By Julie Holland Bushfire came through Evil as devil may be No thing, nor thought, spared Just a trail of black Shapes rising to ether To sapphire sky, to smoke and sour Young and tender wind, a calling to Green, that pulls life from ash Look at that Dad, said the child A rescue helicopter … Continue reading After Bushfire
To My Hero and Other Poems
By Roselainie Panginuma Saidamin To My Hero To the woman who is worthy of my respect, You are the color of the garden of my paradise. A mother of five with a soft-enduring heart, Your love is wary and so is your sacrifice. To the woman who gives comfort and solace, You are the luminous … Continue reading To My Hero and Other Poems
Animated and Other Poems
By Susan Shea Animated Every week, at the library you filled shopping bags high with children's picture story books for me to drive home for you so we could go innocently grow up together in full color, away from the cemented melancholy I crawled through away from the parent-centered place where I wasn't seen or … Continue reading Animated and Other Poems
Cold Dark Ironies
By Brenda Mox He was born with something at odds inside a knot of vague darkness where he hides, cleared eyed as a wolf on the hunt. Brow dark and disturbed, a thunder headed runt with a raw reedy voice of outraged revenge which he spews forth from greyhound limbs. Sharp as a chip of … Continue reading Cold Dark Ironies
Platonic Love and Other Poems
By Jess Whetsel Platonic Love Previously published in The Amazine There is a room in my heart that only you can enter. You forged a key from curiosity and devotion, tied it ‘round your neck with fishing line, but still you knock first, let me open the door. I welcome you in with a checkerboard … Continue reading Platonic Love and Other Poems
Land upon a star and Other Poems
By Dennis Williams Land upon a star You work, I sweat, and they collect the payment on the next fourth night. Many gather, few are compensated and the needs of the majority are never met. While the chief unscrupulous frolic in splendor with his chosen few. So it set the space cannot accommodate the cry … Continue reading Land upon a star and Other Poems
For My Mother and Other Poems
By Angela Kosta Translated by the Indian poet Dilip Mewada For My Mother... I have written several lines and endless verses with my tears, pain of love for her. Where are you, my mother? I wish to kiss your eyes with goodness once again! I want to caress your warm hands just the way you … Continue reading For My Mother and Other Poems
Blood
By John Sierpinski The beginning of an end Before I gave blood, the phlebotomist said, Your last name is misspelled on your driver’s license. Then at the dreaded DMV, passport in hand, a picture that doesn’t even look like now, anymore. The clerk telling me to wait while she checks with her supervisor. I watch … Continue reading Blood
A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
By Claudia Wysocky A Cog in the Machine I am just a robot, A dull, lifeless piece of machinery, Programmed to follow simple algorithm. Life is not meant for me, I am merely a cog in the machine, Running on repeat and shutting down, —When the program ends— But I am more than their calibrations, … Continue reading A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
Glass
By Olumide Holloway (King Olulu) It’s Glass Can't see it But can feel it The limits The restrictions And the rejections. Can't stop now Too late to turn back Too far gone And don't want a life of regrets. It’s Glass It talks and writes Sometimes it says NO Most times it is...silent But the … Continue reading Glass
Academy of the Heart And Mind 