By John Patrick Robbins These are the last pages I will ever write for you. My lines are far to worn my thoughts spent in false hopes now buried by my ever clear and present vices. Tears no longer remain, and the storm washed clean ever present reminder that I can never truly drink … Continue reading “One Last Reprise”
“A Letter To A Stranger”
By John Patrick Robbins 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 out of some bar off … Continue reading “A Letter To A Stranger”
Haiku 235-245
By Thomas Page 235 Fleet of abandoned Ships Rest In Peace in water Of the Potomac 236 Dragonflies hover Over nameless golden plants Cultivated there 237 July afternoons— An easel of sunshine and Baked cloudy skies 238 What fresh berries found Like a greenman blushing at Unexpected guests 239 Fire in … Continue reading Haiku 235-245
Poems by Anne Mikusinski
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
Academy of the Heart And Mind 