Room One hundred people in a room Speak in a deafening drone But all I can hear are my thoughts, Vehemently fighting, crying, screaming Seventy-five people in a room Dance to the hypnotic rhythm But my fleeting feet take me away From the harrowing ringing in my ears Fifty people in a room … Continue reading Poems by Antonina Rousskikh
Poems by RC deWinter
Théros Summer now – the invisible shift into another quadrant of cosmic order, eclipses blueskied the harshness of an abducted spring hung on the gallows of the greedy Boreas, never satisfied, reluctant to surrender his hold on the natural workings of the universe to the soft hands of a woman – the gentle Kore, whose … Continue reading Poems by RC deWinter
Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Irrevocable Each and every day Be careful of what others say For some would hurt and criticize Yet the noble realize That words could create pain Yet language must not restrain People for practicing nobility For the righteous use logical sense Instead of illogical sensibility Empathy Sympathy is nice Yet empathy takes more To … Continue reading Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
The Garden
By Anne Brison Come enter through the garden gate, And see the beauty that does await. Stoop beneath the climbing rose vine, And sweep past clusters of columbine. Watch the golden swaying Aspen, In the shadowy garden glen. And watch as the dragonfly swoops and darts, Among the blood red bleeding hearts. Then stop … Continue reading The Garden
The Limits of the Sun
By Ahmad Al-Khatat Take me to the limits of the sun Away from the miserable nest -of skeletons, simply because they remind me of my thirty-five years Take me back in your warm dream Where life’s bitterness appears more like a blooming rose in the direction of the cemetery, in which we can smile … Continue reading The Limits of the Sun
And Yet, We Love
By Mike Turner Loveis to takethe essence of oneself And offer it upNaked, defenseless, vulnerableto another With faiththat it will be vouchsafed tenderly And lingering knowledgethat all may be lost And yetWe love Mike Turner is a songwriter and poet living on the US Gulf Coast. He was named Male Gospel Entertainer of the Year … Continue reading And Yet, We Love
Three Poems by Thomas Page
Lascaux Hold my hand against the wall And blow the pigment through the reed Here am I and there us all And everything that you need. There’s the cattle of the plain And there the bird of the sky. Avoid the horns that cause pain And the spots that lie. We’ve been here … Continue reading Three Poems by Thomas Page
Two Poems by Marc Carver
LOVE I want to write poems in the sky so everyone can see them they could only be about love there is nothing else worth saying. surreal I see you there eyes shining pretty round face. You are looking at me but your looking says nothing. I see you are under a bed or couch. … Continue reading Two Poems by Marc Carver
A Happy Death
By Bradford Middleton My life goes by in black and white, The black words I type onto white paper And the sepia tinted black and white Of the old movie days. The films come And go, a new one every few days whilst The words, right now, continue to flow And it all … Continue reading A Happy Death
A Collection of Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Hope The notion of “never losing hope” Might sound cliché But that could really help people Not go astray Time keeps on ticking And the future might be uncertain Yet people who Hold on the their dreams And use this present moment The greatest present of all To pave a better future Impact the world … Continue reading A Collection of Poems by Alex Andy Phuong
Academy of the Heart And Mind 