By Sangita Kansal By lighting the path of another You light your own Seeds of love and compassion Not hatred be sown Give spiritual light to the blind And voice to the downtrodden Leave no poor man behind Radiating warmth like the sun Sangita Kansal is a poet from England.
To those who see me
By Kaitlyn Byer Layers of my ghostly flesh Cremated by the tones of My culture I am no longer a who But a what What are you? A gringo showing up to our parranda With her colonizer blood Mami bears the weight Of marrying a white man Of failing to teach me her mother tongue … Continue reading To those who see me
Measures of Central Tendency and Staffs at Counter
By Raaji Measures of Central Tendency Say others are minded of mean As if we are generous have been Willing to project self on mode Thus selfish always on aboard Need our judgment as median To be either side guardian Measures of tendency in maths for us Measures of tendency matching for us Staffs at … Continue reading Measures of Central Tendency and Staffs at Counter
Why They Answered Their Call and Other Poems
By Douglas J. Lanzo Why They Answered Their Call They had no connection other than a heart and a soul, but they answered the call to reduce the grave human toll. Flying thousands of miles across oceans, mountains and plains, they left families behind to enter beleaguered Ukraine. Their hands heal suffering in a hospital … Continue reading Why They Answered Their Call and Other Poems
Tear Up Your To-Do Lists and Just Sit and Other Poems
By Audrey Howitt Tear Up Your To-Do Lists and Just Sit build tiny nests pull sunlight toward you nurture those mercies you tie close to you under business suits nestled deep in tender folds here is the secret-- if you take one stick fold it close to another you can bend yourself into them find … Continue reading Tear Up Your To-Do Lists and Just Sit and Other Poems
Storyteller and Raisins
By Perry L. Powell Storyteller How I would close my eyes and see the marvels that were your words— the ever-tall oaks dark and green, piercing the sky, the sunlight thrown like gold coins across the meadow, the curve of a hand raised to touch Her hair. How I would hear the giggling water of … Continue reading Storyteller and Raisins
Winter Drowsiness and Other Poems
By Robin Locke Winter Drowsiness Inside heavy limbs tucked beneath blankets Outside heavy limbs tucked beneath snow Cup of tea in hand I wait in warmth with the sleeping earth to wake up again and bloom Crying Out to Blue Bird spreads its wings, Flies high in the sky, lifts its head, Cries out to … Continue reading Winter Drowsiness and Other Poems
Ocean Poems
By James G. Piatt The Seashore “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves we find in the sea." e.e. cummings The soft sandy shore, spreading like a dusty yellow carpet reflected the sun’s warm rays onto my bare shoulders as the morning melted into the balminess of noon, causing … Continue reading Ocean Poems
Premature Spring and Other Poems
By Michael Ansara Premature Spring Inexcusable, given the lush conditions of my life, joy has too often been a stranger. Now the sun seems stronger. Mud sucks at my shoes. My body still moving is a blessing. This year, winter was two days when the earth Cracked from the cold. That our bodies still move … Continue reading Premature Spring and Other Poems
The Sun and Other Poems
By Anthony Ward The Sun (Life) The provider of life, Powering our planet. An engine of energy. Lighting our world, With its radiant countenance Expressed in the ocean of air. It’s intriguing sentience, Blinded beneath its intensity. Mercury (Communication) The atmosphere, desolate- Yet light-hearted Volatile in its eloquence, Its igneous desert both searing and cold, … Continue reading The Sun and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 