By Vishnu B. Unnithan Brewing Success from Disaster I should be excited, like waiting to meet my lover, since each day presents opportunities galore. However, anxiety is my daily chore. It rattles me to the core. I analyse, plan and think some more. I should be sparkling with anticipation, like waiting to meet … Continue reading Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
Words
By Deeksha Makhija I wonder what happens to words when they are left unread all their lives? Do they sob in tears while remembering the tears of their creators? Do they talk? What happens to all those books that are kept at the end of a room full of books' stacks? Do they smell … Continue reading Words
What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
What Do Poets Do what do poets do when they rise up in the light of morning from the floor of the sanctuary of illusion and wipe with a coat sleeve an open wound from which the life of history drains and shake the sweat of saturation from behind a brow, a paper wall when … Continue reading What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
Why I Write
By Alex Andy Phuong Why do people write? What is the point of worrying about events, places, and characters created through the human imagination? They are not even real! Some people major in English while in college because they are bookworms. Sometimes they could be very similar to Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and … Continue reading Why I Write
And Ode to You and Other Poems
By Nardine Sanderson An ode to you An ode to you would so delight and kindle well the dark of night , where all but dreams do well provide a greeting met with either side, for heavens gates are bound in death, but I of love have living breath, and nothing ceased me to … Continue reading And Ode to You and Other Poems
Social Beings and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Social Beings All people All social beings Compassionate love Sentimental sentimentality Struggling For independence racial and gender inequality degrades All Fight against discrimination And Strive to Unify Sequence Sequential sequence Aging and longevity Forming the historic timeline Beginning past Present gift Unforeseeable future No need to fear the end … Continue reading Social Beings and Other Poems
They Are Seen By Me
By Jim Bates I really do see them, The souls of my dear loved ones, In the form of fluttering butterflies, Dancing across a sunny summer sky, Or in the colorful flowers blooming, Along the paths we walk, The roads less traveled. I see them dipping and diving, Like gulls and terns, Flying free and … Continue reading They Are Seen By Me
No Longer Hungry and Other Flash Non-Fiction
By Jeffrey Zable NO LONGER HUNGRY I walk into this sandwich place I’ve been to once before and notice immediately that all the tables are taken except one near the back. So I quickly walk to the counter to order a sandwich so that I can get that table before anyone else. I order my … Continue reading No Longer Hungry and Other Flash Non-Fiction
Capital Disappointment and Signs
By Arianna Sebo CAPITAL DISAPPOINTMENT Scissor Wizards hair whizzers extraordinaire buzzers and bleachers braiders and curlers lady with headphones greets me at the door she barely acknowledges I’m wearing no clothes she must be listening to a soap opera on those phones I watch her eyebrows flicker and twitch like a newly born caterpillar I … Continue reading Capital Disappointment and Signs
The Tourists of Sargasso Sea and Other Poems
By Thomas Page The Tourists of the Sargasso Sea Marine biologists have been baffled by the Sargasso Sea’s tubular tourists— The eel. The eel Seem to be the true Sexless Ageless Birthless Originless creature swimming along the warm streams. They have baffled the likes of philosophers and psychoanalysts With their knavish resistance … Continue reading The Tourists of Sargasso Sea and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 