Antidote 37 on an Easter pandemic Sunday, Timid not triumphant, an ailing alleluia this year. All of us waiting ripe for resurrection of the holy personal calendar. In time, repentance. I recall only blankly baking cake on a lark, three layers and your three years. Darling dove. Earth is solid under … Continue reading Two Poems by Laura Smichak
What If?
By Nancy Lou Henderson What if a new Virus came to town, having no vaccine around? What if it threatened all humankind, making essentials hard to find? What if people had to stay at home, not allowed to roam? What if children were out of school, with parents becoming the new teaching tool? What if … Continue reading What If?
Four Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Choose Choices Carefully and Cautiously The power of choice, A wide variety Of potential disarray Question the nature of existence Ask what it means to be alive Within a highly subjective reality Where truth could be false And false could be reality Understand that Everything really is A matter of selection Fight? … Continue reading Four Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
The Sound of Rain How strange and how familiar to hear the sound of rain falling outside my window. It is a good thing, this rain, when it is falling so gently. There are no more leaks in the roof. The sound of rain is soothing. I want to crawl back in bed and sleep … Continue reading Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Ode to the Beach
By Dianne Moritz Oh, to walk on the beach these spring afternoons. To enjoy lapping waves, and slide down big dunes. To watch sea birds playing, hear loud seagulls' squawks. To spot pretty seashells, crabs, clams, osprey hawks. To exult in fresh air, feel mist on my face. Oh, to take a beach walk, … Continue reading Ode to the Beach
Three Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Sanga Wrap, face, skin reflecting pile pineapples, toothy sarong fruit vendors sentry corners, slow spiral screw to mountains drag-drawn from flatland haze. Lushed tier paddies, suspended tanks, glitter dun-lime battle grounds, side-step from trunked trunk haulers, gross chink-link necklaces, chained to logs and bored mahouts; noising in the jungle edge, pale emerging stolid heads, … Continue reading Three Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Two Poems by Andrew Scott
Not Tonight She puts her face into another school book Each new subject deserves a new look Only a little over a year to meet the end game Where she can put well deserved initials after her name Now, endless papers to write, books to read Never letting rest be a mental need Each day, … Continue reading Two Poems by Andrew Scott
Tarnished Crown
By John Goodie Something stirs within my heart In Times like These When horrors strike. The plague has come To clear the earth. Who knows how long That fire might burn? Will Death snag a glut Of Souls? Who knows how long That we must fear? Or should we Dear? … Continue reading Tarnished Crown
Amnesia
By Mike Turner I do not remember my birth Nor the exquisite bliss that preceded it When my soul was contained Not by my physical body But by the essence Of all existence Combined As a part of Creation I will not remember my death When I leave this mortal shell And my soul is … Continue reading Amnesia
I Tried An Internet Challenge and It Went How You’d Expect
By Thomas Page Self-Imposed challenges exist in every corner of the internet. If you were to look back, you would find people planking on top of garbage cans, standing still while a camera zooms around them, and, supposedly, eating laundry detergent pods. While most of these challenges exist in tandem with hashtags that are … Continue reading I Tried An Internet Challenge and It Went How You’d Expect
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