Weavers of the Clay Fatherly fathers, potters of the clay, ambassadors of morality and knowledge, inheritors of obligations, relinquishing their self fulfilling desires, giving up their selfish dreams, molding their sons and daughters on the potter's wheel with sagacious hands and careful fingers, defining and representing moral integrity and providence, planting seeds in their minds, … Continue reading Poems by Robert L. Martin
Poems by Douglas Young
The Airport Intense faces all around: Black, white, yellow and brown; High expectations mixed with the mundane – No matter the motive, get to that plane. We fervently cling to the notion That the solution is in motion; So everyone’s in a hurry -- So focused, with no time to worry. If we just get … Continue reading Poems by Douglas Young
I Will
By Tammy Carter On this day I will marry you, I will take your hand today, and forever. I will be there for you from this day forward. I will treasure every moment. Your love your trust and your forgiveness. Not only will I stand beside you, but I will walk with you. When … Continue reading I Will
Peace Within
By Thembi Vuma As open as I am and as peaceful as my thoughts are now, I have been through the wilderness, At times felt like, I was climbing mountain Kilimanjaro and I couldn’t see the other side, My emotions roaring all day long couldn’t think straight, For my heart was not at rest, … Continue reading Peace Within
When I Conquer
By Ananya Bhardwaj When I conquer you, Let the mountains shake, Let the earth quake. Make them fear me, A void of strength, To overcome lengths, To build an empire, Stronger than the last, You need resistance, You need power, You need revenge. to avenge the wounds, dig deep and conquer. Rebel for your … Continue reading When I Conquer
Wet With Tears
By Thomas R. Bates I cannot get out of my head, Nor do I necessarily want to, The image of the one time you Wept, eyes red, wet with tears, During those last weeks of your Painfully slow decline into death. You seemed to face it and accept it So stoically without any regrets, But … Continue reading Wet With Tears
Poems by Antonina Rousskikh
Room One hundred people in a room Speak in a deafening drone But all I can hear are my thoughts, Vehemently fighting, crying, screaming Seventy-five people in a room Dance to the hypnotic rhythm But my fleeting feet take me away From the harrowing ringing in my ears Fifty people in a room … Continue reading Poems by Antonina Rousskikh
Poems by RC deWinter
Théros Summer now – the invisible shift into another quadrant of cosmic order, eclipses blueskied the harshness of an abducted spring hung on the gallows of the greedy Boreas, never satisfied, reluctant to surrender his hold on the natural workings of the universe to the soft hands of a woman – the gentle Kore, whose … Continue reading Poems by RC deWinter
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Irrevocable Each and every day Be careful of what others say For some would hurt and criticize Yet the noble realize That words could create pain Yet language must not restrain People for practicing nobility For the righteous use logical sense Instead of illogical sensibility Empathy Sympathy is nice Yet empathy takes more To … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
The Garden
By Anne Brison Come enter through the garden gate, And see the beauty that does await. Stoop beneath the climbing rose vine, And sweep past clusters of columbine. Watch the golden swaying Aspen, In the shadowy garden glen. And watch as the dragonfly swoops and darts, Among the blood red bleeding hearts. Then stop … Continue reading The Garden
Academy of the Heart And Mind 