5th of July, The
   ..this should probably be my epitaph

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

  Acquiescence
  ..about the acceptance of reality or lack thereof without fear and the realization of the hypocrisy that has been mine and humanity's life's story.  I have never felt more at peace.

   Intro Image - "The Ancient Swing" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "The Illusion"  by Jerry Browning

 After the Rapture
 ..about a guy who missed the rapture - I was raised a Southern Baptist and my grandfather was a Baptist preacher. I wrote this long before the "Left Behind" series that became so popular with the evangelicals.

   Intro Image - "Going Home" by Joe Santana                  
   Empact Image - "Crucified 2" by Chris Hedges  

  Recited by Kenny Dunkwu

  Alpha Rex
  ...a dream about the opportunity to make a better world mocked by the illusion that anything in this world is lasting including empires and religions

   Artwork - "U.F.O. Burgers" by Stuart Swartz  

  Recited by Emma Stewart
      
 Almost Dawn
 ..about the feeling of lying in bed with your lover but feeling like you can't touch them.

   Artwork - "Synchronicity II" by Annette E. Bank   

    Recited by River Kanoff

 American Epitaph
..a testament to the frustration and shame at the current political situation in the US and around the world.

   Intro Image - "US Grave" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "Constitution's Last Stand" by Beth Smith

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

  American Reckoning
  ..after a year of divisive politics and watching many Americans lose their sense of value, dignity, and concern for the greater good.  I turned off the media for a week and this is what bubbled up.

 Atomic Shadows
 ..this was written in 1985 which was forty years after the atomic bomb. We're still here is what I tell my children when they worry about all the predictions of the worlds end...although the shadows of Nagasaki and Hiroshima still trail us.

   Intro Image - "Time" by Edward Myers                  
   Empact Image - "Door on a doomsday" by Gonyo     

  Recited by Kasey Vorakoummane

B

  Sang by Jerry Browning

 BB and G, The
 .. about the nightmare of an average guy.
    WARNING (explicit language and images).

   Intro Image - "Brimstone Sign" by Jerry Browning                    
   Empact Image - "Getting a Grip on Being Transgender" by Ed Meredith  (website)        

   Recited by Michael W. Guthrie

 Barless Cage
 ..about the "cage" of loneliness

   Artwork - "No Words" by Veronica Jackson             

  Recited by Emma Stewart

 Behold, the Crossroad!
 ..about the cost of what we're doing to this planet.

   Intro Image - "The Four Corners of the World" by Darice Machel McGuire                  
   Empact Image - "Universe" by Rajinder Aggarwal    

  Recited by Sonya Cerdan

 Beyond Artesian Springs
 ..a poet's feeble attempt to fathom the afterlife

   Intro Image - "Into the Astral" by  Dorothy Berry-Lound
   Empact Image - "Elsewhere" by Chaline Ouellet

  Beyond Redemption
  ....after travelling abroad for a couple weeks and ending up in a hotel in New Orleans after only one night home, I was struggling with jetlag, woke up at 4am and wrote this wishing I was feeling a more promising and happy vibe.

Bigot
 ..about life from the view point of a stupid bigot.

   Artwork - "The Hirja" by James Harper      

   Recited by Amanda Riley

 Blind Date
 ..about the thoughts that go through a person's mind before a blind date...is fantasy more vital than flesh?

   Artwork - "Reflexio Aurea" by Petronius 

  Recited by Ben Keopraseuth

 Blue Eyed Party Girl
..about pining for an old girlfriend.

  Intro Image - "I see you" by Scarlett Royal  
    Empact Image - from "Illustrations of Models in Oil" by Alma Groskinsky      

   Recited by Andrew Harvie

  Sang by Abbey and Jerry Browning

 Broken Bond
 ..about letting go and gliding into the eternal.. in memory of Stephen Lucas, a wonderful artist.

