By Don Kingfisher Campbell The plants think we spend so much time moving around. The walls know too many secrets to speak, only crack. The blankets revel in their memories, stories told in threads. The sky sings out a constant revelation, if we simply listen. We are their favorites. They enjoy our drama, turning … Continue reading Responses to Us
Poems By Sudeep Adhikari
Bio: Sudeep Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer from Kathmandu, Nepal. His recent publications were with Beatnik Cowboys, Chiron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Midnight Lane Boutique, Occulum, Silver Birch Press, Eunoia Review, Utt Poetry and Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis. His poetry volume "zen of tripping zeroes" was recently released through Alien Buddha Press, USA. By … Continue reading Poems By Sudeep Adhikari
Intersection Rock
By Don Kingfisher Campbell humans drive into paved parking lot walk over dust past barbeque pits dry dirt air enters nostrils watch sun beaten rocks balance on each other thousands of Joshua trees stand around wonder if the few clouds will cry a little unseen jet in the distance roars away
Tommy Haiku #136-140
By Thomas Page Lone basketball on The side of the train track, with Party of litter The train is a display Of the olfactory, some Strange, fake vanilla Barbed wire o’er the Fence by my train window, spikes Shaped like lit sparklers The sky complements Itself with orange and blue hues Bleeding into dawn Graffiti … Continue reading Tommy Haiku #136-140
Tommy Haiku #141 -145
By Thomas Page White on blacktop, stark Declarations of commands To obey the known law. Facades of stone and Wood with white paneling o’er Vivid colored signs Shivering sun ignited With the frigid air Of new winter Frosted glass, white panels, Sleigh bells on leather straps ‘round A ring on doorknob. Slow as molasses Time … Continue reading Tommy Haiku #141 -145
Poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
By Ryan Quinn Flanagan Grandfather Clock Between the savage crags we dug him up with hands of earth and malice a grandfather clock pulled from the ground like annihilating flowers, peering through the shards of his broken glass face to know what the time was when he stopped. Simone and Sartre She was from the … Continue reading Poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Life is a Glass of Coke
By Sravani Singampalli Email id: srvscool@gmail.com Bio: Sravani Singampalli is a published writer and poet from India. She is presently pursuing doctor of pharmacy at JNTU KAKINADA university in Andhra Pradesh,India. I sit with a glass of coke I take small sips And enjoy its refreshing taste. Conversations with my friends press on And after sometime … Continue reading Life is a Glass of Coke
No Freedom
Name of the poet: Sravani Singampalli Email id: srvscool@gmail.com Bio: Sravani Singampalli is a published writer and poet from India. She is presently pursuing doctor of pharmacy at JNTU KAKINADA university in Andhra Pradesh,India. Yesterday I saw countless Number of stars In the night sky. I thought the sky Had its own life and celebrations. But … Continue reading No Freedom
“Choice”
By Kelly-Marie Manning You don’t choose someone else if you love her You don’t choose someone else when you’ve seen her sacrifice it all For you You don’t make that choice Instead you choose to love You choose to fight You choose to accept I remember looking into your eyes I saw home But … Continue reading “Choice”
“E”
This awesome piece was entered in our January Challenge 2018! By Kelly-Marie Manning They say just because you love someone doesn’t mean you are supposed to be with them. I mean, are you sure? How can it be true when someone like him exists? Years and years have passed. Years that I have spent loving him. … Continue reading “E”
