By Paweł Markiewicz The enchanted moon is solely for you. You are doing the sempiternity herein on earth. You guardian angel conjure dreams of me. So marvelously-propitiously your heavenly mirror shines. The courtly love to the angellet are sorceries. In your vans reveries live. I like you, the angel, drunken with a magnificence of dew, … Continue reading The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
Contest Announcement
Springtime Contest March 01- April 3, 2020 It's time for our next contest! Our editors are looking for a way to say goodbye to Old Man Winter and welcome the upcoming Spring season. We are looking for poems, short stories, and art pieces which celebrate Springtime. They can be from any genre. The requirements: Entries … Continue reading Contest Announcement
Poems by James Mulhern
The Crosswalk Today I saw a father and son stepping onto the crosswalk. I braked and watched them pass. Son on father’s shoulders, headed to the park with swings. I drove on, thinking of you and wondered why you never lifted me and held my legs or brought me to the swings. But … Continue reading Poems by James Mulhern
The Wild Hare and the Golden Eagle
By Nardine Sanderson The wild hare and the golden edge. On the hillside past the woven pathway lays the golden edge of daffodils with loyal faces in the light I rubbed my eyes in comparison they too looked towards the glare And wonderful was that view, I could not help but stop … Continue reading The Wild Hare and the Golden Eagle
Haiku by Thomas Page
The november rains Pour down into the foggy Plains b’low hidden sun. The faux-jade apple On the faux-mahogany Desk. Are these hands real? I cannot name the Stars more ancient than I am With lights eclipsed now. The trees grew orange-red, The others stayed green-yellow, The trunks look the same. The palm-reader’s map-- Like … Continue reading Haiku by Thomas Page
Friend’s Departure
By Sahaj Sabharwal Time has come now , For an ending, wow. Your friendship will be no more, Your absence will make things bore . Gossips with friends , Learning new trends . Talks with us , you did , Forever, you are alive in our mind . It's time to say you goodbye, … Continue reading Friend’s Departure
The Untranslatable: Lagom
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. During one of the scored years in school I was required to take a mathematics course “for liberal arts majors” Consisting of … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Lagom
The Untranslatable: Prozvonit
By Thomas Page This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. I had to give phone number out like the loaves and fishes when I was finishing school And entering the the brand-old world of … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Prozvonit
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Draughty Winds Those minor things of no report - but I first found them there - make mark more than bedpost notch, and vivid, forty on. The old bus they drove us touring though southern states at war - grandiose white churches, some black guy cutting lawn. Between gigs we slept coach seats, … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Poems by Ahmad Al-Khatat
Be Stronger Stronger than before I’m here under rainfall Getting stronger than before, because of you Stronger than feelings I’m wiser, and faster than the curious heart breaker We’re stronger than love You once made me happy I melted my heart into steel Just to always remember you Harder, better than memories Your friendship … Continue reading Poems by Ahmad Al-Khatat
Academy of the Heart And Mind 