By John Grey The Fate Of The Poem I let it go and the wind took it, or was that the mail. It had a thousand mile trek ahead of it through six states and who knows how much rain soaked it, how many dogs chewed it, which spotty teenage girl mistook it for a … Continue reading The Fate of the Poem and Other Poems
Sedimentary Rock and Other Poems
By Eva Schiffer Sedimentary Rock Ground up experiences, suspended as long as the water is moving, disturbing its longing to rest, to settle, grain into grain, carrying but an echo of the sense the old rock used to make, before it gave in to the water. Layer upon layer of matter and time. Sedimentary Rock. … Continue reading Sedimentary Rock and Other Poems
Things Fall Apart
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein Things fall apart When you don't know the people Once you used to know. Things fall apart When you don't know the people Stabbing you behind your back Things fall apart When you don't know What's happening behind the scenes Against you Things fall apart When you can clearly notice … Continue reading Things Fall Apart
Whose Time Is It, Anyway? and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse Whose Time Is It, Anyway? I stared at its face and I dared it to grace me an hour of time, either way; one before or one after, for sadness or laughter (as if time is under our sway). A move into the future means now would be past and an hour … Continue reading Whose Time Is It, Anyway? and Other Poems
Partially Still Here and Other Poems
By Akintoye Akinsola Partially Still Here It was on a quiet night And my jammed conscious state poured into a frozen canal Yes, we were told not to believe castles could be built in the sun But I wanted that to be untrue The speed boat flipped over, landing badly and my being was punctured … Continue reading Partially Still Here and Other Poems
A Testimony to a Life and Other Poems
By Marchell Dyon A Testimony to a Life Now you can recognize your treasures from heaven Soaring with tattered wings; a guardian you have been. On this day, together let us sing. Let us speak of you with velvet voices. Harmoniously, praise your life of few choices. So many ways to be a woman form … Continue reading A Testimony to a Life and Other Poems
The Rollcall: A Dynastic Saga in Five Parts
By Amrita Valan I. The Beginning / Choddopurush Recalling names of forefathers Time travelling fourteen generations A rollcall of honors Bestowed by birth. For each prior generation Genetic heritage halved, Then quartered. Spliced again, till Beyond the fourteenth, The inheritance dwindles Below decimal percentage. This proves our common pool Of humanity shares One common genome. … Continue reading The Rollcall: A Dynastic Saga in Five Parts
I Miss Hummingbirds in Winter and Other Poems
By Andrew Lafleche I Miss Hummingbirds in Winter I am in bed this evening when a sudden downpour violent enough to jar me from that place— between the hours waiting for tomorrow and the darkness which will deliver me there; the space where shapes escape their borders and the voices behind my brow escape my … Continue reading I Miss Hummingbirds in Winter and Other Poems
Amongst the Waves and Other Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Amongst the Waves I saw her in the Maundy aisle of steady stream, robed city life, my viewpoint from cathedral stall. So short beneath the vaulted heights, but stature tall as gazed about, an eye caught from amongst the crowd, as sight, finite, felt infinity. I have the invitation card, calligraphy in … Continue reading Amongst the Waves and Other Poems
Morning Bliss and Lament of Kharkiv
By Mardiosa Yañez Morning Bliss I partially stirred, reluctant to open my languid eyes as sunshine flooded generously, it bathe my face I surmise it’s another day for the mortals, and gods of Olympus to celebrate new beginnings, I better guess. Slowly I breathe and inhale the cool summer air passing through my nostrils, energizing … Continue reading Morning Bliss and Lament of Kharkiv
Academy of the Heart And Mind 