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
A Little Piece of Heaven and Other Poems
By Fabrice Poussin A Little Piece of Heaven Late by the dimming spark of an abandoned candle she stumbled upon pieces of other people’s memories buried deep at the foot of her forgotten attic celebrated by shrouds of ancestral dust. Soon she found herself outside of time sitting in her little girl’s summer dress as … Continue reading A Little Piece of Heaven and Other Poems
Holesome Dough (A Song by the Pharaoh’s Maestro, D’oh-Raymese) and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse Holesome Dough (A Song by the Pharaoh's Maestro, D’oh-Raymese) Doughnuts are our favorite bread, rainy days or in sunshine. Meaningfully, each kid pled, “Father, tell him this one’s mine!” Soulful eyes are watching you; lots of begging while they chew; teasing you to give them two, ’cause they can’t live without dough, … Continue reading Holesome Dough (A Song by the Pharaoh’s Maestro, D’oh-Raymese) and Other Poems
Ancient Grains and Other Poems
By Robert Beveridge Ancient Grains Tra, tra, tra, it’s in the pretext, in the mines, in the hallway that extends every time you kiss the hem of the alienist’s patchwork suit. The meme replicates in the medulla, the batteries poke their heads out of the sand, the wormwood’s in the rice again, pa, chase it … Continue reading Ancient Grains and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 