By Anthony Ward Getting On As we grow older, We become firmer. Rigid with responsibility- Making us brittle. When you’re young, You’re soft and ductile. You don’t feel hurt The way we do. Where we were once quite agile, We’re now quite fragile, Much stronger in mind, Than when we believed we were. A Fine … Continue reading Getting On and Other Poems
Nature Photography
By NIGHTMAN Photographer's Note: I usually don't say anything on my work but this time I decided to say some words because some people may do complete misinterpretations like one of my friends. Indeed art perception is subjective but let me say that my main issue is just and just loneliness and also absolutely nothing … Continue reading Nature Photography
Emptied of Desire and Other Poems
By Richard LeDue Emptied of Desire The dark circles under my eyes are hallow, the pillow a sponge for my sweat, blankets too easily pulled away in the middle of the night, and the dream journal from my youth full of crooked words, describing eyelids that dared to take shape among the space between stars, … Continue reading Emptied of Desire and Other Poems
At Forlorn Days
By Ezekiel Angela Iyeh Birds sang porch songs no more when the earth swallowed a woman, a heart as sweet as melon. Stillness framed the hearts of her sons and daughter. Dawn came wobbling, like the rolling of pages in the wind, summoning the spirit of sorrow with dark clouds as light glowed away like … Continue reading At Forlorn Days
Steps Away from Pragmatism
By Thaddeus Lee There’s a place where all of us go. It’s not far from here. Simply a few steps from the corner store and a block or so from Times Square, and you’ll be there with us. A place to be free. A lush landscape of green hills overlapping each other until they meet … Continue reading Steps Away from Pragmatism
White Rains and Other Poems
By Lorraine Caputo White Rains I. Afternoons the heavens grey, layer upon thick layer of looming clouds, thunder crumpling then silenced by the rain that dampens lanes, streaks white-washed walls of Ciudad Blanca. II. Sometimes the thunder awaits the dusk to sweep the streets clean of another day. III. One late day, as the sun … Continue reading White Rains and Other Poems
The Pickle Jar and Other Poems
By John T. Walsh Jr. The Pickle Jar There was a jar without a label on a mantle on the wall Care was always taken to insure it didn’t fall…. Gramp said it held treasures that I couldn’t see at all That night he pulled the sofa out with a night-light in the hall “Lie … Continue reading The Pickle Jar and Other Poems
Leeches
By Jim Bates It was a hot August dawn. We were on the city dock, dangling our feet above the water. The sun was rising orange above the trees. The lake stretched out in front of us, waves rippling with a few ducks floating nearby. I hardly noticed any of it. Davy had driven us … Continue reading Leeches
How to Make Happiness
By Amrita Valan Can you tell me? How to be bouncy old-fashioned Resilient? And so happy? Somewhere inside The springs got broken And now I fall so flat So very flat inside A cardboard cut out. Walking around Like the shadow of myself On bare non reflective walls. Tinkering with well being I polish the … Continue reading How to Make Happiness
Shahtoosh
By Reena Kapoor Originally published in Literary Yard This is the third time in three months that she’s called. I hesitate. I want to help. Gosh, I’d love to help. What an example, a woman like her could set! Especially in our community, our well placed diaspora, our model minority. But I’ve been in this … Continue reading Shahtoosh
Academy of the Heart And Mind 