By Richard LeDue I I was love starved, hungry for a touch without realizing at first that my hands can also burn bacon and still expect you to eat it. II These days, they say pigs are too smart to eat, yet that doesn't stop the grocery stores from selling bacon at half price to … Continue reading Fives Ways to Ruin Bacon
Peaches and Other Poems
By Robert Ronnow Peaches Wherever peaches grow I go and pick ‘em. When they get ripe I try and swipe ‘em. The farmer runs out with a shotgun and wonders where’s the varmint gone? I’m hiding by the railroad tracks stacking the peaches I’ve found. Then a freight train about a mile long rolls by … Continue reading Peaches and Other Poems
Swaddling and Other Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Swaddling It was summer when she passed - we knew come spring she would not last. But as fresh buds broke from dead wood, the tree stump bark cork cambium erupted, unexpected growth, we set our minds to recreate, wrapped in those tie-dyes, student years, free spirited, our crazy route - wherever … Continue reading Swaddling and Other Poems
Upheld and Other Works
By Alex Andy Phuong Upheld Do more than uphold Have the head held up high, and Be honestly bold Angle Newfound perspective Relatively relative A new point of view The Good Choice Negative antagonists Will always go against Positive protagonists But there is no shame in being good Because sometimes good things Are truly evil … Continue reading Upheld and Other Works
I Wonder and Bread on Water
By Amrita Valan I Wonder If I had been a flower And you had picked the hue I wonder, if you'd let me be The brightest shade of blue? If I had been your hummingbird And you my song did choose I wonder, would you have picked a song That crooned my deepest blues? If … Continue reading I Wonder and Bread on Water
Learning from Strands and An Err to Hear
By Anila Pillai Learning from Strands To be civilised costs high And to be wild adds volume and waves. To remove strangled you cannot take the whole but Bits and sections small, revoke the tangles right. Stress or stretch on any matter will lead to break, Slow and caring touch will make it look Right. … Continue reading Learning from Strands and An Err to Hear
Blue She Was and Other Prose Poems
By Ennie Moe Blue She Was She was Blue; An azure River that flowed with the terms of the wind — aimless and lost in an ocean of pitch black.She was Blue, for melancholy had marred her soul with burning bruises of pale lilac.She was Blue, and she knew not any other color to feel than the one … Continue reading Blue She Was and Other Prose Poems
Missing and Other Poems
By Andrew Scott Missing Used to see pictures of the missing, everyday, everywhere. The persons were either gone for days or for yeas on end. Makes a person think how or why they went missing. For some, when it came time, did the person become lost, disoriented due to a condition? Not knowing where they … Continue reading Missing and Other Poems
Fearless of Death
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein I fear not Death. Death is the ultimate truth. Death is waiting. For the next life Where I will be judged. By the Almighty. Or there is no afterlife. But Death is the end. The curtains of the play called life Finally comes to close. Death is where are no … Continue reading Fearless of Death
Summer Contest Poetry Winner: “A Late Summer’s Billboard at Dusk” and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse A Late Summer’s Billboard at Dusk There’s promised relief dead ahead. Finally, stopping for bread! We’ll spend lots of dough, because, on the go, our car guzzles gas without lead. Another long, tiresome day. Before sunrise, we’re on our way. Each joyful summer vacation’s a bummer, but we’d rather leave home than … Continue reading Summer Contest Poetry Winner: “A Late Summer’s Billboard at Dusk” and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 