Common Language Project

Zombie Gospel Christopher Stephen Soden Once I could never fathom living in the city. Without simple trust, without shelter of common harmony. There is something about the luster of the…

Kindred Feeling Talisha Simpson My pulse suggests that I am breathing but the truth is that I am barely living. My mistakes ring loud in my ear like an overcrowded…

Once Cheryl W. Robinson I bet I was happy and smiling when I first saw your face, believing it was tender and kind I wonder if you saw the luster…

Notes on Creating a Wellspring Sylvia Riojas Vaughn Fathom a retreat, a possible Utopia. Why not embrace it once? Raise the first stanchion of a simple frame shelter. Far from…

Once Erin Reeves Once, I planted a stanchion around my heart— a shelter, as I hoped, smiling and thankful, to receive your embrace. Once, I tried to capture the west,…

Soft Touch Gayle Reaves-King God spoons up the living mountains like ice cream, leaving only the luster of his cold breath as snow clouds in the west. Great mounds of…

Frame for a New World Anne Gordon Perry Living in this troubled age with trust that things will change eroded, we forget solutions can be simple once common dreams are…

lyric Mark David Noble our radio was listening to the day, the city, to us, to the possible uniform outcome collected from people we met, who called us looking for…

Goodbye Mz Jolie As you hear me singing, I hope you are really listening. I am sending up prayers hoping that one day my living won’t be a crime.  This…

Take Shelter Cole Murphy Take Shelter, Join the city, Living in fear, Learning to embrace the stanchion of life, Thankful for the shade, Tender and warm, Listening to the harmony…