By Jim Bates Set firmly in the ground It had its own spot in the backyard A heavy-duty metal post with wooden arms attached Held together with clothesline rope A lever controlled it going up and down A thing of mechanical beauty Simple utility and grace His mother hung sheets from it every week White … Continue reading Clothes Pole
Speak
By Sandy Rochelle Every once in a while you open your mouth as if to speak. To abandon the silence that has been your companion. Your unspoken words are wrapped in gold. Your conjured verbs bathed in silk. Speak and abandon your silence to an Egyptian tomb. Hieroglyphics to be deciphered by some future species … Continue reading Speak
Irregardless
By Mike Turner Does’t thou wield thy blade? Slashing at mine liberty? Stabbing my heart? Thrusting to the very centre of my soul? Should I not yield to your blandishments? And implore you to bind up my wounds? For is not true ardor Surrendering all to the struggle? Facing the furies in consequence of losing … Continue reading Irregardless
Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields and In Dreams
By J.R. Barner Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields1 I had been up all night with a fever. She placed a cold rag on my head, Faithfully, every hour when the grandfather clock in the hall had ceased to strike. She would emerge from behind the antique chest of drawers Like a ghost, hovering over to me, … Continue reading Goodbye Parliament Hill Fields and In Dreams
All Those Crazies
By Laura Stamps Daffodils. That’s what she wants today. Something light. Cheerful. Nothing dark. No. Not today. She looks through the box. Her collection of postcards. Finds it. A daffodil. That’s the postcard. Yeah. That’s the one. “Dear Elaine,” she writes. “This book I ordered. You know. From Amazon. It came today. Picked it up … Continue reading All Those Crazies
Without Your Love and Other Poems
By Darren B. Rankins Without Your Love The autumn leaves that descend upon my heart soon blanket the world with despair. Free from compassion, love, and forgiveness, a sweet goodbye. A perfect picture of a darkened sky and a graveyard of lost souls without a way home. Trying to distance myself from the screams, crying, … Continue reading Without Your Love and Other Poems
My Sand Mandala
By Ryan Larson Buddhist monks have a unique ritual of creating, I think, the most vibrant and visually stunning work of art ever. They place sand of many colors on a table together in a design that looks like what you would see on a Persian rug. The accuracy can be measured by millimeters, and … Continue reading My Sand Mandala
Want
By David L. Painter A multitude of colors drift by as mirrored streams reflection of the day appear as if they are so far away. Then the wind carriers that thought with it, I watch as the silhouette of it lingers and fades, was it really there? Or was my dream just a sad figment … Continue reading Want
If You Run and Other Poems
By Alexis Tolkkinen If you run If you run from yourself you run from the creator, and like jonah you too will be thrown back to shore three days you will sit in despair three days you will die without seeing death three days until you resurrect washed away by memories only found in pain, … Continue reading If You Run and Other Poems
Hope is a Decision
By Sangita Kansal Originally published in Indigo Dreams in February 2023 To bloom with hope is a decision And so is to wither with pessimism. The fainthearted succumb to negativity Etching out lives of misery. Dispel the thick clouds of darkness By radiant flames reaching nirvana. Ignite the spark of light, With a spiritual torch … Continue reading Hope is a Decision
Academy of the Heart And Mind 