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
Freedom
By JayM Walk lonely, through a trough, Blink, at a picture unseen, Eyes open, tears dried, Water to roots, Fruit unseen, Seeded, to the mind. Fogged, Absence, water to memories, Once, not to limit, Breath! Through a bird to fly; A flight of fancy, Born to thrive, Never in thought to die! In life … Continue reading Freedom
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
Alphabets: Nu
By Thomas Page I can’t seem to truly relax Like sink deeply into an armchair and ponder tea cookies relaxed Because of the access I have to everything I have to do Like a white rabbit burdened with a pocket watch Always late for something and early for nothing The muscles in my neck Tenses … Continue reading Alphabets: Nu
FLIP IT BABY
By Marc Carver I have to feel sorry for you if you really think you have free will. All these people that come randomly into your life you think you choose them. You think you pick when you are happy and when you are sad. You think you can walk down the street and avoid … Continue reading FLIP IT BABY
April Showers Contest- Poetry First Place
Precipitation By Bernadette Perez Billowing thick clouds overwhelmed the sky Rain trickled Washed away frowns Smiles gleam upon children’s faces Smooth comfort milked in warmth Curdles my soul Frost forms on open spaces A cold mist Frozen ice needles stand at attention Appearance of glass across the surface ................Twinkling beauty in the streets Frolic in … Continue reading April Showers Contest- Poetry First Place
Breathe In, Breathe Out
By Jessica Ricks Breathe In, Breathe Out Everything stops. Shaking hands, heart palpitations Throat tightens, There is someone standing on my chest Weighing me down. I am falling through space, accelerating, The world is a haze. My breath is stuck, oxygen deprived Concentration long gone. Breathe in, breathe out. Time freezes. Suddenly … Continue reading Breathe In, Breathe Out
Heart Seed
By James Diaz let it out let loose hold the air still (it's only weeping against the grain) you learn this thing on only two feet how stars will shine from afar and your life will always feel like this person that is standing too close those tiny wings beat you every time you … Continue reading Heart Seed
Mariposas
By Don Kingfisher Campbell Everyone can guess you put butterflies in my soul They've probably deduced I've felt a migration of feeling But do they know you are my Martin Luther King preacher for my poetic freedom I was once behind bars imposed by a closed-minded material marriage But my heart flamed inside through my … Continue reading Mariposas
Step Outside
By Don Kingfisher Campbell open door walk on water reflects pools around shoes feel grass blades between fingers grasp tree texture rough to stroking hand sense air flow over skin see clouds with moist eyes sky towers above buildings
Academy of the Heart And Mind 