By Alex Andy Phuong Uniting uniformed unity You and I defy the sky Team work and collaboration Up to personal discretion Civil Rights Civility Minorities against majorities Stick to the status quo But should we...? Really? Defy thy stars And seek new avenues Harness the power of creativity And merge sense with sensibility "Utopia" … Continue reading Resisting Arrest
Poems by Dan Gallagher
The Space You Left I never knew if you mowed in a way to intimidate me Always the same Doing it backwards, so you had to stand in the flower bed With the petals like sheets twisted up and away from your figure Looking out in secret to see if I’d lost interest My low … Continue reading Poems by Dan Gallagher
Poems by Nardine Sanderson
Land and sea when angels fall. ________________________________ I did not fall to call your pain, or break ones heart so soft again, I felt such love within no doubt Like heavens precious rain A magical voice I heard by ear, and eye to dwell a lonely tear, to touch the pages of your words Bought … Continue reading Poems by Nardine Sanderson
Poems by Paweł Markiewicz
The victory ode to the dreamy peace My poesy is for you - peace - invocation that enchanted peaceful birds at adoration. The peace as ghost needs also become a lily. My fire for the sake of the peace flies blissfully. I like valedictorians from Ivory coast, carrying a weird of peace such a druidic … Continue reading Poems by Paweł Markiewicz
Poems by Ann Christine Tabaka
Garment of Pain Trying to forget pain sewn into the hem of my life, with stitches straight and precise. No scissor can cut me free. Adamantine thread of dolor, pulled tight, knotted and tucked deftly. Perfect garment of malaise, worn without a thought of redemption. Cold truth filtrates through loose woven cloth. Frayed edges … Continue reading Poems by Ann Christine Tabaka
Two Poems by Wayne Russell
as i close the door candlelight flickering doused by silence 20 years and you etched in the throes of a lingering memory. moments are shards of glass shattered upon the shore seagulls carry my soul back to shore basking in the winter sun i find solace as i slowly close the door on what was … Continue reading Two Poems by Wayne Russell
The Untranslatable: Viitsima
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. Roses are red Violets are blue Writing poems is tiresome And sleep long overdue. I’d rather nap like a tomcat Nestled … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Viitsima
Poems by Lisa Rutledge
Troubled Tides The vacationer ventures out to meet the cresting waves which rise to meet her, buoyed by balmy breaths of wind. Translucent fish frolic beneath the turquoise sea, tickling the invader from the crushed-coral sand. She stubs her toe on shells uncovered by the tide as she sways to and fro on the ever-present … Continue reading Poems by Lisa Rutledge
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Inhibitors When they die I truly live, inhibitors put in their place, reveal the well wrapped, buttoned me. The sunshine strip has sloughed the outer layers off, factor eight, nine or ten cannot protect from running blood. Your distress, your unease, is at honesty, not my disease. What a dangerous globe it is when … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Poems by Phoebe Marrall
THE SAME PRIVACY These I saw: small onions laid with their root discs punctuating the longitude poles. Polar caps, yes, navels to the earth where their buried unions still hold. That space along the stalls, unpeopled on this damp morning, stops me (for it insists), with the white parking lines leaping to the … Continue reading Poems by Phoebe Marrall
Academy of the Heart And Mind 