By Vahid Husen Sayyad You are the only angel who come to my dream. With long brown curly hair and pink lips like rose. With the fragrance of purity you flow like a mild stream. I can feel myself alive again when you are close. With your smile, you give life to thousands of butterflies. … Continue reading The Only Angel
How We Leave and Other Poems
By Donna L. Emerson How We Leave Aunt Betty, my mother’s older sister, of the flaming red hair, fancy makeup, resembled a magazine model. Her clothing dramatic, stylish, often green or modern waves of pink and orange. In my school, girls with red hair never wore orange and said this was a rule that lasts … Continue reading How We Leave and Other Poems
Neath Shaded Trees
By Mike Turner Sun’s golden, setting rays Filter through verdant leaves Whilst a gentled, whispered wind Comforts with cooling breeze Arms’ strong, warm embrace On our hearts bestow their ease As a sweet and simple kiss Our passions lightly tease As twilight slowly fades And day’s memories we reprise Let us cross o’er yonder river … Continue reading Neath Shaded Trees
The Printer
By R. Shlesinger Berlin 1814 “You don’t do anything.” Bella’s voice hissed. “I do a lot of things.” “You sit at home and stare at the street.” “That can be dangerous as well.” “You’re nothing but a printer.” She spat the accusation out. “Men have been shot for that.” “You’re nothing. Who’d want to marry … Continue reading The Printer
The Kitchen Disaster
By Tim Law It was a scene of complete and utter chaos. There was only one word for a kitchen that was the equivalent of a culinary bombsite, pandemonium. With the last blue ribbon clutched tight in her hand, Mayor Sarah Robbins starred, gob smacked, scanning the Community Centre Kitchen in utter dismay. Maybe she … Continue reading The Kitchen Disaster
The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor and Other Poems
By John Maurer The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor As soon as I let myself in my head I tear it to pieces Gut my childhood memories Toss the liver of my birthdays Into a pan with coconut oil Harrow my hauntings with a hatchet Find my heart to be a puzzle short a piece Throw this into … Continue reading The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor and Other Poems
Burnt Lace and Other Poems
By Christian Garduno Burnt Lace It wasn’t music to dance to, it was music to fall in love with someone in your room to, to figure out what you were going to wear for them tomorrow, music to spin to, to lie down to, to close your eyes to, to escape inside, it was music … Continue reading Burnt Lace and Other Poems
Love at First X-ray
By Kunal Mehra “Move a bit closer to the board. There. Perfect,” he said, as he stood behind the X-ray machine. “Now take a deep inhale and hold it.” My chest was hurting and I wanted to let go and exhale, but I did what he asked me to. He wrapped up his work and … Continue reading Love at First X-ray
Limerosity and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse Limerosity: The Love of Light Verse There are those who think rhyming’s a curse and for poetry, nothing is worse. They’d bar patterns of rhythm which stow away with’m in lines which are simply adverse to the senses of those who converse in the hoity patois they rehearse, weaving nebulous phrases into … Continue reading Limerosity and Other Poems
Meteora and Other Poems
By Gail Nielsen Meteora Above a monastery between cross and sky she rose and took her place, sweeping arms the length of a stratus cloud lining and she was gone from me But not at Meteora Only the fringe of Zeus’s blue heaven below, olive groves softening cool moss under his feet of hot stone … Continue reading Meteora and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 