By Matthew Comorre It smothers you as gravity suddenly thickens Its weight presses against your chest Your heart suddenly aches It stifles you as your lungs gasp for air Your head’s underwater The surface seems so far away It cripples you as muscles tense and spasm Your movements heavy, sluggish Water much like honey Strength … Continue reading Anxiety’s Grip
A Bowl of Ice Cream and Other Poems
By Danny P. Barbare A Bowl of Ice Cream Ice cream in a bowl makes everyone sweet as if to get along if only for a carton scoop for scoop whatever your flavor. Riding to the Mountains In the mountains I see the proud blue sky and the trees as the flowers greet you the … Continue reading A Bowl of Ice Cream and Other Poems
Forget the wind! Let’s Wage War
By Sircharlesthepoet An ant crawls under a crack I had forgotten below my window. The wind blows suspensefully so the curtains wake, bothered they sweep their skirts to get up reassemble their limbs and wrinkles to keep warmth. Sunlight intrudes into my faulty sight how blind could the blind be made? What’s an alert, emergency … Continue reading Forget the wind! Let’s Wage War
Listen…
By Mike Turner Listen… As stars gently brush the sky Spun-sugar clouds whispering your name While murmuring zephyrs Tell their secrets to the autumn leaves And cool rays of moonlight Kiss resting daffodils Sleeping in dew-moistened glade Do you hear the music? Lyrics, melody, mystery Of the turning of night? Singing of days past Tomorrows … Continue reading Listen…
My Grandmas Ride Their Blue And Gold Tandem Bike And Other Poems
By Leigh-Anne Burley My Grandmas Ride Their Blue and Gold Tandem Bike My grandmas ride their blue and gold tandem bike and take us grandkids for Saturday picnics in the park. Collecting figurines from Red Rose tea boxes and trading IGA green stamps for dishes is their interest.. These lovely ladies enjoy neighborhood lilac-scented tea … Continue reading My Grandmas Ride Their Blue And Gold Tandem Bike And Other Poems
Soul Train and Other Poems
By Madeira Miller Soul Train Previously published in Abstract Literary Magazine The ambulance was two cars ahead and my windows were down in the heat of rush hour traffic on a Monday evening. The children bickered in the backseat, exhausted from the school day. They were silenced by the piercing scream of the sirens and … Continue reading Soul Train and Other Poems
Vampires And Other Poems
By Sean Eaton Vampires Those night-hunters, vampires, unable to go out in the sun, arrange moonlit picnics for themselves on scenic hillsides during the warmer months, on the young and supple or ancient craggy hills of their grandmother Earth. They plant tall torches in the dry dirt in perimeter around antique Persian carpets, smaller candelabra … Continue reading Vampires And Other Poems
The Tambourine Man and Other Poems
By John Grey The Tambourine Man Stringy gray hair grew long enough to tickle his belt loops, but the top of his head was as bald as rock. Rough sideburns extinguished half his cheeks. He sang backup on the chorus, in a voice like a young rooster learning to crow. And if he tried to … Continue reading The Tambourine Man and Other Poems
My Dream of Flying And Other Poems
By Phil Flott My Dream of Flying Anymore I don’t tell many how I want to bypass the coffin, wake when birds shake trees, breathe the spring of fresh rains. I had almost settled for trees, their archaic crowns greening loess, justifying clay. A crick in my neck held me to that smallness, made me … Continue reading My Dream of Flying And Other Poems
The Emperor Penguin Dreaming of Flight And Other Poems
By Pedro Moranchel Jr. The Emperor Penguin Dreaming of Flight sliding off the thousand feet high iceberg into the Southern Ocean near a flying wandering albatross they were both just specks Far Future Fear realizing I chose money over me stuck saying words like "scope" wanting hope that for me it is not yet too … Continue reading The Emperor Penguin Dreaming of Flight And Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 