By Glory Cumbow Look Up Oh, please, please look up. I know the consuming temptation to lock eyes arrow-straight ahead refusing the risk of averting your gaze elsewhere and accepting the landscape immediately before you as the only possible reality. Oh, but please, please look up. Within the strict parameters of frontward vision that neglects … Continue reading Look Up and Other Poems
Puzzling It Out
By Dianne Moritz You go along in life, putting the pieces together, one by one. Like a jigsaw puzzle, sometimes they fit snuggly: bird on a nest, sweet peas on a trellis. Then, just when you think you’re ready for the next piece, you lose it under the tablecloth or discover it’s all wrong...cloud cover … Continue reading Puzzling It Out
Why?
By Kulikani Nortey Is what I feel real or is it just a figment of my imagination? What is imagination? Is it just something we just imagined? Is it all man made because I have never met my ego? Does the soul really exist? Heaven and hell two opposites of the same fist. If all … Continue reading Why?
For $2.00 She Was Mine
By Debra J. White Maxine died in 2001. I miss her terribly even now. I can still remember that dayin September 1988 when I was a social worker in a crime ridden, gang infested and run-down Bronx neighborhood. I paid $2.00 to a crack dealer for a skinny, flea infested straydog. Since then, I’ve rescued … Continue reading For $2.00 She Was Mine
The Last Stop
By Angela Johnson When Alma Leblanc looked out the window of the office building at the shadows beginning to fall across the downtown street, she knew that she was late. She had been so busy organizing and hanging the paintings that the bank had commissioned that she didn’t realize it was after 7 o’clock. She … Continue reading The Last Stop
Hook for the Masterpiece and Other Poems
By Patricia Nelson Hook for the Masterpiece The weight of line and shade still hangs. A frame holds the glow they made of it: The kingdom of smoking fuels, the art with its light-craving dervish. Women made of shadow and the world. Brown rats that squeaked and bit them. Crowns of dead metal stamens. … Continue reading Hook for the Masterpiece and Other Poems
Evocation
By Kathleen Glassburn Judith rips open an envelope from the county and pulls out a pink paper. It’s not a photographed traffic violation. She received one of those last year and paid a 240-dollar fine. It didn’t go on her record, but it’s made her even more careful. In all her forty-five years, this is … Continue reading Evocation
Meditation and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Meditation Meditation Concentration Never succumb to Manipulation Achieve Power And Authority Through sincerely and untainted Purity Stay green and gold Like the beauty of silent nature Umbrella Shelter from The natural elements A roof Supposedly Singing in the rain Assuaging disdain Singing a new refrain Water falling Down and around But … Continue reading Meditation and Other Poems
Scratching on the Walls and Other Poems
By Catherine A. Coundjeris Scratching on the Walls My Mom has since passed away, but she was with us when I wrote this poem. Cheyanne stayed up with me that night, watching as we heard scratching on the walls. I turned on the light, set the table, and poured the drinks and heard scratching. … Continue reading Scratching on the Walls and Other Poems
Gegenrasse and Other Poems by Okpeta, Gideon Iching
Gegenrasse A Song for Our Hue The living space birthed beautiful flowers, rivalry enhanced her colour, rose from obscurity to power in the land of the living. Prisoners boarded a taxi, drove unwillingly to serve the light gray suit for wearing natives in pink― able-bodied sapiens messed over in mercy of their colour. Then it … Continue reading Gegenrasse and Other Poems by Okpeta, Gideon Iching
Academy of the Heart And Mind 