By Sarah Brennan I remained on the bench until it was no longer cold, long after my breathing regained its normal rhythms, and my tears had stopped flowing. Around me the garden was calm and quiet, but my mind still raced. I kept replaying the three days in March when my world changed. The teachers … Continue reading Rose Garden Refuge
The Time Was Right and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse The Time Was Right a pastiche on Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” He’ll rage against the dying of my light but old age took its toll along the way. He doesn’t know I think the time is right. Much wiser than he knows, I welcome night. … Continue reading The Time Was Right and Other Poems
Clothes Pole
By Jim Bates Set firmly in the ground It had its own spot in the backyard A heavy-duty metal post with wooden arms attached Held together with clothesline rope A lever controlled it going up and down A thing of mechanical beauty Simple utility and grace His mother hung sheets from it every week White … Continue reading Clothes Pole
Speak
By Sandy Rochelle Every once in a while you open your mouth as if to speak. To abandon the silence that has been your companion. Your unspoken words are wrapped in gold. Your conjured verbs bathed in silk. Speak and abandon your silence to an Egyptian tomb. Hieroglyphics to be deciphered by some future species … Continue reading Speak
Irregardless
By Mike Turner Does’t thou wield thy blade? Slashing at mine liberty? Stabbing my heart? Thrusting to the very centre of my soul? Should I not yield to your blandishments? And implore you to bind up my wounds? For is not true ardor Surrendering all to the struggle? Facing the furies in consequence of losing … Continue reading Irregardless
Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields and In Dreams
By J.R. Barner Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields1 I had been up all night with a fever. She placed a cold rag on my head, Faithfully, every hour when the grandfather clock in the hall had ceased to strike. She would emerge from behind the antique chest of drawers Like a ghost, hovering over to me, … Continue reading Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields and In Dreams
All Those Crazies
By Laura Stamps Daffodils. That’s what she wants today. Something light. Cheerful. Nothing dark. No. Not today. She looks through the box. Her collection of postcards. Finds it. A daffodil. That’s the postcard. Yeah. That’s the one. “Dear Elaine,” she writes. “This book I ordered. You know. From Amazon. It came today. Picked it up … Continue reading All Those Crazies
Without Your Love and Other Poems
By Darren B. Rankins Without Your Love The autumn leaves that descend upon my heart soon blanket the world with despair. Free from compassion, love, and forgiveness, a sweet goodbye. A perfect picture of a darkened sky and a graveyard of lost souls without a way home. Trying to distance myself from the screams, crying, … Continue reading Without Your Love and Other Poems
My Sand Mandala
By Ryan Larson Buddhist monks have a unique ritual of creating, I think, the most vibrant and visually stunning work of art ever. They place sand of many colors on a table together in a design that looks like what you would see on a Persian rug. The accuracy can be measured by millimeters, and … Continue reading My Sand Mandala
Want
By David L. Painter A multitude of colors drift by as mirrored streams reflection of the day appear as if they are so far away. Then the wind carriers that thought with it, I watch as the silhouette of it lingers and fades, was it really there? Or was my dream just a sad figment … Continue reading Want
Academy of the Heart And Mind 