By Amy Irani 7th November 2021 Seventh November 1965 The day we united for life For good or for bad To take all in our strife To love n to cherish with utmost love We were husband n wife Today is our fifty sixth year just seventy three days back left for yr heavenly abode … Continue reading 7th November 2021 and Other Poems
Turning Fifty-Seven and Other Poems
By Julia Vaughan Turning Fifty-Seven Acknowledging Judith Wright’s Turning Fifty As I drink my coffee in the early morning sun I taste my fifty-seven years. Pure joy, chaos, terror and fun Girl to woman, so many tears. At 7, walking home from Pembi Dam, all alone, Through a bog, stepping with intent, Choosing grassy clumps, … Continue reading Turning Fifty-Seven and Other Poems
Ordinary and Other Poems
By Virginia Riedman-Dangler Ordinary “You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.” Mitch Albom It seemed like an ordinary day, and yet an array of things brought me unexpected joy as if watching a child with a new toy. There was laundry to sort, and cloths to fold, dishes to clean while deciding where … Continue reading Ordinary and Other Poems
Two Poems in a Haze
By Ellie Stewart Vertigo The Earth turns too fast for the world to catch up The seasons shift leaving lovers, allies, neighbors, strangers, swiveling apart What were we? My head turns too fast for me to remember I spin, you stay. You’re there lingering and then I’m gone. Evanescence You were there, We were here. … Continue reading Two Poems in a Haze
Overrated and Other Poems
By Anthony Ward Overrated Summer is the time of year most find relaxing. But I find it tiring. Too much buzzing and busying around. Too many bodies sprawled across the ground. While the heat’s too hot to warm to. Pride is the peace of mind most of us hope for. Yet I find it induces … Continue reading Overrated and Other Poems
Industrial Fruit
By Michael Theroux In our food, in our bodies our clothes, our buildings in the Air, Water, Earth all come from the Fire We unmake our home and make the Machine and making, create this deadly residue Splinters so fine no needle will serve in competent hands to come to the rescue What have we … Continue reading Industrial Fruit
The Lucky Ones and Other Poems
By Manuel Matei The Lucky Ones How did they knew when to disappear and make the best use of their life? In true Edison style, disaster led directly to innovation: the obstacle became the path. The art of turning adversity into triumph. In order to do great things we have to endure tragedies, to love … Continue reading The Lucky Ones and Other Poems
What Else Can I Say? and Other Poems
By Esha Sury What Else Can I Say? This bone-tiredness to speak ended as pure reprieve. I dispose of my last pen and a surrendered dove, as remittance, gave its’ awareness to me in a dawn of non-talk. I wish plainly to cradle wordless breath, to unashamedly swallow the verse I could’ve written on a … Continue reading What Else Can I Say? and Other Poems
Yield and Other Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Yield You know, like dough, a verse needs rest, before again you wrestle words, or like a smith you hammer, beat, to smash the molten into shape. Now does it sizzle, tip dipped, cool, or maybe back to furnace heat, avoid pig-iron, brittle work, when best is wrought through sweated toil? If … Continue reading Yield and Other Poems
I continue to dream and Other Poems
By Vanaja Malathy I continue to dream As a little girl I dreamt my play to all day last, As an adolescent I dreamt of growing up fast, As a girl in teens I daydreamed a world of fantasy, damsel dreams of love and adventure you can’t see As a woman in my middle age … Continue reading I continue to dream and Other Poems
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