By Jess Whetsel Platonic Love Previously published in The Amazine There is a room in my heart that only you can enter. You forged a key from curiosity and devotion, tied it ‘round your neck with fishing line, but still you knock first, let me open the door. I welcome you in with a checkerboard … Continue reading Platonic Love and Other Poems
Land upon a star and Other Poems
By Dennis Williams Land upon a star You work, I sweat, and they collect the payment on the next fourth night. Many gather, few are compensated and the needs of the majority are never met. While the chief unscrupulous frolic in splendor with his chosen few. So it set the space cannot accommodate the cry … Continue reading Land upon a star and Other Poems
For My Mother and Other Poems
By Angela Kosta Translated by the Indian poet Dilip Mewada For My Mother... I have written several lines and endless verses with my tears, pain of love for her. Where are you, my mother? I wish to kiss your eyes with goodness once again! I want to caress your warm hands just the way you … Continue reading For My Mother and Other Poems
Blood
By John Sierpinski The beginning of an end Before I gave blood, the phlebotomist said, Your last name is misspelled on your driver’s license. Then at the dreaded DMV, passport in hand, a picture that doesn’t even look like now, anymore. The clerk telling me to wait while she checks with her supervisor. I watch … Continue reading Blood
A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
By Claudia Wysocky A Cog in the Machine I am just a robot, A dull, lifeless piece of machinery, Programmed to follow simple algorithm. Life is not meant for me, I am merely a cog in the machine, Running on repeat and shutting down, —When the program ends— But I am more than their calibrations, … Continue reading A Cog in the Machine and Other Poems
Glass
By Olumide Holloway (King Olulu) It’s Glass Can't see it But can feel it The limits The restrictions And the rejections. Can't stop now Too late to turn back Too far gone And don't want a life of regrets. It’s Glass It talks and writes Sometimes it says NO Most times it is...silent But the … Continue reading Glass
Four Blood Drive Poems
By Duane Anderson Treats and Drinks You could say that I am a paid volunteer, not with money, but I get to eat all the same snacks, fruit juices, and water they offer to the donors after they have donated a pint of their blood. It is my morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack, six … Continue reading Four Blood Drive Poems
Fisher and Other Poems
By Annabel Reyes Fisher Nourishing focus: empty and hungry he gives us time.. searching alone with one worm on fishing line. Alone or with one another we... forage. Desperation for atonement, We tug on our rod. Questing and questioning incessantly we sit for our lessons..it takes time to mature to see that glorious sunset; there … Continue reading Fisher and Other Poems
Heat of Pearls and Other Poems
By Naveed Siddiqui Heat of Pearls I do not know, if I saved anything for you and I tonight everything slipped, falling away, dripping from my palms, those restless dreams now flow in orbits, alongside streams, walking among ocean beds, so immense, so are in its charms. Look at the stones, once collected, now leave … Continue reading Heat of Pearls and Other Poems
A Daughter’s Thoughts
By Meg Goldberg May 14, 2023 The 3rd Mother’s Day without my own Her life, snuffed out quietly amongst morphine drips and banned visitations felt extra tragic. 2020 be damned, she must have been so lonely! Overcome by strong emotions, harboring grief, I push it deep down into the darkness of my mind. She would … Continue reading A Daughter’s Thoughts
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