   Intro Image - "Cosmic Loop" by  Corey Ford              
   Empact Image - "Lite Brought Forth by the Archkeeper" by Stephen Lucas

   Recited by Steven Mane

 Broken Glass
 ..about how being grounded to your room looks through the eyes of a young boy.

   Intro Image - "Bowl of Marbles" by Carla Kurt             
    Empact Image - "Boy in Window" by Reb Frost             

   Recited by Zack McComas

 Butterfly Effect
 ..about the death of John Lennon...written on a hangover.

   Intro Image - "Butterfly: Take Two" by  MPMG               
   Empact Image - "Part XIV The Ladder To The Sky" by enigma-astralis

   Recited by Jerry Browning

   Video by AegisHikaru

C

 C.I.C. (Combat Information Center)
 ..about what it feels like to maintain and operate the most powerful weapons system in the world...written from real experience.

   Intro Image - Unknown (found here) - please contact me if you are the owner
   Empact Image  - "Zoomers" by Jerry Browning

  Recited by Pat Caporuscio

    Recited by Julie Hoverson

  The Case for Trump
  ..written two weeks after the 2020 election. Trump and his rabid followers were still denying defeat and covid was running rampant. His lawyer Rudi Guliani was foaming at the mouth saying all kinds of crasy conspiracy theories...sad time for America

 Captain Ambition
 ..about how it feels to watch the fall of a megalomaniac like Osama Bin Laden or Adolph Hitler.

   Artwork - "Mantis" by Ben Van Rooyen    

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Card, The
 ..about a kid during the Vietnam era receiving his draft notice in the mail and knowing inside he's going to die over there.

   Photo by "Vietnam Era Draft Card" by A Victor Reyes

  Recited by Emma Stewart

Catfish Bridge
  ..written at the old bridge down in the lake that led to the town of Red Rock before the dam

 Photo - "The Old Red Rock Bridge" by Jerry Browning

 Celebration
 ..about the crazy overwhelming feeling of being in love

   Intro Image - "Alive" by  Barron Holland             
   Empact Image - "Lover's Dream" by Kurt Van Wagner

    Recited by Amanda Riley

 Chain Mail
 ..a humorous look at loathing entering poetry contests.

   Intro Image - "Medieval Armour" by Elizabeth Hoskinson
    Empact Image - "Grim Reaper" by Katie Alphonsi

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Charlie Thrash
 ..this is a true story....I went to the geriatric home in my hometown to do a speech for a public speaking assignment in college.

   Recitation Needed!  

  Recited by Nigel Lewis-Davidson

 Child of the World
 ..about seeing a shooting star and feeling the insignificance of being on this tiny planet. This started it all, my first poem.

   Intro Image - "The Big Bang" by Evelyn Patrick
   Empact Image - "The death and possible life after of Lewis Paine" by Richard Hubal    

   Recited by Darcy Maguire 

   Sang by Jerry Browning

 Cocoon
  ..an outrageous look at a man's struggle to re-enter the womb.

   Artwork - "Body and Soul" by Karin Kuhlman

   Recited by Nigel Lewis-Davidson

 Cosmic Psalm
 ..a prayer to the universal mind

   Intro Image - "Big Bang" by Jerry Browning                     
   Empact Image "BirthDaze" by Carmen Hathaway

   Recited by Amanda Riley

 Crimson Sin
 ..about the mess of a planet we leave the children.

   Artwork - "Memoirs of Bloody Sunset" by Veronica Jackson 

   Recited by Paul Finlay

 Crusader, The
 ..about my journey into life and those I've left behind.

   Artwork - "Midnight Joust" by Lisa Gabrius

   Recited by Amanda Riley

 Curious Boy
 ..about how simple being kind and caring seems through the eyes of a child.

   Artwork - "Boy and Girl on Bench" from this advertisement

  Sang by Jerry Browning

 Cyber Insecurity
  ..sometime you just have to wonder if we're not the dog that caught the bus with technology

D

   Recited by Daniel Kerry

 Dance Demon
 ..about a human's struggle to keep his temper and mouth from destroying what he loves.

