closers, the door for excuses; Go to the door my excuseman, ...

Bird of Coffins [Today's News Poem, March 6, 2011] It started in grass and it ends in the sand. It glided the thermals, its droppings...

Buried Alive In A Grave For Pagan Gods [Today's News Poem, March 5, 2011] 'Shafted,' the veins call. Shafted in ore. Shafted ...

Anton Gourman ( http://forpuck.wordpress.com/ ) won last week's Combatwords, so he selected this week's topic. You can see him win ...

The Golden Termite [Today's News Poem, March 4, 2011] It's always back and forth between deduction, induction, reduction, seductio...

They Will Take It From Us [Today's News Poem, March 3, 2011] I don't embrace you yet—I will, so tarry. Bless us, extend our dura...

Commanded To Surrender [Today's News Poem, March 2, 2011] Law is stone and God is brazier: Bronze, unyielding, burning razor. Time i...

False Etymology of Western Modernity [Today's News Poem, March 1, 2011] Pass through the root of a word: It resembles enchanters of b...

Change Charges Promise [Today's News Poem, February 28, 2011] Change is a coin that one flips in the air, Calls as it lands; then one...

Rat Maze [Today's News Poem, February 27, 2011] Over capacity, under the freeway, Next to the tower of smog—yes the thunder's Al...

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Breadlines and Roselines [Today's News Poem, February 26, 2011] Make a date: the Ferry Building Farmer's Market. Wait in a civili...

Whiteout [Today's News Poem, February 25, 2011] In the dark, it's mind and toes that cringe and hands that grip the walls; Dark a...

Blackout [Today's News Poem, February 24, 2011] Rain the timbers sideways, raise the tarp And slide if you dare through a hurricane. ...

The Slave Meme [Today's News Poem, February 23, 2011] Calculate value with margins of error: Rome had its slaves who rebelled and des...

Time Machine [Today's News Poem, February 22, 2011] Los Angeles twists on Sierra— A snow-melt from faucet to desert— And gargles the...

American RPG [Today's News Poem, February 21, 2011] I loaded my game and returned to the sidewalk. To level, I jaywalked and dodged a...

Skipper De-Jaded [Today's News Poem, February 20, 2011] If I chose revolution and salvaged compassion From my island of shipwreck, my...

Above Average [Today's News Poem, February 19, 2011] I've reached the other side of average And I find I've never understood ...

Ready For The Next Nerve [Today's News Poem, February 18, 2011] Press conversation; the world is for you. Sell your opinion, say ...

Heavenly Orbit [Today's News Poem, February 17, 2011] Watchfulness over the money—count on it. Count on the yellow to follow currency...

In the Hall of the Mountain of the Financial Aid Officer [Today's News Poem, February 16, 2011] The yuppie code expels its vitriol, C...

We Just Want To Be Free [Today's News Poem, February 15, 2011] Dinner has vanquished the evening, All the dishes oppress the night, ...