By Ian Copestick As I stand at the top of the hill I gaze down onto a blanket of orange street lamps, mixing in with the deep, dark purple sky. It's a strange time, spring is knocking at the door, but winter is dragging it's heels. Holding on with storms Ciara and Dennis, battering us … Continue reading At the Top of the Hill
Faded Embers
By Jay M Oft of an exquisite dawn, Your thoughts come to me; As memories of a languorous nights sibilance of silk, Embers fanned along an amative lines curve. Of the wind that awaited instructions, To carry cries of amatory depths explored; Whispered bliss a cadence sheathed by moonlit silver. Oft of an exquisite … Continue reading Faded Embers
Feet Will Walk Forever
By Ian Copestick All afternoon, the snow it fell and the city came to a standstill. Just a light dusting, an inch or so, and no one knows how to drive. Me, I laugh at the fuming faces as I stroll on by. My shoe leather faster than their expensive engines. Which will soon … Continue reading Feet Will Walk Forever
The Untranslatable: Empêchement
By Thomas Page This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. Everyone expects the weekend to mean something more than the week Because we are not bound to the rock of the workplace That … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Empêchement
Five Poems by Pete Mladinic
Destitute in Eunice In Eunice no trees grow There are sand hills And as in Jal and Hobbs mistakes As in Jal and Hobbs families mourn Where we were five One says now we are four In Eunice wind shifts sand But the hills do not leave Mistakes are made people grieve … Continue reading Five Poems by Pete Mladinic
The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
By Paweł Markiewicz The enchanted moon is solely for you. You are doing the sempiternity herein on earth. You guardian angel conjure dreams of me. So marvelously-propitiously your heavenly mirror shines. The courtly love to the angellet are sorceries. In your vans reveries live. I like you, the angel, drunken with a magnificence of dew, … Continue reading The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)
Contest Announcement
Springtime Contest March 01- April 3, 2020 It's time for our next contest! Our editors are looking for a way to say goodbye to Old Man Winter and welcome the upcoming Spring season. We are looking for poems, short stories, and art pieces which celebrate Springtime. They can be from any genre. The requirements: Entries … Continue reading Contest Announcement
Poems by James Mulhern
The Crosswalk Today I saw a father and son stepping onto the crosswalk. I braked and watched them pass. Son on father’s shoulders, headed to the park with swings. I drove on, thinking of you and wondered why you never lifted me and held my legs or brought me to the swings. But … Continue reading Poems by James Mulhern
The Wild Hare and the Golden Eagle
By Nardine Sanderson The wild hare and the golden edge. On the hillside past the woven pathway lays the golden edge of daffodils with loyal faces in the light I rubbed my eyes in comparison they too looked towards the glare And wonderful was that view, I could not help but stop … Continue reading The Wild Hare and the Golden Eagle
Haiku by Thomas Page
The november rains Pour down into the foggy Plains b’low hidden sun. The faux-jade apple On the faux-mahogany Desk. Are these hands real? I cannot name the Stars more ancient than I am With lights eclipsed now. The trees grew orange-red, The others stayed green-yellow, The trunks look the same. The palm-reader’s map-- Like … Continue reading Haiku by Thomas Page
Academy of the Heart And Mind 