   Artwork - "Duality of Man" by Jerry Browning

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Dangerous
 ..about getting picked up and having a fantasy night with a beautiful woman but wise enough to understand the consequences.

   Artwork - "Dusk" by Eric Cobb

  Sang by Jerry Browning

 Death of a Genre
 ..about the obsolescence of a genre.. nothing last forever. Even Homer and Shakespeare will be forgotten in time.

  Intro Image - "The Fruit Man" by Elen And-Israel
   Empact Image - "Jester" by Maria Gilbert

  Recited by Erica Kroger

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Destiny
 ..yearning once again for the woman of my wildest dreams...have I met her and don't know it? will I ever meet her?

   Intro Image - "The Afternoon Lover" by  xIxKilledxSuicidex
   Empact Image - "Resurection" by xIxKilledxSuicidex

   Recited by Anthony Caraman

 Detour
 ..about meeting and making love to a beautiful woman in the unlikeliest of places, but it not satisfying your soul.

   Intro Image - "The Cherry Tree at Overlook Garden" by  Phyllis Franklin              
  Empact Image - "Marsha's Evening Walk" by Phyllis Franklin 

   Recited by Chase Hobby

 Digital Footprints
  ..does being copied with what's considered our best traits being mimicked mean we live on?

Discipilitis
 ..about wanting to be a faulted martyr.

   Artwork - "Torn Reaction number 2" by Richard Hubal

   Recited by Daniel Kerry

 Dolly Blue Eyes
 ..about trying to understand a mentally disturbed lover.

   Artwork - "Flowers for You"  by Natalie Holland

E

   Recited by Adam Bullock

  Intro Image - "Echoes" by Jerry Browning
  Empact Image - "Gigapixels of Andromeda" by NASA

   Recited by Gianni Matragrano

 Edgar
 ..about laying in bed at night looking at the red light on the smoke detector and wondering if it's a hidden camera...paranoia.

    Intro Image - "Smoke Alarm Face" by Digger Digger Dogstar               
    Empact Image - "Komodo Dragon Eye" by  Linda Sannuti

  Recited by Bradley Pearson-moore

 Enchanted Rock
 ..about rock climbing at Enchanted Rock in Fredericksburg, Texas and that deep fear we love to hide and challenge.

    Intro Image -  Visit Enchanted Rock in Fredericksburg, Texas            
     Empact Image - "Fall" by Shelley Jones

   Recited by Daphne Batson

 Endless Night
 ..about waiting for the end...you know they don't want you anymore, but you refuse to see it until it dawns upon you on an endless night...please let me sleep!

   Artwork - "Bird in the Trees" by Beth Edwards (website)

  Recited by Andrew Harvie

 Enlightenment Lounge, The
 ..a tongue-in-cheek dream about dying and meeting the great minds of history in limbo.

  Intro Image - "The Enlightenment Lounge" by  Ted Hebbler
   Empact Image - "The Human Cave" by  Eric Edelman

  Recited by Kenny Dunkwu

 Exorcism
 ..about the drive to push the frustration of the world away with iron. My buddy John and I used to hit the gym so hard in those days that we wouldn't quit until one of us threw up.

   Intro Image  - "Weights in a Row" by OsirisPUNK            
    Empact Image - "Exorcism" by Alan Taylor Jefferies 

  Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Exposure
 ..about the excitement of facing fear

   Artwork "The Cliff" by Karen Masters

   Recited by Aimee Smith

F

   Recited by Shawnee Miles

  Recited by John Ramos

 Flight of Fancy
 ..written on a flight back home from Europe that I finished up when I got home about how sad the state of the world seems at this time.

 Flow, The
 ..about how the arts are in the eye of the beholder and how you wonder what great work we missed because it was never noticed.

