By J.S. O’Keefe dread pulsates through the evening market under dying neon lights strange men armor shimmering prowl throughtheir eyes are hidden behind mirrored visorstheir movements seem smooth almost clinical I want to study their facesare they chiseled cold sullen do they have their own hopes secrets sorrows suddenly I can see one of them … Continue reading Evening Market
Once Upon a Rhyme
By Tim Law Once upon a rhymeA robin built a nestIt flew around the worldUntil it realized home is bestOnce upon a rhymeA rocket launched at noonIt swam through a sea of starsBefore landing on the moonOnce upon a rhymeI met a happy clownHe made up a songI sang alongMy frown turned upside downOnce upon … Continue reading Once Upon a Rhyme
Eerie Echoes
By Brenda Mox Into the flare of twilightwhere color is a field of possibilities,she disappears into the circle of breathing clouds to find refugein another realm where magic happens.Beyond a circle of the familiar,her path meanders according to whim.Each direction a world of uncertain futuresunwound through time and space.High on possibilities rife with paradox, her … Continue reading Eerie Echoes
A Voice Found in Silence
By Rabhya Patil “Open your mouth and allow the words to walk through the red carpet of your tongue, nothing to block.”I can’t. If I express through bunches of letters that must be neat, they will twist into threaded knots that cannot be undone by my thoughts, so bittersweet. I’m afraid the ghost eyes will … Continue reading A Voice Found in Silence
Black Lightning
By Bob McAfee You are the embodiment of a good thing coming in a small package, barely five feet tall and, let’s admit it, feisty as a sharecropper’s daughter ought to be.You carry a chip on your shoulder and the knowledge of space-time travel in your mind, three degrees in six years from MIT, a … Continue reading Black Lightning
Babe Without You Life Is So Blue
By H.L. Dowless Tears are rolling down my face,I simply don’t know what to do,My mind grasps not time nor space,Since I have no choice but to live without you.I well remember our walks through the park,I savor our picnics neath the weeping willow trees,I only want another pleasant stroll in the dark,Your beautiful face … Continue reading Babe Without You Life Is So Blue
Maine Sea
By Kelly Okoniewski My heartbeat follows the rhythm,Of the sound of the sea.Each wave a pulse of life,That is a part of me.Waves crash and smack the rock,Troubles in me stir.My turbulence manifest,With every roar and whir.Then the calmness of the tide,Brings peace to me.Everything else forgotten,Just me and the sea. Kelly Okoniewski is a … Continue reading Maine Sea
Nomads
By Sara Kaufman What a privilege it is to see this world through the wonder of a poetand the wander of a nomadtraveling at thirty kilometers per secondaround the light of our worldIt all started with fissionsome call it fictionbut I once watched a heart split in twoAfter all we all grewfrom the same moleculesDo … Continue reading Nomads
Day 199
By Kathleen O'Brien I don’t want to change,Or rather I do.I want to go back.Before the multiple tests not explaining the fatigue,the fever.Before the bright redblood on the beautiful blue linoleum.Before the call to 911.Before the two youngmen in their crispuniforms, vital enough butwaiting for two moreto carry John down thenarrow stairs.He was a big … Continue reading Day 199
Taking a Break
By Vern Fein We all need a break.A break from working,a break from kids,from our partners, from school, from God even.You choose your break.But can a break, break you?A private, bored with the play, took a break to down a drink.Left Abe at intermissionunguarded for a bit.A novice telegraph operator took a walk under the … Continue reading Taking a Break
Academy of the Heart And Mind 