By Tim Law Will 2022 be like 2023? If so, my hope is that it’s over swiftly 2022 coming to an end Everyone around me seemingly going around the bend Work weighing heavily upon my mind Home life is not much better, smiles are difficult to find Everything seems to be spiraling to the end … Continue reading Work/Life (Un)Balance
One Beautiful Heart
By Mike Turner "One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces" - Shakespeare (provenance uncertain) Search all existence Land, sea, Earth, Heavens Seek not fame Fortune Power But the simplicity of comfort Compatibility Mutual respect Peace Love Looking past a thousand pretty faces To find one beautiful heart Upon which to hang Hopes, dreams And … Continue reading One Beautiful Heart
Haiku for Grandma
By Sun ShihMin Prunus* burns hard Await You come into her great—light—rustling arms *NotePrunus: Prunus taiwaniana Hayata :Endemic, in the central part of Taiwan. Also called Wusheh cherry. Dashing gurgling river Between the approaching dark and dawn A crane taking off Silent chime unfold: Dazzling home lanterns summer night Back home— Sun, Shih-Min ( H.S ) … Continue reading Haiku for Grandma
Tears
By Peace Tree Poetry Have you touched the rain and let its pearls tapdance on your skin? a reminder that salvation rests with those who see beauty in a storm like the eyes of a museum observer in love with art. how often the drifting winds toss droplets onto umbrellas, how often people fear water … Continue reading Tears
Better and Other Poems
By Chidozie Okonkwo Better I could do it better —teach you how to undo small things that take up big parts. —swim back to the land of origins, and become the ideal plot in the emotional narrative of the gods. We will dream dreams and take flights —of ecstasy and of glee. We will meditate … Continue reading Better and Other Poems
I Carry Their Dreams and Songs of Water
By Tajudeen Muadh Akanbi I Carry Their Dreams I carry them in my arms-the death of my blood, I carry them, as they dangled on my forsaken shoulders, after hugging with servitude and pain and neglect, that seems like an apparition of dead hopes. I saw arsenals knocking on my gates of peace, I saw … Continue reading I Carry Their Dreams and Songs of Water
Poem for Henry
By Jean Baur The first night it rained I thought of you In the garden, Getting wet, And the mother in me Wanted to bring you in. Wrapped in the orange towel Paws tucked together–you are Just the way you slept on the couch Except now you’re silent In the raw earth. I will plant … Continue reading Poem for Henry
What Could Have Been?
By David L Painter It was not so much as to who he was but what he might have been. Somehow the time seemed to have slipped by until 30 years had passed. Years of rising each morning clenching a black lunch pail spending 10 hours down in the steel mill only to return at … Continue reading What Could Have Been?
Dust and Other Poems
By Frances Gaudiano Dust I found the champagne bottle in the garage, Under your worktable. It was covered in dust, but still intact. A gift to us when we moved here, Was it only last year? I should have wiped the bottle clean. Instead, I tore off the foil and unwired the cork. I freed … Continue reading Dust and Other Poems
I Cost $19.99 and Other Poems
By Travis Weis I Cost $19.99 A raincoat drowns In a never-ending sea. I wonder if it remembers The shoulders it once protected, Or the winds it once broke. Does it know That nobody Will ever touch it again. Then I remember, Raincoats aren’t supposed To think of these things. And so, I go to … Continue reading I Cost $19.99 and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 