By C. Toto Zaremba We used to walk here together. We wondered who the people were And who they left behind. We knew them only as names on stones. We knew they were no longer here. Your name is not on a stone. You would never sit here quietly. I don't come here to visit … Continue reading Not Here
Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters and Other Poems
By Yuan Changming Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters 说 /shuo/: to say is to make an exchange in words 语 /yu/: language is defined in terms of what I say 课 /ke/: a lesson should be learned by talking about the result 谎 /huang/: to lie is to throw a remark from … Continue reading Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters and Other Poems
After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we … Continue reading After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
Uriel Fox and the Doomsday Prophesy
By John F. Zurn Uriel Fox often wandered through any number of forests between his visits to civilization. An expert explorer, he might spend several weeks in areas near the highway before returning to the open road. He almost never lost his way or encountered any situation he couldn’t manage. However, once in the middle … Continue reading Uriel Fox and the Doomsday Prophesy
World Away and Other Poems
By Allison Grayhurst World Away World away of hollows where light escapes, gets through, flourishes in the sluggish dream of humans. World of many layers – up to pure communion and down with the languishing un-animal beasts. Rivers that flow and merge, travel down. Oceans rise up, their surfaces new, surfaces discovered – air, sometimes … Continue reading World Away and Other Poems
Mr. Bear and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Mr. Bear Mr. Teddy Bear He is big and soft and good Much more than a toy Treasure Treasure this moment Express gratitude The Present moment The profound gift Of life In spite of the bleakness That characterizes modernity Reality reveals That there is so much beauty In the world … Continue reading Mr. Bear and Other Poems
Changeling II and Other Poems
By C.G. Nelson Changeling II There is a shift in me— One I can hardly explain. I’m a different person Than I used to be. I don’t know What to tell you. How can I tell you Anything when I don’t even know The how or why or Even the when Of the thing. … Continue reading Changeling II and Other Poems
Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
By Vishnu B. Unnithan Brewing Success from Disaster I should be excited, like waiting to meet my lover, since each day presents opportunities galore. However, anxiety is my daily chore. It rattles me to the core. I analyse, plan and think some more. I should be sparkling with anticipation, like waiting to meet … Continue reading Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
Words
By Deeksha Makhija I wonder what happens to words when they are left unread all their lives? Do they sob in tears while remembering the tears of their creators? Do they talk? What happens to all those books that are kept at the end of a room full of books' stacks? Do they smell … Continue reading Words
What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
What Do Poets Do what do poets do when they rise up in the light of morning from the floor of the sanctuary of illusion and wipe with a coat sleeve an open wound from which the life of history drains and shake the sweat of saturation from behind a brow, a paper wall when … Continue reading What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
Academy of the Heart And Mind 