By Nardine Sanderson One day I stand to lose you For in life we live and die We feel the beauty and take it in Just Like the bluest skies If I compared your heart to flowers, would you grow back once seasons range, I hadn't thought much of it till now In love … Continue reading One Day I Stand To Lose You
Poems by Kelli J. Gavin
The Road Home I have walked one too many roads. A few stray paths have distracted me. Not always sure where I was going Or why I was called away Home should be where the heart is But sometimes my heart would fail A faulty human with a messy soul At least I thought I … Continue reading Poems by Kelli J. Gavin
Yearning
By Jay M. If my words were leaves, What a bonfire they would make, Raining down on a cold night, Items of the fall, to keep you warm, Alive in the shimmering moonlight; To wrap you in lustre, at beck and call, Every Dawn of the fall. If my words were the stars nigh, … Continue reading Yearning
The Park Bench
By Nancy Lou Henderson What a drab day, Elsa thought to herself as she stood at her office window. Elsa prayed the rain would stop and the skies would clear by lunchtime. The park was her refuge while eating her lunch. Elsa had a favorite bench where she sat, ate her lunch, and watched … Continue reading The Park Bench
Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Exeunt Your spiteful smile— flashing in the doorway— etched itself as if my memory were metal plate. Ambiguous carving— there is time to decipher it, but not endless time. Lightning flashes, illuminating you. Then darkness. Metal man, tin-thin, I am unassailable, but the imprint’s part of me: glancing behind your shoulder, hair half-veiling your … Continue reading Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Three Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
The Ultimate Stage Social hierarchy Filled with diversity Colorful iridescence Aesthetic decadence There might be evil in the world but there is still hope for the ones who dream No matter how hard life may seem Celebrate life and cheer for the dreamers Pursuing passions respectfully The Light Ascending Light in August American landscape … Continue reading Three Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by John Grey
MORNING AT THE COTTAGE A gift from night chill, from the dry wind grace, from the incomparable red-rimmed morning sunlight in a slow spread everywhere... deep the earth becomes, endless mystic fervor; feel the freshened wind through oak's forked bough, fragrance of honey from each old hollow. Shadows spread far, strike the nostrils in a … Continue reading Poems by John Grey
Real Estate
By Alex Andy Phuong Room A Room of One’s Own Castles Mansions Apartments Houses Condos Condominiums Dorms Dormitories Duplex School Wuthering Heights Thornfield Pemberley Tara Manderley Darlington Hall Artificial Architecture Imaginary Physically Spiritually sublimely House of Lancaster House of York The War of the Roses Blending Unifying sanctuary The White House Earth Home … Continue reading Real Estate
New Life
By Alex Andy Phuong 2020 New Decade New Beginning Years after graduation But learning forevermore Expressing gratitude for acquiring knowledge Yet never forgetting what was taught in kindergarten Play nice Be nice Do not judge books by their covers (not to mention people) Because a cover really is not always the book Open eyes … Continue reading New Life
Letter Writing
By Jim Bates The week before breaking for the holidays in December Sue Beasley teaches a section on letter writing in her sophomore English class. She always begins this way, "Okay, show of hands. How many of you regularly write letters?" It's a loaded question because it's a rare hand that goes up, especially given … Continue reading Letter Writing
Academy of the Heart And Mind 