   Intro Image - "New Door to the Past" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "Frozen Flow 1" by Jerry Browning

   Recited by Zack McComas

  Forever
  ...a deep, dreamy, beautiful message

  Foxism
 ..I've lost a lot of friends to the divisiveness of the current political climate and was finally able to frame the way it looks from my point of view

   Artwork - "Fat Cat" by Taro Istok

G

 Gentle Breeze
 ..based on the death of Socrates.

   Intro Image - "Romeo and Juliet" by Todd Peterson                  
   Empact Image - "Red Maple Leaf" by  Darrell Storts

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

  Girl Next Door
 ..about a little boy having his first encounter with the fairer sex.

   Artwork - "With These Hands -- Wonder" by Carol Allen Anfinsen

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

H

  Holes
  ..about stopping to really think about your life and if it really means anything 

 Recited by Dani Zipporah

   Recited by Nigel Lewis-Davidson

 Recited by Derek Jackson

I

   Recited by Ron Arthurs 

 I Still Love You
 ..about thinking back on an old romance and wanting that feeling back.. and fooling yourself.

   Artwork - "Clear Blue 2" by Stuart Gilbert 

 Infomercial
 ..a satire on infomercials and nuclear holocaust...yes, it really is! I wrote this shortly after we were rammed by the Russians in the Black Sea.

  Recited by Nigel Lewis-Davidson

   Recitation Needed!

J

  Just Words
 ..about the realization that it doesn't matter what I or anyone else writes or says...they're just words.

  Intro Image - "Think" by Kristine Nora
   Empact Image - "Red Umbrella" by Kristine Nora      

   Recited by Zakuro Fujiwara

K

 Karma
  ...someday I'll catch up with that fickle lady and all my cares will be gone

 Kiss, The
 ..about a sailor's last thoughts as his ship goes down.

  Intro Image - "Toast" by LorAnge Marcel          
   Empact Image - "Stare" Copyright © Clayton Bruster           

   Recited by Mark Cox

 Kundalini
..a witty little look at science and philosophy...on what level(s) or dimension(s) does organized thought form?  does it exist without perception?  is it at all governed by our know laws of physics?

   Intro Image - "The Undisturbed Life Of An Apple" - Olga Hutsul
   Empact Image  - "Dream Gates" by  ahermin

   Recited by Jerry Browning

L

   Recited by Sophie

 Last Rebel Shot, The
  ..questions if universal peace and total order is really what mankind needs...could be boring.

   Photo by Dr. Harold Edgerton of MIT      

   Recited by Zack McComas

 Left Lane
 ..portrays a the thoughts that gnaw on a young man's soul as he leaves home to head out on his own

   Intro Image - "SideView Mirror" by  Jeff Breiman                    
   Empact Image - "Incubator" by Gabriel Forgottenangel      

   Recited by Miranda G.

 Let's Run
 ..written in the Harris county jail...I got in a barroom brawl over a woman and landed two counts of assaulting a police officer, public intoxication, and a few old traffic warrants...I had to memorize this because I didn't have a pencil and paper

   Intro Image - "Spirit Bird" by  Julie Grace        
   Empact Image - "Paint for Me" by  Karin Kuhlmann     

   Recitation Needed!

  A Lick and a Promise
  ...after all the searching for answers through this life and this collection, this is what I conclude.

 Letting Go
 ..about finally being able to truly let go of someone you're dearly in love with

   Intro Image - "Avian Blue 1" by  Angela Wesselman-Pierce
   Empact Image - "Letting Go" by Angela Wesselman-Pierce

   Recited by Dian Hadi

 Life Longing
 ..a young man's dream of what love and marriage should eventually be

   Artwork - "Wind and sun" by Asbjorn Lonvig  

  Recitation Needed!

