By Paweł Markiewicz gallant butterfly I am godifying Your strong born from the starlets singularly wolf in Your call – a charm fulfilled the most tender weird aboveboard boar You are looking for the stream in druidic holt arcane-meek lynx I would know traces into charm of miracle the far-sighted fox You like flowers … Continue reading THE DREAMERY FROM PRAYER-BOOK OF AN ANTS
Poetry by Sam Rose
I am December I am December the colder, darker days, woolly jumper with sleeves to my fingertips, breath frosting the air. Central heating smell, oranges, cinnamon, evening filled with burning embers, I am December. I am days off laptops off, lights off, cake out, candles on, please, no song, everyone in the kitchen to … Continue reading Poetry by Sam Rose
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Primer I find my place to make my stand, measure with feet my dancing steps, create a fiction, nearer truth than factual paragraph of prose. My primer coat is Latin phrase or Anglo-Saxon early terms, then later English verbal words preparatory to painting phase. The seasoned shades now honeyed, waft, sensed … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Winter rain in my muse-like homeland
By Paweł Markiewicz the eyesome fay at the crack of dawn in winter is weeping the winter rain in the form of magnificent teardrops is dropping down it is to be mesmerized in glaciated dreams of muses the shepherd boy hears the falling of the more tender rain like meek tears the docile … Continue reading Winter rain in my muse-like homeland
FUN AND GAMES AT THE WILD ROSE CAFE
A villanelle by Dianne Moritz Sitting here in this funky Wild Rose Cafe, where there’s twenty-seven words for cool, women preen and dream, while men look down, masking boredom on their handsome faces. It’s all too obvious you’d have to laugh were needs for connection not so great. When you suggested we go … Continue reading FUN AND GAMES AT THE WILD ROSE CAFE
The Untranslatable: Zeg
The Untranslatable 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 By Thomas Page We used to have a word for the day after tomorrow. It was “overmorrow” Like the sun is over there Hiding … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Zeg
All things left unsaid
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein So many times I thought, I would forget myself, And open my heart to you. Placing my hand on your hand, gazing at you, I would say how much I love you secretly, my love. I thought of you as the God of mythology. Your face, your look and … Continue reading All things left unsaid
Poems by Nardine Sanderson
Songs of you, and songs of i. . ------------------------------------------------ I followed the sound Of several birds, who spoke of you, without ye' words.. a little song With highest tune They circled the sky' Beneath the moon Their nests awaited A feathers rest I felt there strongest Within my chest Your beating heart A love so … Continue reading Poems by Nardine Sanderson
Christmas Contest Honorable Mentions: Poetry
By Regina Elliot "A Mrs. Claus Heart" A Mrs. Claus heart, is to be giving, a woman- who cherishes Christmastide in all the months of the year, charity is a gift to her- that God knows she will share. "Christmas Moments" Shoppers buying their families' gift wishes, one with thoughts of hand painted reindeer … Continue reading Christmas Contest Honorable Mentions: Poetry
Christmas Contest 2019 Second Place Poetry: “Christmas Cheer” by Luisa Kay Reyes
In a world that is filled with distress The light can still shine in darkness For while there was no room in the inn The angels made sure it wasn’t the end. Ensuring as promised The Word became flesh To bring goodness on earth a refresh So that none who believe are a stranger To … Continue reading Christmas Contest 2019 Second Place Poetry: “Christmas Cheer” by Luisa Kay Reyes
Academy of the Heart And Mind 