Whale Dad yellow coffee-teeth, pepper beard: hasn't shaved in a week. this man lives in a twin bed with only fleeting dreams to dread. he needs white noise to sleep: whale songs. the elevator, old and needing repair, makes the same sounds. hearing them on his way, he falls to sleeping and riding all day. … Continue reading Poems by Feston Altus
You Belong to Me
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein I have just written your name in my luminous moon like heart With the colour of vermilion red. That you belong to me. Let the world know that you are mine. I see you while my eyes closed in the darkness. As if you come from heavenly world, A … Continue reading You Belong to Me
Three Haiku
By James Bates Butterfly Delight Purple Coneflower Monarch butterfly alights Double delightful. Sunlight Dancing Morning dew sparkles Tiny droplets glistening Sunlight dances wildly. Thirst Springtime misting rain Tender garden shoots reaching Thirstily drinking. Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories have appeared online in CafeLit, The … Continue reading Three Haiku
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Timeless Rhymes and Rhythms Rhyme Rhymes with time A tale as old as time An allusion to Beauty and the Beast Reason Using the mind Logic, discipline, and sense Elinor Dashwood, the epitome of sense from Sense and Sensibility Rhyme and reason are interconnected The two princesses in The Phantom Tollbooth A children’s story about … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Four Poems About Baseball
By Michael Ceraolo Ty Cobb I should have done more checking on Stump before I accepted him as my ghostwriter I understand the hatchet job he did on me decades later in a biography was even worse than the job he did on me in my so-called autobiography The basepaths and batter's box … Continue reading Four Poems About Baseball
Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Reel Journeys Few weekend miles I pedal bike through juggernauts, a colporteur, of imaginations, peddler, to change her library books, as scout to scour travel shelves for tomes, to take round globe poor-sight shut-in. I, from saddle, expedition lead, survey routes, change climate, clime, prepare her passage, appoint path, sail wave, hack jungle … Continue reading Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth
Poems by John Sweet
some thoughts on the man she sees when she closes her eyes gives in to the incomplete shapes of the people from his past answers letters and emails, says i love you, says i loved you, watches snow blow past the windshield this is the world without color these moments are … Continue reading Poems by John Sweet
The Spirit
By Ian Copestick Sweet suburbia on a summer evening, families sitting in front of their houses, getting ready for the 8'O'Clock applause to thank the N.H.S. The British people standing as one, now that there's a common foe. Perhaps this is it, that fabled blitz and Dunkirk spirit, that helped us fight alone against … Continue reading The Spirit
Poems by Marc Carver
GIVE ME A REASON I have the same feeling I had before the covid people would walk away from me or look at me strangely or worry when I got too close to them only now they make it more obvious and now they have a real reason Not me I listen to the neighbours … Continue reading Poems by Marc Carver
Poems by John Grey
I’LL WRITE MINE, YOU WRITE YOURS I was barely born when I was suddenly the man of the house. My father died. I wept of course but only because I was hungry. I should have grown up fast but I didn’t. My mother and my three older sisters saw to that. Without … Continue reading Poems by John Grey
Academy of the Heart And Mind 