By Thomas Page The Purple Blossoms of Late Summer In the plot by my porch purple flowers have bloomed During the Roman’s esteemed month To speckle the onions and the leeks Looking as clean as the weeds In the summer’s rains and shines. How pleasant are these surprises of nature Which see the green … Continue reading The Purple Blossoms of Late Summer and Other Poems
Music Stillborn, or Just Interrupted and Other Poems
By Holly Day Music Stillborn, or Just Interrupted Strewn with the bones of sailors lured to its rocky shores By sirens singing songs of love and sometimes loneliness Arms outstretched to passing ships as if in joyous embrace. A broken heart floats on a cold, neurotic sea. The waters beat upon the beach in bone-crushing … Continue reading Music Stillborn, or Just Interrupted and Other Poems
Adamantine Redux September 2020
By Jim Dodds The lost conceits we all maintain grow weary as the seasons turn all the strategies we use collapse, and mirrors do our pleading spurn. These adamantine phantoms fade, all pretense, smoke and mirrors just like dramas set on Shakespeare's stage, the ghosts of anger, fear and lust. Do fame and love and … Continue reading Adamantine Redux September 2020
Don’t Judge a Word By How It Sounds and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Don’t Judge a Word by How it Sounds “Clandestine” sounds nice Yet secrets obscure the truth It IS a big deal! Behind Scenic Fantasy Behind the glamour Of what many consider Beautiful is Fact Bedtime Lying in bed Implies laziness But sleep is essential To begin again And after the day … Continue reading Don’t Judge a Word By How It Sounds and Other Poems
I Trust Your Highness Will Excuse My Being Opal Creek and Other Poems
By Jake Sheff I Trust Your Highness Will Excuse my Being Opal Creek “Do a similarity of paths in life and a similarity of situations give rise to a similarity in characters? As a general thing it doesn’t. For people with strong minds and spirits of their own it does not. They have their own … Continue reading I Trust Your Highness Will Excuse My Being Opal Creek and Other Poems
Heart
By I.G. It was in the heart of New York City where I lost my mind and, yet to find the contract I signed I have got the southern hospitality of a country land living closely with grace from dignity's hand Out in the distance I keep an eye on misery's demand for memories like … Continue reading Heart
In Your Eyes
By Blue Carrisole In your eyes I exploit the warm barriers of pessimism Its my comfort place, My safe space And now, its glow rains on my face As I dance on the blades of its malice In your eyes I’m anointed the cold colours of truth Because I shriek at the touch Of the … Continue reading In Your Eyes
Become Transhuman and Other Poems
By Strider Marcus Jones Become Transhuman mop my stain of thoughts from their existence, before they grow too old and follow me, into disrepair and rigid ways- but leave one drop of luminous ribosome to feed its reason if i choose to let mortality become transhuman, then i, so acting shaped to mime and mummer … Continue reading Become Transhuman and Other Poems
Backyard Murder and Other Poems
By Eve Rifkah Backyard Murder though he knows he wants to fly see the world from the sky the pinpricks of life below no, it’s the voices, the way they call to each other the leader going ahead watching for those that follow making sure the rest keep up and the kids the yearlings the … Continue reading Backyard Murder and Other Poems
Honest Truth and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Honest Truth Somewhere some place Creation and destruction conflict Truth and lies Everywhere and nowhere Residents and visitors Weaving in and out Of time itself Like flowing water Within the river Of true stories Eligible Eligible eligibility Noble nobility Age of chivalry Permissible Acceptable Worthy of acclaim Holding merit Without being … Continue reading Honest Truth and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 