By Robin L. Harvey "If I Fall" and "Ari" were originally published in Harvey's PTSD Poems to Slay Demons If I Fall awake, engulfed in sunshine rays of you life moves like a musical as you tap-tap-tap dance through my mind’s eye the morning air hangs happy and hot with twinge-tinged embers from the night … Continue reading If I Fall and Ari
Remember My Pen
By Haleema Dalhat When I die I shall die alone... As selfish to you all as that may be. Though I have had my share of troubles. I would still like to keep some of my dignity. I shall not want you to see my pain Nor could I bear to see any of your … Continue reading Remember My Pen
Looking Back and Let Go
By Chris Toto Zaremba Looking Back I might look back too much. It's a safe place. I know what happened. I know the music. All my experiences, knowledge, memories and pictures are from back there. I can filter on the good times. I can see those who are no longer here. I see them at … Continue reading Looking Back and Let Go
Greetings, Life and Other Poems
By Malak Kalmoni Chehab Greetings, Life What have you seen? How have you been? Has time, in its transience, kept you keen? Have you asked it its reason for being? Have you asked destiny why it's fleeing? Have you asked faith why it’s redeeming? Life, I wish you could respond, My questions are many and … Continue reading Greetings, Life and Other Poems
What a Pity
By Parth Joshi almost every evening, while returning, i see a mountain standing above all those walking men, rooted severely deep into the earth and yet touching the heights to the extent that clouds and even winds change their course due to their might. astonishing, yet nigh none of them finds it so. what a … Continue reading What a Pity
Wait and Other Poems
By Zhihua Wang Wait Arrive early to check in, wait for the nurse to call your name, wait for the doctor to come into the room. I brought a book, but never bothered to open. Mind strains like an alarm is to ring, a sentence to be announced. Wait to take the test, wait for … Continue reading Wait and Other Poems
Summer Haiku
By Dianne Mortiz hydrangea bushes show off their big, blue blooms a praying mantis beach body surfing tumbling in fierce waves landing on packed sand scents wafting from the snack shack craving hot dogs seaside beach club oysters and tequila drunk on love walking by the bay a cast of fiddler crabs scuttle in beach … Continue reading Summer Haiku
Road Trip
By Frankie Laufer A modern-day cattle drive except with satellite radio. Twenty-five mile per hour speed limit only a memory in rear view mirror. Painted ponies keeping pace in a pasture like race cars on the final lap. A cloud with many faces watches over us. This is a good omen. Exit two fifteen, Woodpecker … Continue reading Road Trip
H-O-R-S and Other Poems
By Jesse Wolfe H-O-R-S Tuesdays—dad’s day—when mom worked late at the hospital, he collected us from school for lazy rounds of HORSE. Sun crept behind the garage, we slipped on sweaters, shots clanged off the rim. Games dragged on when leaders failed to clench their wins. One dangled me in no-man’s-land, H-O-R-S by myself. Dad, … Continue reading H-O-R-S and Other Poems
Turtle Synchrony and Other Poems
By Charles Weld Turtle Synchrony A big one strode across my sister’s yard June 3rd. And my brother-in-law wrote that another appeared the day after to dig up their grass and lay eggs for an hour, undeterred from this task by his presence. The Thoreaus also had a nest of turtle eggs, buried by Henry, … Continue reading Turtle Synchrony and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 