By Tony Tinsley A Minor Poet I crave fame, but I’ll never write Of trees, or woods or tambourine players. No homage will I ever pen to ravens or albatross. Sleep is practice for death, But I’ll not rage against the night, Nor wail about captains, for I have none. I know not why the … Continue reading A Minor Poet
The Concert and Other Poems
By Anne Mikusinski The Concert At first, there’s Silence. Then Loops and whorls of sound Fill up the room Rising and falling Feeding on all emotion and Anticipation Of the waiting crowd A flash and flood of light Reveal The players, at their places Settled into Tonight’s temporary home And for a while No outside … Continue reading The Concert and Other Poems
Opposites
By Shane Blades Your world had that verdancy found in the countryside While I felt all the tedium of a grey oppressed city When you heard the calling of the corncrake – a rarity now I listened to the constant conversation of diesels Finding myself too close to their heavy fumed breathing Your view saw … Continue reading Opposites
Love in Times of War
By Maliha Iqba Originally published in New Verse News The last thing that survives When the frightened mother Hides her littler children behind her In the face of the hard glint of a soldier’s gun The last thing that survives When the eldest child loses his childhood and innocence Because he is the only one … Continue reading Love in Times of War
Shine Taken and Other Poems
By Stephen Mead Shine Taken Hole where you were, hole where smell & sweat was a well of warmth. To sip from there was having parchment abruptly become leaves growing right out of the page: The book of you, the riddle in a face so unconsciously itself, so innately expressive yet almost totally mute, summoned … Continue reading Shine Taken and Other Poems
tatters and Other Poems
By RC deWinter tatters for all my years lived-in many universes of this many-colored world i’m sometimes an innocent more than aware of evil but often unable to comprehend its perpetration i would no more slander someone than try to fly without wings and being no angel surely have none though my tongue wags loud … Continue reading tatters and Other Poems
Observation and Other Poems
By Anne Mikusinski Observation In the balcony I sit Watching As below Grounded but in full flight You soar Carried by passion's currents And unchecked inhibition You meet me where I am And usher inspiration in. Third Interlude Your voice fills up this space Like smoke Seeping into corners And entering each room With or … Continue reading Observation and Other Poems
The Heart’s Reflection
By Adegboyega Kayowa Beauty is not in clothes, not in figure or hair. Beauty must be seen from within, in her eyes, the doorway to her heart. Love resides there. Adegboyega Kayowa is an emerging Nigerian Writer. They write from Anambra, where they also study. They play chess and read romance novels when they are not … Continue reading The Heart’s Reflection
Waking Flowers
By Sally Boyington Sun paints the sky from beneath the horizon in streaky hues stolen from petals of flowers still sleeping, wrapped up securely against the wearisome night. This light will soon strengthen creep forward slip across their shy and gentle faces and startle into wakefulness the bright unfolding bliss of morning. Wrapped in a … Continue reading Waking Flowers
The Protagonist
By Ivan S. Asanovic Separated from myself, Looking back on my past, Separated, seeing it all at once, As everything starts to unfold. Witnessing it all, As a distant spectator with no stakes at all, Previous shame, disgrace and wrongs are disappearing in distance, With no weight or meaning anymore. But all the good moments … Continue reading The Protagonist
Academy of the Heart And Mind 