By Ira Darmohrai it is not that important for me how old you are the length and colour of your hair the price of your sweater and how many pairs of shoes you have. tell me about the brightest moments of your life about bedtime rituals from childhood what gives you goosebumps and how … Continue reading It is not that important
Escape
By Ian Copestick As I walk there's a pleasant, green landscape full of young flowers, and trees so old. But it doesn't encapsulate the colours in my soul. There are dark, deep blues, purples and blacks Around the edges a crimson rage. Even now, I have to hold some of it back, or it would … Continue reading Escape
Poems by Robert L. Martin
Weavers of the Clay Fatherly fathers, potters of the clay, ambassadors of morality and knowledge, inheritors of obligations, relinquishing their self fulfilling desires, giving up their selfish dreams, molding their sons and daughters on the potter's wheel with sagacious hands and careful fingers, defining and representing moral integrity and providence, planting seeds in their minds, … Continue reading Poems by Robert L. Martin
Poems by Douglas Young
The Airport Intense faces all around: Black, white, yellow and brown; High expectations mixed with the mundane – No matter the motive, get to that plane. We fervently cling to the notion That the solution is in motion; So everyone’s in a hurry -- So focused, with no time to worry. If we just get … Continue reading Poems by Douglas Young
I Will
By Tammy Carter On this day I will marry you, I will take your hand today, and forever. I will be there for you from this day forward. I will treasure every moment. Your love your trust and your forgiveness. Not only will I stand beside you, but I will walk with you. When … Continue reading I Will
Peace Within
By Thembi Vuma As open as I am and as peaceful as my thoughts are now, I have been through the wilderness, At times felt like, I was climbing mountain Kilimanjaro and I couldn’t see the other side, My emotions roaring all day long couldn’t think straight, For my heart was not at rest, … Continue reading Peace Within
When I Conquer
By Ananya Bhardwaj When I conquer you, Let the mountains shake, Let the earth quake. Make them fear me, A void of strength, To overcome lengths, To build an empire, Stronger than the last, You need resistance, You need power, You need revenge. to avenge the wounds, dig deep and conquer. Rebel for your … Continue reading When I Conquer
Wet With Tears
By Thomas R. Bates I cannot get out of my head, Nor do I necessarily want to, The image of the one time you Wept, eyes red, wet with tears, During those last weeks of your Painfully slow decline into death. You seemed to face it and accept it So stoically without any regrets, But … Continue reading Wet With Tears
Poems by Antonina Rousskikh
Room One hundred people in a room Speak in a deafening drone But all I can hear are my thoughts, Vehemently fighting, crying, screaming Seventy-five people in a room Dance to the hypnotic rhythm But my fleeting feet take me away From the harrowing ringing in my ears Fifty people in a room … Continue reading Poems by Antonina Rousskikh
Poems by RC deWinter
Théros Summer now – the invisible shift into another quadrant of cosmic order, eclipses blueskied the harshness of an abducted spring hung on the gallows of the greedy Boreas, never satisfied, reluctant to surrender his hold on the natural workings of the universe to the soft hands of a woman – the gentle Kore, whose … Continue reading Poems by RC deWinter
Academy of the Heart And Mind 