Once you’ve mastered introductions,directions, small talk conversations about family and weekend plansOnce certain sentences form themselves with ease, skipping the stop between head and mouth Then how do you describe your heartbeat in another country? Dreams that weave in and outtangled in two different tongues? How do you say, I want to trace the freckles … Continue reading Love Song Competition Poetry Co-Winner: “Learning to Love in Another Language” by Haley DiRenzo
Love Song Competition Poetry Co-Winner: “A Winter Love Poem” by James G. Piatt
“Peace, my heart, let the time for parting be sweet. Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.” Rabindranath Tagore Winter sneaked up on us this past year, warning us that our time was near. And, as a clock struck the late hour of the night, we … Continue reading Love Song Competition Poetry Co-Winner: “A Winter Love Poem” by James G. Piatt
Toy Soldiers
By Seungwoo Lee I remember; as a child, I quietly watched my older brother stationing a troop of toy soldiers on our new wooden floorshinin’ with luster. He had them all lined up, and I just wanted to knock ‘em down, with all my scanty might. And so, I came along with my hands filled, … Continue reading Toy Soldiers
Magical Touch to Autumn
By Vanaja Malathy rugged mountains pose still to the daub of golden paintas the aspens stain the rockies splash to smear yellow and gold, lace orange and red a canvas of spectacular view beautiful landscape turns into a dreamscapeI stand in ecstasy and elationlost in the mesmerizing, magical beauty of aspen’s artof awesome autumn. i … Continue reading Magical Touch to Autumn
To my Moon
By Josephine Rudolf The world only knows me when the sun is out,A select few have seen a cloudy day.But never night—I always hid that.Hiding in dark corners, almost freezing to death.Yet the second that corner was exposed,Something came back to life.It wasn’t me, but she looked the part,Which used to be enough. When we … Continue reading To my Moon
Winter
By Mae Gonzalez Long gone are the leaves of fallLong gone are the people outside,Hoping they would find a good pumpkin.But I’m here.Inside, Looking out the window covered in frost.And I’m waiting,To do everything I missed in the fall.To do everything I missed in every season.Summer, spring,Fall.I couldn’t do it in summer, it was just … Continue reading Winter
Four Winter Haiku
By Jim Bates After the snowstormWinter's soft gentle beautySnow on evergreens.At the skating rinkHappy folks spin and swirlA winter ballet.Big cold moon risingMoonlight streaming brilliantlyIcy land sparkling.Bright morning sunBirds flit through snow covered treesSinging merrily. Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories have appeared online in CafeLit, The Writers' Cafe … Continue reading Four Winter Haiku
Bravado
By Anthony David Vernon The measure of a man is respectWeighted in how he fights for his womanAnd how he earns his keepAt least that’s what my brother told meMan is expected respectSo he cannot back down from a burden placed before himBut the weight is so much to bareAnd it seems easier and kinderTo … Continue reading Bravado
My Poetry is Blue
By Mike Turner My poetry is blueLike the vaulting summer skyFleecy clouds and warming sunThe winds on which to flyMy poetry is blueLike the bounding, endless seaSails of white and gold beach sandsCast off, and voyaging freeMy poetry is blueLike the depths of wan despairThough faith, longing, endurance, hopeGive us some comfort thereMy poetry is … Continue reading My Poetry is Blue
In My Own Little World
By Samanyu Kotha In my own little world,Exiled by my mind,Into the depths of imagination,Here I lie beyond time and space,I rest in a limbo, without a trace,I think I’m so strong,So powerful and all-knowing,Little do I know that I’m fooling myself,You’re insane they say,Get a better hobby,Here in my mind,I seek to be surreal,What … Continue reading In My Own Little World
Academy of the Heart And Mind 