Lighthouse Belle
 ..about a woman who's you guiding light and shelter from the storm

   Intro Image - "Portland Head Light - Stormy Night" by Maria O'Brien
   Empact Image- "Pianos and Guitars" by Chaline Ouellet       

   Recited by Ben Keopraseuth

Long Dark Winter
  ..written the week before the 2020 election. At the time of writing, it feel like a harbinger of doom...I sure hope not.

 Lost and Found
 ..about being lost in the forest, but finding your soul

   Intro Image - "River-Run" by  Richard Rizzo             
  Empact Image - "Logan-Pass" by Richard Rizzo

   Arranged and performed by Blake William Hickey

M

  Maggie in the Mist
  ..about a sailor longing for the love of his life who's passed on. This was inspired by a dream I had about being in a bar in Ireland but took a life of it's own as I wrote it 

     Intro Image - "The House on Hill 7" by Jim Taylor
   Empact Image - "Between the Layers" by Barbara St Jean

Malnutrition
 ..a brief and direct take on the death of a romance

   Artwork - "This is not love dear" by Safak Tulga

  Recited by Melissa Montelli

Mariner's Holiday, A
 ..written on the last of three holidays spent overseas in the Navy.  This poem is based on a real setting and shows the gritty reality of what it's like to spend the holidays in a foreign port.

   Artwork - "Bellusa Cafe No.2" by Sascha Meyer

   Intro Image - "Mason Jar" by Robert Matson                 
   Empact Image - "Euthanasia" by Jerry Browning 

   Recited by Brad Leither

 Masterpiece
 ..first love poem I ever wrote...I love looking back on the old ones and smile at the naivety

   Artwork - "Ave oculta en el paraiso " by Nance Almazon  

  Recited by John Ramos

 Mental Menopause
 ..written ten years before I got married and probably why I was thirty-two before I did. Sometimes I think I had premonitions and saw events such as my midlife crisis coming when I was twenty-three although I did figure I'd live to be thirty.

   Artwork - "Planned Obsolescence" by Bob Salo     

  Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Mermaid, The
 ..about a sailors longing for female companionship after being at sea for a while

   Artwork - "Twilight Reflection" by Jean Hildebrant

    Recited by Michael P. Watson

 Mistress Youth
..mid-life crisis is real if your lucky enough to get there...an older man's look back at his youthful lust...funny how the stories become better in retrospect than actually happened

   Intro Image - "Old Man from the Sea" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "Guilty Pleasure" by Conor O'Brien 

   Recited by Jerry Browning

 Misty Dawn
 ..an analogy of a tryst with a beautiful woman and the long shadow of possible nuclear war....really

   Artwork - "Apostate" by Todd Peterson    

   Recited by Jerry Browning

 Mosaic
 ..a love poem of two people putting the pieces of their former lives together to create a beautiful relationship in the present

   Intro Image - "Magical Energy" by  Linda Sannuti                 
    Empact Image - "Shards of Glass" by  Julie Grace       

      Recited by Alison H.

 My Girl
 ..written in the middle of the night in boot camp.  One of my buddies came up with the melody and the line "she is my girl, the girl I love" and wrote the rest

   Artwork - "Parque Mistico" by  Angel Ortiz

   Sang by Jerry Browning

N

  Neglected Goldfish
  ..response to the political climate of the reality TV era

  Network of the Lonely
 ..portrait of a lonely guy walking the streets in the 1980s

   Artwork - "Street of Dreams"* by liOneSS-178

   Recited by Melanie Quintos

  Intro Image - "As I see It" by Alan Zinn
  Empact Image - "Eyes on Ellis" by Alan Zinn

   Night Light
  ..written for my children. I hope they realize how much I love each and every one of them in their own special way and how proud I am of them.

