HEY,WHO IS THERE? I will leave just nothing behind. Where am I going like a Gypsy cart? I need a way, remote and wide. ''Hey, who is there?'' I call out with my silent tongue. No sailor hears, no pilot catches my sight. The sweet dreams no longer bother my heart. The desire for … Continue reading Poems by Anahit Arustamyan
Alphabets: Phi
By Thomas Page There is a balance of things made by hands That pleases its eyes in its accordance To what should be and what will be Crafted in the image of something more than itself. This ratio called golden by the eye Sits like a shell circling on itself Like the Uzumaki upon itself … Continue reading Alphabets: Phi
Poems by Barbara A Meier
Sea Glass The sea is glass today broken glass sharp, silver shimmerings with latte foam Khaki green slithering up the strand leaving venom pools making a milkshake of poison by sticking a blender into the magic mirror. Sea Foam Seafoam tumbling down the beach like tumbleweeds crossing highway 4 blowing themselves out with the … Continue reading Poems by Barbara A Meier
Alphabets: Upsilon
By Thomas Page The quality of mercy— The groves of the heart— Seem to bloom when the air is ebullient And wither when the air is dense With the situations associated with the hurricanes Gusting away all senses humane. However, the fruit of mercy should not be confused with the seeds of discontent Which like … Continue reading Alphabets: Upsilon
Poems by Meg Smith
What a shadow wants Some landscape of music, where you fall in the dark places and silence. Some wall where they leap, like strangers amid a fire, dancing. To become, and then recede -- light will fail you. Night will become me. Lilith Everything Each day more beckon, with copper necklaces, prayers on … Continue reading Poems by Meg Smith
Alphabets: Tau
By Thomas Page There’s something comfortable in what the Modernist hated— The risk of routine settling fauve motions into mechanics-- That define the human part of the spirit The need for consistency in each experienced sunrise That sets the stage for the actions most desired by the critics The permanent fourth wall that looks at … Continue reading Alphabets: Tau
Poems by J.S. MacLean
Roots and Hooks the last sips taste missing stories slipping into small days . . . life has no recipe of elements chosen from stone age caches of hunger seeds kept dry until tears awaken them to acquaint the salt marsh with the dance of tides sound seeps rippling the moment as code … Continue reading Poems by J.S. MacLean
Poems by Kushal Poddar
Hymn For My Ears Their magnet points, now a few thousand years later, do not bend when you call my name. They seemed spectral, figmental, until hearing narrowed. Now I know they exist although you’re not so sure. Past sends a message through a ham radio. Present hears white butterflies covering a … Continue reading Poems by Kushal Poddar
Alphabets: Sigma
By Thomas Page My many years can be summed in on a transcript Marking each of my earned three-hours with a letter And a decimal’d point to a larger number That makes me summa or magne or not At the end of it all on a May day. Can I sum it all up in … Continue reading Alphabets: Sigma
Poems by Gloria Buckley
I AM THE RAIN I am the rain That drips down my palms And nourishes the trees The flower, the dirt I am the mud that soaks up All the water And I am the well And the drink I swallow From the rain that flowed Into the well Which was the water That soaked … Continue reading Poems by Gloria Buckley
Academy of the Heart And Mind 