By Alex Andy Phuong 2020 New Decade New Beginning Years after graduation But learning forevermore Expressing gratitude for acquiring knowledge Yet never forgetting what was taught in kindergarten Play nice Be nice Do not judge books by their covers (not to mention people) Because a cover really is not always the book Open eyes … Continue reading New Life
Ask Me Not Why I Love You
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein I love you more than Myself, And I shall remain to love you like this, If you ask me, why I love you, I shall tell you, there is no reason for falling in love. Love happens spontaneously, Without reasons and thoughts. In my life you are the one, To … Continue reading Ask Me Not Why I Love You
Haiku by Paweł Markiewicz
1. TENDER VANS a broad-leaved garlic I begin thinking about his - vans of soft dreams .............................. 2. PHILOSOPHY wood garlic in holt philosophizing for you - begin and finish? ………………………………………. 3.LONELINESS holt full of ramson broken vans are lonely - woe to nothingness! ………………………………………. 4.SHROUDED IN DREAMY SPRINGTIDE ramson in springtide nothingnesses such an … Continue reading Haiku by Paweł Markiewicz
At the Top of the Hill
By Ian Copestick As I stand at the top of the hill I gaze down onto a blanket of orange street lamps, mixing in with the deep, dark purple sky. It's a strange time, spring is knocking at the door, but winter is dragging it's heels. Holding on with storms Ciara and Dennis, battering us … Continue reading At the Top of the Hill
Faded Embers
By Jay M Oft of an exquisite dawn, Your thoughts come to me; As memories of a languorous nights sibilance of silk, Embers fanned along an amative lines curve. Of the wind that awaited instructions, To carry cries of amatory depths explored; Whispered bliss a cadence sheathed by moonlit silver. Oft of an exquisite … Continue reading Faded Embers
Feet Will Walk Forever
By Ian Copestick All afternoon, the snow it fell and the city came to a standstill. Just a light dusting, an inch or so, and no one knows how to drive. Me, I laugh at the fuming faces as I stroll on by. My shoe leather faster than their expensive engines. Which will soon … Continue reading Feet Will Walk Forever
The Untranslatable: Empêchement
By Thomas Page This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. Everyone expects the weekend to mean something more than the week Because we are not bound to the rock of the workplace That … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Empêchement
Five Poems by Pete Mladinic
Destitute in Eunice In Eunice no trees grow There are sand hills And as in Jal and Hobbs mistakes As in Jal and Hobbs families mourn Where we were five One says now we are four In Eunice wind shifts sand But the hills do not leave Mistakes are made people grieve … Continue reading Five Poems by Pete Mladinic
The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
By Paweł Markiewicz The enchanted moon is solely for you. You are doing the sempiternity herein on earth. You guardian angel conjure dreams of me. So marvelously-propitiously your heavenly mirror shines. The courtly love to the angellet are sorceries. In your vans reveries live. I like you, the angel, drunken with a magnificence of dew, … Continue reading The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
Poems by James Mulhern
The Crosswalk Today I saw a father and son stepping onto the crosswalk. I braked and watched them pass. Son on father’s shoulders, headed to the park with swings. I drove on, thinking of you and wondered why you never lifted me and held my legs or brought me to the swings. But … Continue reading Poems by James Mulhern
Academy of the Heart And Mind 