Category: poetry
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The President’s Peace by Todd French
It’s grueling (the wait and see) and we are hoping, walking onPins and needles like an Egyptian plover in the crocodile’sJaws, picking food from the teeth. Will it stand? For a day,An hour, minutes: what I know in spite of Scripture, is thatRight now, we are past the bare minimum of anthropoid andThe terrorists are…
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Hot Mics and Immortality by Todd French
“With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality,” Putin agreed. “Predictions are, this century, there is also a chance of living to 150,” Xi replied. Psalm 37:27-29New International Version (27)Turn from evil and do good;then you will dwell in the land…
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Sliding into Obscurity by Michael E. Theroux
Broken shards of our distant dreams of Peace and Love, and Brotherhood have been claimed by the Overlords to woo us with our own slogans. Those dreams are now their scythes. We don’t even feel the razor’s edge. After all, we lit the Freedom Fuse, which comes back now to burn us. We measure our…
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Writing Contest Entry Update
We’re less than a month away from the kickoff of our first annual summer writing contests. Writers should NOT SUBMIT their work until the entry dates are open. Each month focuses on a different writing art: June=Poetry July=Nonfiction August=Fiction Entry details and fees for each competition are listed below. Annual Poetry Competition Move us. Make…
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From the Editor: My Little Someone (celebrating Mother’s Day)
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in art, conservative, creativity, editor’s desk, holidays, motherhood, poem, poetry, pro life, reading, writingAmerican First Magazine wishes all of the moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! Raising children is an important job, and nothing compares to it. I found myself reflecting on this as I wrote a little something about what it feels like to love someone before they are born. As a mother of five,…
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19 Minutes by Michael E. Theroux with Artwork by Pamela Theroux-Hanief
Image © Pamelia Theroux-Hanief, NY 2023“… Let’s see if the world is still there…” and our bedroom TV world-window complies with an image straight out of Hollywood: smoke, uniforms everywhere, something about a 747 …Six or seven channel switches later, same scene: a glass and steel pillar, billowing black smokeits twin standing so close by,…
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On Guard by Michael E. Theroux
This, this animalNot for polite companyOld dog good teethPet at your own riskThen count your fingersLikes it rawFeeds aloneEven in a crowdAlways on dutySeen too lateNot for the lapSleeps eyes openStrikes without soundGrowls more than barksBarks and means itBut thenRemember why we’re hereAnd ask yourselfWhy own a guard dogThat does not biteMichael offers that he…


