By Ahmad Al-Khatat Take me to the limits of the sun Away from the miserable nest -of skeletons, simply because they remind me of my thirty-five years Take me back in your warm dream Where life’s bitterness appears more like a blooming rose in the direction of the cemetery, in which we can smile … Continue reading The Limits of the Sun
And Yet, We Love
By Mike Turner Loveis to takethe essence of oneself And offer it upNaked, defenseless, vulnerableto another With faiththat it will be vouchsafed tenderly And lingering knowledgethat all may be lost And yetWe love Mike Turner is a songwriter and poet living on the US Gulf Coast. He was named Male Gospel Entertainer of the Year … Continue reading And Yet, We Love
Three Poems by Thomas Page
Lascaux Hold my hand against the wall And blow the pigment through the reed Here am I and there us all And everything that you need. There’s the cattle of the plain And there the bird of the sky. Avoid the horns that cause pain And the spots that lie. We’ve been here … Continue reading Three Poems by Thomas Page
Two Poems by Marc Carver
LOVE I want to write poems in the sky so everyone can see them they could only be about love there is nothing else worth saying. surreal I see you there eyes shining pretty round face. You are looking at me but your looking says nothing. I see you are under a bed or couch. … Continue reading Two Poems by Marc Carver
A Happy Death
By Bradford Middleton My life goes by in black and white, The black words I type onto white paper And the sepia tinted black and white Of the old movie days. The films come And go, a new one every few days whilst The words, right now, continue to flow And it all … Continue reading A Happy Death
A Collection of Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Hope The notion of “never losing hope” Might sound cliché But that could really help people Not go astray Time keeps on ticking And the future might be uncertain Yet people who Hold on the their dreams And use this present moment The greatest present of all To pave a better future Impact the world … Continue reading A Collection of Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Haiku by Thomas Page
A litany of Purple wildflowers on The concrete island. Knights of yore wore masks To protect themselves from strikes From their foes unknown. The rain poured purple— The lighting thunder gray— The sky shaded black. The salamanders Under the rocks with mother— Micro-firmament. The puzzle disjointed— A million bits of soul— Each color indistinct. The … Continue reading Haiku by Thomas Page
Boundaries
By Marina McCuaig Round the gable to the byre hunting for eggs, peat stack and back. Busily doing important things, this was my usual tack. My daily play and toil performed behind these fortress walls. And all the while the smell and sound of the Atlantic calls. A constant I neither noticed or could ever … Continue reading Boundaries
Rather British Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Ilkley Crags Far from south western sibling tors these stubby crags emerge from peat, amongst scrag season's heather, gorse; but mother loved these Yorkshire moors so different from her Exmoor stags. Yarn Dunster lass, strode tussocks, tufts, the billowed gale, church choir let loose to chant baht ‘at with ducks … Continue reading Rather British Poems
Two Poems by Saharsh Satheesh
Twilight at Budapest Steel cowers over, calm water flowing, through the banks, of the Danube, carving chalky rocks, and golden haze, of the setting sun, stretching its rays, and the waters cool, with a dark blue tint, and fragments of ice, drift in search of sun. Rainbow Eucalyptus Brushes of mother nature, swift strokes of … Continue reading Two Poems by Saharsh Satheesh
Academy of the Heart And Mind 