By P. M. Flynn As I go higher, each cloud thins and fades again:less than I am, as wind rushes past broken skies. Autumn divides green and red leaves from each branch. They fall from the sky: brightness less than a harvest before summer’s indifference. A moment later the light moves: darker thoughts filter sun … Continue reading New Mist
The Human World
By Susan L. Pollet Dressed in fairy finery she announced that she has a problem, saying, unapologetically,that it is the human worldShe proclaimed that shewould not think ofbeing a tooth fairy,nothing so pedestrian,twirled her wand inan arcand created something betterthan what she was givenfive years onWithout a doubtwe all wanted in Susan L. Pollet is … Continue reading The Human World
Dreams
By Gary William Ramsey The cold winds of life Awakens the sleeping mind As dreams are pulled away from you And suspended in space and time. Then love is just a whisp of clouds Happiness a star unseen Until she returns to me Deep within my dreams. The midnight rain begins to fall Echoing her … Continue reading Dreams
Beaches
By N.T. Chambers What issurrenderedto others in lifeis never lost -merely scatteredlike so manyleaves among the time-warymoments of existencetransforming familiarlandscapesof what had beenbeforeinto nascent seedsof future dreamsthat will rise dune-likecreating endlesshorizons of unseenpossibilities N.T. Chambers, former teacher and therapist, writes about the emotions, events, and experiences intrinsic to the human condition. The author has had … Continue reading Beaches
Bouquet, Untouched
By Ariba Khan This work has previously been published on Write the World. A morning glory with wilted tendrils seres, desiccate with decay. Her veins no longer throb, She shrinks and withers away. Her tendrils coil no more; roots bleeding dry. Her petals fall apart, Beneath the tenebrous sky. Softly, sunk beneath the soil, alone … Continue reading Bouquet, Untouched
Days of Halloween: “The Friar’s Lanterns” by Nina Dinan
I saw the friar’s lanternsGo out among the tombsTo fetch the new arrivalsFrom out their lightless rooms. They flickered on the flowers,They bobbed among the stonesAnd slowly grew in numberAs souls departed bones. They floated to the chapelAnd vanished through the doorTo wake the ones who slumberedBeneath the chapel floor. I saw one in the … Continue reading Days of Halloween: “The Friar’s Lanterns” by Nina Dinan
Lake Breeze
By Amantul Iffat Farisha The grassy green mossesAround the little martyr’s graveThe lake water dancesIn tiny shiny waves. In mid summer’s sulky airThe little soldier playedThen bathed in the lake waterWith much merriment. There came a warIn the serene city of NaplesThe spirit of the little manDrove him to the wargate. The solemn breeze of … Continue reading Lake Breeze
Moons
By Autumn Williams I kept dreaming of stars and I was floating.They were disappearing from my view,one by one, quickly. The moon was behind where I was,and I didn't know if it had also gone.I wouldn't look back to see, there were too manyvanishing suns to count. I thought about their moons,and what their numbers … Continue reading Moons
Fall incoming
By Sara Stegen Waiting for the axe, the tree,the truth, the trunk,the infection of deceit,the infestation of the weeds of worry. When we fall, we fall. Sara Stegen is a Dutch poet and non-fiction author who writes about land, family, nature, and neurodivergence. Home is a boulder-clay ridge in the northern Netherlands where her bike … Continue reading Fall incoming
Apivorous
By Jubu Djanx A dying bee rests on the painted pavement of a rec-yardenclosure. How it got there when all inside so desperatelywant out isn’t beyond imagining. There are no bloomsto attract the bee, no floral scents, but many cells—as in a hive—populated by unrepentant and penitent, alike.The bee must’ve made a historic flight through … Continue reading Apivorous
