By Susan Sanders Extinct a man whose name she can’t forget opened a heart’s door but later walked away and did not intend to harm anyone or be the last of his own kind Haunted Honeymoon Tucson, Arizona’s sunset bled when we read our vows, then scratched lucky lotto tickets before checking into The Hotel … Continue reading Extinct and Other Poems
Sunlit Garden Path and Other Poems
By Mary Bone Mary Bone’s poems were previously published at Best Poetry by Editor Guy Farmer Website: http://www.Bestpoetry.com Sunlit Garden Path A sunlit garden path, with roses in full bloom. The aroma is heavenly. It is a great place to relax and smell the flowers. Sentence Deconstruction I deconstructed a sentence broke it down to … Continue reading Sunlit Garden Path and Other Poems
The Enchantment of Living and Other Poems
By Marietta Lea B. Rosana The Enchantment of Living In the twilight of years bouts of pain, tints of joy, memories born of waiting of grace and ceaseless toil Who knows when sorrows come and where joy is to be found I come to terms with intense longing in this timeless journey to my home … Continue reading The Enchantment of Living and Other Poems
Fragments of Matter and Other Poems
By Anthony Ogbonnaya Chukwu Fragment of Matter Fragment of matter at the mercy of the gloom into which I have been cast, sailing to what prefaced the silent structures of the beginning to be found this time in silence or a kind of sound from a violin and the sort of pipe that the Munich's … Continue reading Fragments of Matter and Other Poems
Devlin’s Wife
By Lamont A. Turner Above two graves there stands a stone, proud with cross engraved, reared to praise the love that shone, while hiding love enslaved; for near it lays a lonely stone, cracked and worn and leaning, where sleeps the wife of Devlin in darkness blindly weeping: “How well I served the man I … Continue reading Devlin’s Wife
Shallow Pools
By Jack S. Pale in the moonlight skin crystal ball you might see through into the emptiness Contained in shallow barrels meant to hold much more than this but she is in there trying to fill- or make the barrels smaller Hardened footsteps a horse stomps through the mud getting stuck pushing, pulling yet standing … Continue reading Shallow Pools
Familiar Surroundings and Other Poems
By John Grey Familiar Surroundings We’re back and everything is how we left it: our feet walk in old footsteps, our hands leave fingerprint where fingerprints already are. We’ve been away some time, a month or more, but the familiar doesn’t change. One room still leads to another. The ceiling is where it’s always been, … Continue reading Familiar Surroundings and Other Poems
Boring Maureen and The Scan
By Maureen Barron Boring Maureen When I was small I hated my name why was I called Maureen? I wanted a nice name If I had a nice name not Maureen or Doreen I would be popular at school People with names like Julia Beverly, Fern or Celia had lots of friends and had surnames … Continue reading Boring Maureen and The Scan
Her Presence in the Mist and Reflections of the Wandering Spirit
By Elmedina Hota Her Presence Covered In Mist Originally published in Sanitarium Magazine, issue 42., 2011. Her pallor gleams under the midnight skies, her beauty indescribable, wrapped by the nocturnal mist, on the cold ground she lies, so pure and dreamy, to human's flesh unreachable Devils in orchestra played symphonies of Hell to her, admiring … Continue reading Her Presence in the Mist and Reflections of the Wandering Spirit
Proverbial Puppet
By Tryniti Thresher The real world says I don't know how to be a "real girl". That I own no purpose beyond escaping narcissistic hands dangling me about, and the twisted tiara of servitude laced with a taste of Stockholm Syndrome. Pulling at strings I jerk myself through life one wooden step at a time. … Continue reading Proverbial Puppet
Academy of the Heart And Mind 