  Recited by Erica Kroger

  Nocturnal Voyage
 ..a portrait of the magical odyssey of two starry-eyed lovers

   Artwork - "Lovers' Conjunction" by  Martin J Powell 

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

  Nyctophobia
.. nyctophobia is the fear of the dark. Stephane Trahan's painting makes this piece...make sure you click on the Empact Image to get the full effect...this feels like "Child of the World" lite...less words, but more filling

   Artwork - "Riders of the Storm" by Stephane Trahan

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Of Flesh and Fear
...a look at partners living life with HIV (AIDS) and trying to cope with it's reality...please practice safe sex boys and girls

   Artwork 1 - "HIV - Virus"* by  Scotito87

   Recited by Sean Cook

 Ol' Ticker
..a silly little poem about feeling so much love you could burst

   Artwork  - "Clockwork" by LaserAbe

  Recited by John Ramos

 Old Jim Crow Road
  ..I don't think conservative Americans remember how horrible the good old days really were

 On the Air Waves
..poetry and art are merely arrows shot into the infinite mind

   Intro Image - Unknown - (I see this all over, please contact me if you know the artist)
    Empact Image - "Flaming Arrow" by zweeZwyy  

   Recited by Angela Cassidy        

 On the Other Hand
..about the horror of domestic violence...WARNING: the recording done with my daughter Abbey is disturbing

   If you are the victim of domestic violence, get help here  

   Recited by Jerry and Abbey Browning

 One Current
..about the fear of dying alone and the fear of being buried

  Intro Image - "Emotion" by David Lane         
   Empact Image - advertisement from the Cancer Patients Aid Association of India

     Recited by Jerry Browning

 Orion
..that ancient hunter haunts us from the heavens once again

  Intro Image - "The Hunter" by Jerry Browning                 
   Empact Image - "Orion" by Jerry Browning      

   Recited by Alison H.

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   Artwork - "Just Ducky" by  Henry Powers

   Intro Image - "Paula" by Natalie Holland                  
    Empact Image - "Ocean Heart" by Diana Maus

  Recited by ~Nyachu~

   Intro Image - "Imagine" by  Kelly Jade Thomas                  
   Empact Image - "Body Heat II" by Donna Proctor   

  Recited by Derek Jackson

Pioneer Sunset
  ...just a few thoughts I want to share with my grandson and all that replace me in this old world

   Artwork - "Memories" by Reinfried Marass

   Artwork - "Barflys " by Nance Almazon

   Intro Image - "Flight" by  Chaline Ouellet              
   Empact Image - "Betrayed" by Chaline Ouellet

   Recited by Daniel Kerry

Q

 Quatrain 6:24
  ..written the night Roe vs Wade was overturned by the Supreme Joke, I mean Court

R

   Artwork - "Renewed Strength" by Al Stewart, Sr  

   Intro Image - "drops" by Maria O'Brien                 
   Empact Image - "Water Magic" by  Kevin Callahan

   Artwork - "Rainy Day" by Alexander Volkov

 Recited by Dani Zipporah

   Recycled Stardust
..about the unseen threads of this universe than you feel, but can't really touch

   Intro Image - "Glimpse Beyond" by Dorothy Berry-Lound
   Empact Image - "End Of The World"  by Victor De Schwanberg

  Red Sky Morning
  ..written in the middle of the night before the third presidential debate of 2016

   Intro Image - "Red Sky in Morning" by  Kristia Adams
   Empact Image - "Worlds Colliding" by Suzanne Powers

   Artwork  - "Druantia and Aengus Og" by Helena Nelson-Reed    

  Recited by John Ramos

 The Road of Declining Rome
 ..written about the urgency to overturn the "Citizens United vs. the SEC" decision.

   Artwork - "Desert Moon" from VisualParadox.com

   Recited by Jerry Browning

S

   Intro Image - "Salem Church" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "Guiding Light" by  Richard Rizzo

    Intro Image - "Flight of Imagination" by Siyavush Mammadov
    Empact Image- "Fall of Babylon" by John Martin        

   Artwork - from an article in BiPolarPlanet found here 

   Recitation needed!

