Submission Anxiety I release my words And most of my heart Into an abyss Of scrutiny And unknown evaluation. And attempt To be More zen And less maternal As I let them go. Reflections Close to Closing Time It's three minutes past The last time I checked I'm so informed As … Continue reading Poems by Anne Mikusinski
Poems by Ahmad Al-khatat
Death Philosophy Someone who loves chilling dancing drinking smoking asks me if I write with an ink? I answer to her with yes, it’s from my pain my ache my lonely my grief with the colour of death philosophy Will Be Quite I’m seeking a land, and not a … Continue reading Poems by Ahmad Al-khatat
Poems by Ken Allan Dronsfield
By Ken Allan Dronsfield A Seasonal Minuet Summertime, however hard it tries, will always be warm and inviting. A walk along the beach and dunes as summer sings like cool lemonade. Now unreasonable is just the thing, gets me to wonder if summer is crazy. Autumn arrives and leaves are falling, I cannot help but … Continue reading Poems by Ken Allan Dronsfield
Poems by Wayne Russell
Alchemy of the Heavens Do not ask me about complexities of the heavens in their grand state of mystery. I could never tell you what you need to know. Just as her inexplicable eyes radiating the unfathomable warmth of love. Autumn arriving in its own good time, like she arrives, fashionably late in my dreams. Knocking at … Continue reading Poems by Wayne Russell
A Letter To A Stranger
by John Patrick Robbsin Dear Stranger We met so many years ago now I see you through such different eye's. Aged and broken like most older men . You poison your life and everyone around you either died or no longer can recall you're name . I believe I saw you thrown … Continue reading A Letter To A Stranger
Poems by Emily Strauss
Walking in his Footsteps My ghost you needn't look for; it is probably Here, but a dark one, deep in the granite-- “Tor House”, Robinson Jeffers the low clouds blow fast over the point where he stood, the path outside the window his hand-built tower of sea boulders, his stone walls the grave of … Continue reading Poems by Emily Strauss
Poems Rizwan Saleem
The island of shattered dreams The ebbs and flows Cold winter winds blow Across the oceanic world No land to see, nor harbors to call The loud silence of doomed souls Black gulls take to air Round and round they fly in evil circumambulations No sound through truculent clouds Of promised rain and … Continue reading Poems Rizwan Saleem
Poems by Marc Carver
By Marc Carver DESTROY Give me just one one moment of pure joy wonder pure love just a needle's head a reversal of time let it sink into my bones that pure love even if it destroys me I walked to the big aviary in the park you could hear the noise of all those … Continue reading Poems by Marc Carver
The Jump
By Ryan Quinn Flanagan jump in a river jump because Van Halen said so jump to conclusions because of a faulty leg from the war that makes the VA hospital look like the Sears Tower on crack the way you limp through the front door and your wife tries not to look at … Continue reading The Jump
There is So Much Pain
By James Diaz i think of you as one precious book removed from a shelf and misplaced for years you are the thing that cannot be found I root around in all of my dark corners for you I am a bringer of what if's to understand suffering, one must - there's no way around … Continue reading There is So Much Pain
Academy of the Heart And Mind 