By Angel André Osorio Building as a Layman Beautiful struggle. Maybe, at the end of the day It is true that, Instead of trying to carve out & neatly stack Impeccable blocks of ivory and marble, We should try to build a home With the endless but seldom useless Piles of rubble The explosions of … Continue reading Building as a Layman and Other Poems
In Grace
By Vanja Malathy age advances crazy thoughts confuse my mind spins thinking of my loved ones departing… I shudder death in sleep when I think of my father’s silent rest, a sudden blackout relates my aunt's final sleep, muscles stiffen in numbing cramp with memories of my uncle’s silent collapse, an after meal bloating sensation … Continue reading In Grace
Permanent Sunlight
By Yariel Luna Oh, radiant orb, forever bright Endless days and endless night No stars to twinkle in the sky No moon to watch the oceans high The world’s forever bathed in light A never-ending, shining sight A world that never knows the dark Where shadows never leave their mark But what of sleep and … Continue reading Permanent Sunlight
A Minor Poet
By Tony Tinsley A Minor Poet I crave fame, but I’ll never write Of trees, or woods or tambourine players. No homage will I ever pen to ravens or albatross. Sleep is practice for death, But I’ll not rage against the night, Nor wail about captains, for I have none. I know not why the … Continue reading A Minor Poet
The Concert and Other Poems
By Anne Mikusinski The Concert At first, there’s Silence. Then Loops and whorls of sound Fill up the room Rising and falling Feeding on all emotion and Anticipation Of the waiting crowd A flash and flood of light Reveal The players, at their places Settled into Tonight’s temporary home And for a while No outside … Continue reading The Concert and Other Poems
Once Was Lost, Now Is Found
By Frances Gaudiano Since they had moved away from their old home, they didn’t go to London much anymore. Bella used to love visiting the big city with all its museums and theatres and activities. Her daughter loved to go for the shopping. They would usually make a deal that if they went shopping for … Continue reading Once Was Lost, Now Is Found
Opposites
By Shane Blades Your world had that verdancy found in the countryside While I felt all the tedium of a grey oppressed city When you heard the calling of the corncrake – a rarity now I listened to the constant conversation of diesels Finding myself too close to their heavy fumed breathing Your view saw … Continue reading Opposites
Love in Times of War
By Maliha Iqba Originally published in New Verse News The last thing that survives When the frightened mother Hides her littler children behind her In the face of the hard glint of a soldier’s gun The last thing that survives When the eldest child loses his childhood and innocence Because he is the only one … Continue reading Love in Times of War
Shine Taken and Other Poems
By Stephen Mead Shine Taken Hole where you were, hole where smell & sweat was a well of warmth. To sip from there was having parchment abruptly become leaves growing right out of the page: The book of you, the riddle in a face so unconsciously itself, so innately expressive yet almost totally mute, summoned … Continue reading Shine Taken and Other Poems
tatters and Other Poems
By RC deWinter tatters for all my years lived-in many universes of this many-colored world i’m sometimes an innocent more than aware of evil but often unable to comprehend its perpetration i would no more slander someone than try to fly without wings and being no angel surely have none though my tongue wags loud … Continue reading tatters and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 