   Intro Image - "Sweet Melody" by Natalie Holland
   Empact Image - "Adam and Eve Sunrise" by Angelina Vick  

    Intro Image - "Shaman" by  Ian Morgan           
    Empact Image - "Lycanthropes Moon" by Ian Morgan

   Recited by Derek Jackson

   Artwork  - "Drizzled Window" by Joe Bonita

   Artwork - "Berhnard" by Asbjorn Lonvig

   Intro Image - "Jordy and Daddy" by  'CLMillo Photography
   Empact Image - "A Child's Dream: Candy Land" by Urban-Banana

   Artwork - "Blue" by TerryAnne Groehler

   Intro Image  - "Hiding in the Garden" by Gene Gregory 
    Empact Image - "Lucifer Moon Rising" by Sam Hane

   Sang by Jerry Browning
 

 Spice Creek Hollow
..sometimes when you think back on your childhood and who you really are, you end up disappointed in what you've become even if you're what's deemed "successful"

   Intro Image - "Flying First Class, Baby" by Jerry Browning
   Empact Image - "a Well" by Juha M. Kinnunen

   Recited by Aaron Velliky

   Intro Image - "Wild Child" by  Jerry Browning                
   Empact Image - "Eve" by Kristina Ellis   

   Intro Image - USS Yorktown CG-48 Standard Publicity Photo                
   Empact Image - "Shipmates Never Die" by Robert Matson

   Artwork - "darkestsunrise3"* by Robert Matson 

   Intro Image - USS Stark FFG-31 linked to a site telling their story                 
   Empact Image - from Air Power Austrailia

   Intro Image - "Flying Dutchman" by Sandra Winiasz               
   Empact Image - "Taste of Blood" by Evelyn Patrick

   Artwork 1 - "Rude Awakening" by  Diane Daigle                     

   Intro Image - Artwork - "Male portrait 2" by Annette E. Bank          
   Empact Image - "Breathe" by rave8259            

    Recited by Ron Arthurs 

   Intro Image - "Demons versus Angels" by Shelley Jones               
    Empact Image - "Spooky" by Natalie Holland   

    Intro Image - "Morning Flight" by  Diane Merkle
    Empact Image - "Sun Spots" by  Darrell Storts

   Sang by Jerry Browning

   Intro Image - "Aflame" by  Lisa Kaiser
   Empact Image - "Guardian Angel" by  Ryan Sal

   Recited by Gianni Matragrano

  Surreality
  ..the thoughts that pass through a person's mind when they're struggling through a sleepless night

T

   Intro Image - "Chapel" by Shelley Jones                 
   Empact Image - "Rosary" by V Holeček  

   Recited by Jessica Warner

  Tethered
  ..trying to understand how religion and the concept of God get so misconstrued.

    Recited by Brad Leither

   Intro Image - "Amusement Park" by  Barron Holland              
   Empact Image - "Secret Garden" by Barron Holland 

   Recited by Melanie Quintos

   Intro Image  - "Archeologists extracting ancient lover" - from MSNBC      
    Empact Image - "The Lovers" by Erika Brown 

   Artwork  - "Turquoise Door" by Yvonne Ayoub       

  Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Tools
..this kind of puts it all in perspective...which is, it's all perspective...possibly one of best pieces ever written

   Intro Image - "Old Man at Bar" by  Paul Tiberio              
   Empact Image - "Ruined Temple" by Miranda Miranda

  Recited by Jenna Tafoya

 Tormented Soul, A
..a portrait of the demon's that haunt me...I was always told I was a miracle and god has a plan for me...that's a lot to live with

   Artwork - "Young English Poet" by ~InTenebris  

    Recited by Jake White

 Total Eclipse
.. wondering how long before someone pushes "the button"

   Intro Image  -  "Fire and Ice" by Laura Swink          
   Empact Image  -  "Oppenheimer's Daisy" by Jon Baldwin 

