By Stephen Kingsnorth Curl The rising shave of chiselled wood, the great wave off Kanagawa, the calligraphic curve of grace, or ringlet hair around the ear. The sabre swipe of crescent moon, the dancing turn of treble clef, the cosmic turn gyrating spheres, or circling cornet ice-cream filled. Plantagenet pods' twisting spring, turning water past … Continue reading Curl and Other Poems
Just One Spark and Other Poems
By Andrew Scott Just One Spark For change, sometimes all it takes is just one spark to see the light of what is right and what is wrong and the right path for change. The fires start out of frustration in the chaos of the land from watching flames of anger burn from broken ditches. … Continue reading Just One Spark and Other Poems
The Only Angel
By Vahid Husen Sayyad You are the only angel who come to my dream. With long brown curly hair and pink lips like rose. With the fragrance of purity you flow like a mild stream. I can feel myself alive again when you are close. With your smile, you give life to thousands of butterflies. … Continue reading The Only Angel
How We Leave and Other Poems
By Donna L. Emerson How We Leave Aunt Betty, my mother’s older sister, of the flaming red hair, fancy makeup, resembled a magazine model. Her clothing dramatic, stylish, often green or modern waves of pink and orange. In my school, girls with red hair never wore orange and said this was a rule that lasts … Continue reading How We Leave and Other Poems
Neath Shaded Trees
By Mike Turner Sun’s golden, setting rays Filter through verdant leaves Whilst a gentled, whispered wind Comforts with cooling breeze Arms’ strong, warm embrace On our hearts bestow their ease As a sweet and simple kiss Our passions lightly tease As twilight slowly fades And day’s memories we reprise Let us cross o’er yonder river … Continue reading Neath Shaded Trees
The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor and Other Poems
By John Maurer The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor As soon as I let myself in my head I tear it to pieces Gut my childhood memories Toss the liver of my birthdays Into a pan with coconut oil Harrow my hauntings with a hatchet Find my heart to be a puzzle short a piece Throw this into … Continue reading The Jack-O-Lantern Metaphor and Other Poems
Burnt Lace and Other Poems
By Christian Garduno Burnt Lace It wasn’t music to dance to, it was music to fall in love with someone in your room to, to figure out what you were going to wear for them tomorrow, music to spin to, to lie down to, to close your eyes to, to escape inside, it was music … Continue reading Burnt Lace and Other Poems
Limerosity and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse Limerosity: The Love of Light Verse There are those who think rhyming’s a curse and for poetry, nothing is worse. They’d bar patterns of rhythm which stow away with’m in lines which are simply adverse to the senses of those who converse in the hoity patois they rehearse, weaving nebulous phrases into … Continue reading Limerosity and Other Poems
Meteora and Other Poems
By Gail Nielsen Meteora Above a monastery between cross and sky she rose and took her place, sweeping arms the length of a stratus cloud lining and she was gone from me But not at Meteora Only the fringe of Zeus’s blue heaven below, olive groves softening cool moss under his feet of hot stone … Continue reading Meteora and Other Poems
Voodoo Doll and Other Poems
By Haley Hall Voodoo Doll A stringy smile and button eyes as cold as your own Every time I hurt, you can too. I stitched the mouth closed Silencing you like you did me The red pins give me the power I’ve been longing for The power you hold The power I deserve I place … Continue reading Voodoo Doll and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 