By Stephen Kingsnorth Hedge Funds Where pastures, crops were once enclosed - remember acts from history days - we hedged our bets with layered edge, a folded hem, first tacked, then sown with berried seeds, gin-runny sloes. That edging served as travel routes, safe paths to navigate through space, for isolate, connected ways, where open … Continue reading Hedge Funds and Fine Line
Bountiful Life and Other Poems
By Bhupesh Chandra Karmakar Bountiful Life There is happiness and sorrow in life, but life takes both rain and sunshine, and it creates a rainbow throughout. The people today lead a very hectic life, and work long hours and there is hardly any time left to spend with their family. Life is not just party … Continue reading Bountiful Life and Other Poems
The Forgotten Parcel and Other Poems
By Madhu Gangopadhyay The Forgotten Parcel He left with all things packed The last of his handkerchief His lighter and the half Full cigarette pack! She'd rummaged through the wardrobe Ensured nothing was left! Her nutty heart thought Nothing that belonged to him she'd kept! It was all over and done She could happily move … Continue reading The Forgotten Parcel and Other Poems
Reinvention and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Reinvention Create through creation Mature through maturation Aging gracefully Surrender to reality Try to try By and by Do more than try Accomplish through accomplishments To experience pure wonderment What Truly Matters Being dependable Reliable Trust-worthy In spite of subjectivity Honor and loyal Brave and true All of that does matter … Continue reading Reinvention and Other Poems
Are We Not All Spirits?
By Mike Turner Are we not all spirits? The essence of our lives separate From this corporeal existence? Do we not each feel the tug Of a connection to a more ethereal reality? Something beyond, something infinite More lasting, more meaningful than this transitory “now”? When we close our eyes and still our hearts Do … Continue reading Are We Not All Spirits?
Wounds Transcend
By Moola Veereswara Rao I know your wounds... but quit ye not the noble route. Remember how a silent reed became a flute. Don't kick them out, because they're all just lifeless stones. But how became a rock into a sculpture...moot. Ye don't concede to whetted darts of mean critique. Ye watch this road that … Continue reading Wounds Transcend
Don’t Try Anything
By Mahathi The days of Kentish fire are over. Your whole body has hackles. No way you can hightail. Our newest friend Covid is too brobdingnag and in sanguinolency. She is roughhousing the whole human race. Before this tiniest new giant on earth you are just a Lilliput. Your intransigence and your mummery wont work. … Continue reading Don’t Try Anything
An Elegy to Barkeley
By John Goodie I had to witness death today No, not just any death, but that of my best friend, a selfless, comforting soul The soul of an Angel she had You could tell it by her tail and the licking of toes Or jumps to give a kiss Barkeley, a lab/pit mix I met … Continue reading An Elegy to Barkeley
Formatting and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Formatting Organization Transformation Formatting to fit Upon a page And also in real life Because of social Expectations Despite such standards, Challenging the status quo Helps people know How people truly are So format oneself By being oneself Unapologetically Residential Residing at home Sometimes by the sea Any land fairer than … Continue reading Formatting and Other Poems
Let Go
By C.T. Zaremba He set the pace. She walked the path beside him. It was grass covered, sometimes rocky. In order to get by the obstacles they held hands. Those hands held their world. She set the boundaries. He pushed the limits. It was the push and pull of a marriage. The highs and lows, … Continue reading Let Go
Academy of the Heart And Mind 