By John Best Maybe that’s why when your car scraped into the rutted driveway and you emerged like a pharaoh seeking your resurrection with gold-leafed ferocity in your eyes, I was not your Isis. Maybe that’s why when your greedy fingers slid through the valleys between each rib counting coup, my soul flew like a … Continue reading Maybe That’s Why
Little bird, flying high
By Tim Law Little bird, flying high I see you above me and wonder why? Why is it that you don’t go above? To the place beyond the clouds, filled with people we love Little bird, I pray you do Fly down to me, hear my message for you The words which I need desperately … Continue reading Little bird, flying high
13 Halloween Tales: Diaphanous Spirit by Mary Steinberg
Diaphanous Spirit Ethereal Sprite Dancing on moonbeams Glossy and bright. Floating by freely Uplifting unwound Drifting and wafting Not making a sound. Spiritual Being Spun-silver delight Diaphanous Spirit Spectacular sight! Vaporous Mystic Incantations surround Swirling and swaying And turning around. Gossamer Traveler Translucence alight Releasing Your magic On Hallow’s Eve Night.
13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
I always liked old graveyards, peaceful and quiet, familiar places, their histories of families, communities, until that fateful day, when I failed to heed the sentries’ warnings to grave robbers and all who dared walk among the dead, as I descended down the lichen covered steps of the blackened churchyard, read each darkened headstone, walked … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
13 Halloween Tales: Wisps in the Wind by Dale Hensarling
This is a tale most frightening and unholy, A tale of scared girls in face-paint and curls, A tale of little boys with capes and sword toys, A tale of hobgoblins, of black cats crossing the road, A tale of spells, elixirs, and warty toads, Of twisted vines and spiderwebs gnarly. Yes! A tale most … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Wisps in the Wind by Dale Hensarling
13 Halloween Tales: Show and Tell a Halloween Spell by Alex Andy Phuong
Brewing and conjuring Concentrate and focus While dealing with Hocus Pocus Spelling out ideas And jotting down thoughts Utilizing language To cope with memories That people might have forgot, And now that the new world Is nothing like it was before, Hope is still possible To prepare for what lies in store, While also remembering … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Show and Tell a Halloween Spell by Alex Andy Phuong
13 Halloween Tales: Edgar Allan Poe and the Telemarketer by Maureen Mancini Amaturo
Once upon a midnight dreary, my cell phone rang, the number leery. Unwanted pest, this unknown caller, broke my thoughts, with breach uncalled for– I was hard at work, though nearly napping, when this man commenced kidnapping all my focus, which now is flapping, flapping from my present chore. “‘Tis some marketer,” I muttered, “flapping … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Edgar Allan Poe and the Telemarketer by Maureen Mancini Amaturo
13 Halloween Tales: The Unkindness of Ravens by Regina M. Elliott
This is a tribute poem to Edgar Allan Poe Through shadowy veils of my mournful mind is the vastness of iridescent stars, their hopeful light does not comfort me. The very thought of not being in the treasure of your presence awakens the dulling grief of my heart's loneliness. The unkind ravens have alighted on … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Unkindness of Ravens by Regina M. Elliott
13 Halloween Tales: Autumn Moments by Donna Arthur Downs
Ghosts and goblins, pumpkin heads, witches riding brooms– Telling scary stories in dimly lighted rooms– Sitting ‘round the campfire, hot-dog-roasting fumes– These are autumn moments . . . vividly in bloom. Leaves raked high from autumn trees, fiery golds and reds– Jumping deeply in the pile, covering our heads– Darker mornings, shorter days, quicker “off-to-beds”– … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Autumn Moments by Donna Arthur Downs
Just Smile and Other Poems
By Zimuzo Onah Just Smile An expanse across the milky way nature’s happiest concave curve, splattered with shines in array_ clothing the face with such verve that makes the brushes marvel “Indeed, our impact is yet larval” Cushy, yet to many a tall order cheap, yet an artifact so pricey fleeting, yet lasting years after … Continue reading Just Smile and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 