By James Moran What is happening right now? My entire world is shaking My pen is the seismograph My words are the jagged lines that are the cracks in the egg- shaped world that is birthing forth these images as I write James Moran is a professional astrologer who regularly publishes articles, fiction, and poetry. … Continue reading My Entire World Is Shaking
If We Children Plant the Garden and Fall To Your Knees and Pray: An Ecological Prayer for the World
By Denize Lauture, Coeur de poeme If We Children Plant the Garden Green are the leaves Red are the flowers Green and red is our little garden White is the pollen Rosy are the fruits White and rosy is our little garden If we children plant the garden Blue are the stems Gray are the branches … Continue reading If We Children Plant the Garden and Fall To Your Knees and Pray: An Ecological Prayer for the World
Love’s Light
By Brenda Mox Her bitterness seemed to wither like flowers in a crystal vase, on the hinges of his words, full of fairy delights bursting forth with pops of color, singing like a Sunday smile. Caught in the magic of moments in the fire bathed parlor casting warm glows on the sides of their face, … Continue reading Love’s Light
Safe Passage at the Symphony
By Alan Swope While listening to “Night on Bald Mountain” performed by the San Francisco Symphony The hall a Roman galley pulled by rowing bows, guided by the conductor’s baton. Its hull a haven from a world of losses. Billows of sound surge toward, around the silver-haired listeners as they plunge through timeless waters. So … Continue reading Safe Passage at the Symphony
Bathed Sands: A Villanelle
By Joseph DuPre “I have a pain upon my forehead here.” Even now, after years have passed away, I feel something shatter my mended peace, when I hear your bittersweet name. That moment, although short and petty, turns me into a bull trapped in Spain; the same even now, after years have passed away. As … Continue reading Bathed Sands: A Villanelle
Songs for Dreams of Peace and Other Poems
By Beedo Song for Dreams of Peace To serene wives of active care, Who know not what to dream: Lend me tears of unspent fair, For lonesome droughts my beam. Unkindly fate once did pretend To give to me a love and friend; To this, we fill the night with mourning song! 'Cross seas he … Continue reading Songs for Dreams of Peace and Other Poems
needles in hard-boiled eggs
By Kaothar Kadir she’s slim, small but fierce. and she’s seen her nine chicks out of the pouring mid-October rain, the one that tears the roofs off of buildings like i tear off the top of a loaf of warm bread. she’s seen them out the rare hawk that roams and steals chicks away in … Continue reading needles in hard-boiled eggs
Riptide and Other Poems
By Carolyn Chilton Casas Riptide Recall being gripped by the riptide, the sudden panic when it seemed Neptune’s net was mightier than your mortal self, the sharp awareness that measured strokes forward would get you nowhere. In another place, in another time, dragged into a pummeling with Poseidon, you rack your mind for what you’ve … Continue reading Riptide and Other Poems
Grandmother’s Visit
By Michael Theroux It was late, already dark, so I was quite surprised to see my grandmother so primly dressed. Slim and pretty in her two-tone yellow frock, hair all permed, her eyes sparkled as she told me she wanted to get a good start, as she had a long way to go. Nana rose … Continue reading Grandmother’s Visit
Love Letter to London
By Solape Adetutu Adeyemi My Dearest London, As I sit here and contemplate the depths of my affection for you, it becomes clear that my heart has been utterly captured by your mesmerizing air and aesthetics. London, you are like no other, and in your embrace, I have found a love that knows no bounds. … Continue reading Love Letter to London
Academy of the Heart And Mind 