By Jay M. If my words were leaves, What a bonfire they would make, Raining down on a cold night, Items of the fall, to keep you warm, Alive in the shimmering moonlight; To wrap you in lustre, at beck and call, Every Dawn of the fall. If my words were the stars nigh, … Continue reading Yearning
Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Exeunt Your spiteful smile— flashing in the doorway— etched itself as if my memory were metal plate. Ambiguous carving— there is time to decipher it, but not endless time. Lightning flashes, illuminating you. Then darkness. Metal man, tin-thin, I am unassailable, but the imprint’s part of me: glancing behind your shoulder, hair half-veiling your … Continue reading Poems by Jesse Wolfe
Three Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
The Ultimate Stage Social hierarchy Filled with diversity Colorful iridescence Aesthetic decadence There might be evil in the world but there is still hope for the ones who dream No matter how hard life may seem Celebrate life and cheer for the dreamers Pursuing passions respectfully The Light Ascending Light in August American landscape … Continue reading Three Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Poems by John Grey
MORNING AT THE COTTAGE A gift from night chill, from the dry wind grace, from the incomparable red-rimmed morning sunlight in a slow spread everywhere... deep the earth becomes, endless mystic fervor; feel the freshened wind through oak's forked bough, fragrance of honey from each old hollow. Shadows spread far, strike the nostrils in a … Continue reading Poems by John Grey
Real Estate
By Alex Andy Phuong Room A Room of One’s Own Castles Mansions Apartments Houses Condos Condominiums Dorms Dormitories Duplex School Wuthering Heights Thornfield Pemberley Tara Manderley Darlington Hall Artificial Architecture Imaginary Physically Spiritually sublimely House of Lancaster House of York The War of the Roses Blending Unifying sanctuary The White House Earth Home … Continue reading Real Estate
New Life
By Alex Andy Phuong 2020 New Decade New Beginning Years after graduation But learning forevermore Expressing gratitude for acquiring knowledge Yet never forgetting what was taught in kindergarten Play nice Be nice Do not judge books by their covers (not to mention people) Because a cover really is not always the book Open eyes … Continue reading New Life
Ask Me Not Why I Love You
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein I love you more than Myself, And I shall remain to love you like this, If you ask me, why I love you, I shall tell you, there is no reason for falling in love. Love happens spontaneously, Without reasons and thoughts. In my life you are the one, To … Continue reading Ask Me Not Why I Love You
Haiku by Paweł Markiewicz
1. TENDER VANS a broad-leaved garlic I begin thinking about his - vans of soft dreams .............................. 2. PHILOSOPHY wood garlic in holt philosophizing for you - begin and finish? ………………………………………. 3.LONELINESS holt full of ramson broken vans are lonely - woe to nothingness! ………………………………………. 4.SHROUDED IN DREAMY SPRINGTIDE ramson in springtide nothingnesses such an … Continue reading Haiku by Paweł Markiewicz
At the Top of the Hill
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
Academy of the Heart And Mind 