By Sanjeev Sethi Heart learned early about issues of entanglement. Player of my pitfall indited on the quicksand between us. When awkwardness of first love entered, inly I knew cruelty of contours but I swam with the blues. Second time I was champing at the bit. It happened quicker than I could control it. In its … Continue reading “Impressions”
THE INTELLIGENCE OF A FOOL
By David Chukwudi Njoku Trailing a part of immoral life In the midst of morality- Always justifying her actions with impunity. Confessing negative to each seed sown unto the Lord, Little wonder the gates of marriage is still indecisive. Her sterling qualities in leadership is now failure, Always in pain when rebuked. She now rubs mind … Continue reading THE INTELLIGENCE OF A FOOL
Haiku 279-289
By Thomas Page 279 A Pavlov’s bell rings In the ears of the students Who belt out old songs. 280 People speak fondly Of ghosts who do not shine new Lights of their being 281 Fear, like an unattended Tea kettle, boils With frightening power 282 Change is a flavor Of … Continue reading Haiku 279-289
“LOVE’S FREEDOM”
By David Chukwudi Njoku Love lives in the heart of faith, I found me a Jewel that sings like an angel, Her voice melts away my pain, She plays the guitar with passion That leaves me in the Love's ocean. My loneliness is no more, Her voice of fellowship is path to freedom, Such freedom houses … Continue reading “LOVE’S FREEDOM”
“PRAY FOR MY BELOVED COUNTRY”
By David Chukwudi Njoku She needs your attention Not your incessant castigation, Neither your deception Nor complex aggravation. She is in the midst of water Yet cry for water. She is a succour to many Yet her citizenry begs. Her leaders full of treachery, Live in affluence While her electorates starve of hunger. Pray for … Continue reading “PRAY FOR MY BELOVED COUNTRY”
“FIGHT IT”
By David Chukwudi Njoku Fight it, Stop it, Let it out, Don't give in to its thoughts, is a killer of destiny, don't allow hold water, no matter its package, it can give you eternal joy only but a short time relief. Stop it, how dare you! TRAMADOL, is a death trap filled with ephemerals, no … Continue reading “FIGHT IT”
Poems by Ryan Quinn Flannagan
Karl Marx Alienated Me from my Washing Machine Karl Marx alienated me from my washing machine and now I don’t have any clean laundry. And if I leave the house naked again I’ll be a repeat offender. And you know what most everyone thinks of double-dippers. Crossing the Rubicon with a Case of … Continue reading Poems by Ryan Quinn Flannagan
“The Way of the Dinosaurs”
By Thomas Page “Hall of the Dinosaurs” sits ‘bove the great Weight of the history museum down there, Where all that was a la mode now preserved Reserved as a lesson for us on what Clear-cut reasons are now daguerreotypes, Stereotypes of yestreens of the mind. Kind blurbs familiarize us as guests; Requests for a … Continue reading “The Way of the Dinosaurs”
Haiku 257-267
By Thomas Page 257 Minutes morph into Hours as the students try To babble different sounds 258 Students, no matter Where they go to school, will talk ‘Bout anything but 259 Adulthood, like beams Made from cave-dripped water, Fuses without notice 260 A parking lot made Barren by the revolving Moonlight—glowing eyes … Continue reading Haiku 257-267
“Kitchen, Sinister”
By Laura Potts Ten springs gone in my morning of life, I wore light in the summer of my voice, in the candles once made of my eyes. That night dusk swung out and away into noise wild and white above town, and down in my childhood garden lost the pond breathed out light … Continue reading “Kitchen, Sinister”
Academy of the Heart And Mind 