By John Grey Where the Water Falls It cascades silver and foam from craggy heights down the rutted black face of sheer cliff. On contact with the river, in endless hiss, it replaces itself with more of itself. It cannot tie a shoelace, row a boat or boil a kettle. It merely does what I … Continue reading Where the Water Falls and Other Poems
After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we … Continue reading After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
Ms. Violet
By Danae Younge We ran through the dark, the bottoms of our shoes sinking into the sand with every step. Terry was too excited to allow that to slow her down, though, she raced towards the moving beam of light which rotated steadily from the lighthouse like a planet on orbit, illuminating little slivers of … Continue reading Ms. Violet
World Away and Other Poems
By Allison Grayhurst World Away World away of hollows where light escapes, gets through, flourishes in the sluggish dream of humans. World of many layers – up to pure communion and down with the languishing un-animal beasts. Rivers that flow and merge, travel down. Oceans rise up, their surfaces new, surfaces discovered – air, sometimes … Continue reading World Away and Other Poems
Gecko
By Fred Miller What a queer little fellow you are,your head cocked in question to my presence.If toe pads I had, I'd leap to your perchto see what you world's all about.Do I hear a click, a chirp?In defiance of me, I suspect.Oh, I'd lift that tail to show who's whoif unaware of your ability … Continue reading Gecko
Timely and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Timely Throughout the course of timeTimeless masterpieces continue to endureBecause of creative creationsThat suggest that hearts can be pureIf artists attempt artistryBecause even though everything has faultsIt is the treasure found deep within the soulThat can connect the heart and mindTo establish a sense of being wholeWhile acknowledging the ones who … Continue reading Timely and Other Poems
Play Dead and Other Poems
By Gale Acuff Play Dead I'm not afraid to die but I'm afraidanyhow, I'm not stupid even ifI'm only ten years old and I know deathcan come at any time, it took my muttout on the turnpike where it was prowling,death, not my dog, and struck him but good andleft him in the middle of … Continue reading Play Dead and Other Poems
Meliora and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Meliora Getting betterFeeling betterGratitude for being aliveLet the mind soarAnd strive for moreFor each person has only one life“Improve” is like“I am proof”That I can continue on this journeyKeep going until the end of timeFor the end is simply a normal elementOf the plot lifelineAnd life is truly sublime! Books and … Continue reading Meliora and Other Poems
Evening Bats
By Lydia Chapman My eyes trail the unpredictable trajectory of the bats’ swift fluttering motions. For a few hours they dominate and command the evening, black holes riding maverick wind currents, snagging all insects in their path ; only to dissipate with the dawning of morning, dismantled from their aristocratic status with a beam of … Continue reading Evening Bats
An Ode to Jane Austen
By Alex Andy Phuong Jane Austen had a reclusive lifeOne that is particularly obscureYet she wrote so much about romanceDespite hardly being able to have that one special danceThat her ideas about life and love still endure Pride and Prejudice is her most famous work of allOriginally titled First Impressions,It is where Elizabeth met DarcyAt … Continue reading An Ode to Jane Austen
Academy of the Heart And Mind 