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. Have you ever tried to put out a fire at a banquet Only to have the reams of white set ablaze after she … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Verschlimmbessern
Autumn Leaves
By Jim Bates We waited off to the side for our order, all three of us quiet, unused to this. Sure, we'd eaten at McDonald's before but not under circumstances like these - me taking Sammy and Elise out after school because I couldn't take them back to what used to be our home. Lynn … Continue reading Autumn Leaves
Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Skittles with planets An amethyst, he said slamming down the prayer beads. talking above the nauseous fumes of camphor and incense he drew skewed circles intersecting subsets - seventeen of them jotting numbers on a paper that presumably charted the rebel trajectory of all the wayward moons and wastrel stars that had driven me to … Continue reading Poems by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A Blinding Light
By Mehreen Ahmed Just when Lizzy Crimson was leaving the art exhibition, a black and white picture hanging on the far side of a wall caught her attention. It was unbelievably mesmerising, and surrealistic. It looked like a downing of the sun at night. But the bright light that it emanated were white and diffused. … Continue reading A Blinding Light
Poems by Umar Yogiza Jr
the silent bird in us with broken wings this is the silent hum of a bird in us with broken wings remember all the sacrifice that has gone into this healing— elope if it's the only chance of your survival call out to ahmadu bello of more than fifty years ago if … Continue reading Poems by Umar Yogiza Jr
Poems by Pat St. Pierre
Memories of You Memories of you haunt me while sleeping. I ask myself why they disturb me so. I wake from memory like dreams and fear makes me tremble. I want to remember the good times but all that enters my mind is a fearful memory of you. The happy times existed but your rage … Continue reading Poems by Pat St. Pierre
Key Elegies
By LA Felleman Jumble drawer puzzle you turned and opened I wish I could recall what Were they important those objects you secured? Have I left them vulnerable or locked away never to be seen by me again? Forgive me key to something or other for my failing to recognize I make this promise … Continue reading Key Elegies
The Untranslatable: Poronkusema
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. My father bought us one of those fitness-watches— The ones with the app— To ensure that we would be walking every … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Poronkusema
Weird of Dreams
By Pawel Markiewicz Weird of the dreams there are finitely October-ides meek shooting stars – the friends of nighttime have fallen afore the visit of the morning star – the boon Venus I was able to feel their eyesome miraculous silence a dreamier eviternity belongs to me I can think of its waking dreams about the … Continue reading Weird of Dreams
Like Kant and Hölderlin Withal
The ontological new-Romantic period according to Paweł Markiewicz This is a philosophy, that Paweł Markiewicz has drafted. Proceeding from the Kant´s sentence: „The bestarred heaven above me, the moral law in me”. There are on earth: the human part down below and the starry section up there. One reaches for the stars, longs for them, … Continue reading Like Kant and Hölderlin Withal
Academy of the Heart And Mind 