   Recited by Julie Hoverson

 Translucence
..about the realization that not even Homer and Shakespeare will be remembered forever

   Intro Image - "Step Up to Spirit" by  Donna Proctor                  
   Empact Image - "Sensory Chaos - Autism" by Donna Proctor      

  Recited by Jessica Warner

  Treasures
 ..a few lines about what I really consider wealth

  A Trophied Rose (Mirrored Version)
  ..a sad little poem about feeling lost with someone you've loved and broken as well as a mirror version written from the other's point of view

V

 Valley of the Shadow
..about once proud and virile man in a hospice dealing with the end of his life.

    Intro Image - "Epiphany" by Carmen Hathaway
    Empact Image- "Unknown" by Fran Riley

   Recited by Rowen Bahmer

 Venice
..oh that search for something never lost or left behind

    Intro Image  - "The Colors of Rome" by Warren Thompson
    Empact Image - "Paris Quartier Latin 01 " by Yuriy Shevchuk   

  Recited by John Ramos

Vision Quest
  ..written when sick with covid having flashbacks of some rough hikes in Joshua Tree National Park before the fires

Visionarium
..about that alternate existence that we enter when we turn out the lights on this one to start another day

   Intro Image - "Ocean's View 09" by Roxy Riou                  
   Empact Image  - "See You" by Carmen Hathaway

   Recited by Paul Finlay

W
 

 Warrior Poet, The
 ..about how it feels to be a warrior poet...what is it in men that make the thrill of the hunt carry over into love?...play the recording, the intro is Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar

   Artwork - "Warrior" by David Lee Thompson
   Marlin Brando clip from the Julius Ceasar (1953)

   Recited by Jerry Browning 

Wave, The
..about the feeling of surfing the air waves

     Intro Image - "North Shore" by  Gayle Etcheverry          
      Empact Image - "Pipeline" by Gayle Etcheverry               

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

  What Murphy Knows
  ...wanting to see the beauty of a woman seen only through the eyes of her beloved pet.

 White Elephant
..about the how the games people play are captured and made public through technology

   Intro Image - "Yin and Yang" by Skip Hunt 
    Empact Image - "Into" by Carmen Hathaway

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

   Recited by Zack McComas

 Will to be Wicked
..about a rowdy guy feeling the pressure of dealing with a young family and all the responsiblities

   Artwork - "Nude and Flowers" by Dianne Connolly

    Sang by Jerry Browning

 Windsong
..this piece says volumes with few words...love will find a way

   Photo - "Kite Eating Cherry Tree"* by philliefan99

   Recited by Morgan Barnhart

 Winter Flight
 ..an observance poem written between boarding and take off one snowy Des Moines early morning.

 Window, The
..about growing up watching the Vietnam War on TV had a profound effect on my generation...I can't believe those who were made to go fight that mistake turned around and repeated it in Iraq...no lesson learned

   Intro Image - put together from two photos on web  -  contact me if you are the owner.
      Dan Rather photo clip from here
   Empact Image - ""Freedom" (Free doom) under Vietnamese Communist Regime "
      by Viet Tran

    Recited by Jerry Browning

 Winter Rose
..about the loneliness and pain of a man and woman being separated by a military deployment

   Artwork - "Rose in the Snow" by Mindy Newman  

 Wonder Bar, The
..about being literally haunted by an old love

   Artwork - "Study of An Angel" by Stuart Gilbert               

  Recited by John Ramos

Z

 Zenith
..a sappy poem about love and nature

   Intro Image- "River" by Peter Rodulfo              
   Empact Image- "Together Through Life" by Peter Rodulfo

   Intro Image- "Love in Bloom" by Charles Roy Smith              
   Empact Image- "Together Through Life" by Peter Rodulfo

   Intro Image- "River" by Peter Rodulfo              
   Empact Image- "Love in Bloom" by Charles Roy Smith

  Recited by Steven Mane

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