By Manuel Matei The Lucky Ones How did they knew when to disappear and make the best use of their life? In true Edison style, disaster led directly to innovation: the obstacle became the path. The art of turning adversity into triumph. In order to do great things we have to endure tragedies, to love … Continue reading The Lucky Ones and Other Poems
What Else Can I Say? and Other Poems
By Esha Sury What Else Can I Say? This bone-tiredness to speak ended as pure reprieve. I dispose of my last pen and a surrendered dove, as remittance, gave its’ awareness to me in a dawn of non-talk. I wish plainly to cradle wordless breath, to unashamedly swallow the verse I could’ve written on a … Continue reading What Else Can I Say? and Other Poems
Yield and Other Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth Yield You know, like dough, a verse needs rest, before again you wrestle words, or like a smith you hammer, beat, to smash the molten into shape. Now does it sizzle, tip dipped, cool, or maybe back to furnace heat, avoid pig-iron, brittle work, when best is wrought through sweated toil? If … Continue reading Yield and Other Poems
I continue to dream and Other Poems
By Vanaja Malathy I continue to dream As a little girl I dreamt my play to all day last, As an adolescent I dreamt of growing up fast, As a girl in teens I daydreamed a world of fantasy, damsel dreams of love and adventure you can’t see As a woman in my middle age … Continue reading I continue to dream and Other Poems
Time and Other Poems
By Marc Isaac Potter Time Pairs of little bare feet Running across the Kentucky Bluegrass, Children laughing as they run, Showing off their new Easter clothes. Pappa pops a beer In the hot pool and chugs this one too. Momma is in the house Peeling carrots while Auntie Cleans in another part of the house. … Continue reading Time and Other Poems
Wildflower and Other Poems
By Monique de Koning Wildflower Trees lush with cherry blossoms caught in the corner of my eye, overlooking a meadow of mesmerizing shades as far as skies reach: the artist's selection, chosen to attract butterflies and honeybees gathering from afar to attend this season's feast, hosted by Mother Nature. Grass joyously engaged in a silent … Continue reading Wildflower and Other Poems
Reminder and Other Poems
By Robin Bass Reminder I know the pain will dissipate. This day will become yesterday, to months ago, & years ago, until finally it is simply back then. What was a mountain, is now a memory for safekeeping. For it is that time you made it through, when you thought you couldn’t. Release There was … Continue reading Reminder and Other Poems
The Pumpkin Spice Girls and Sound
By Milla Kuiper The Pumpkin Spice Girls The girls, they Drink pumpkin spice in the fall And peppermint at Christmas Pick flowers in the spring, And eat strawberries in summer. Wear their little scarves Or frilly sundresses, Dark colors in winter, Knitted sweaters in autumn, Pastels in spring, Cropped tees when the sun beats down. … Continue reading The Pumpkin Spice Girls and Sound
Two Leaders, One Shared Cause and Other Poems
By Douglas J. Lanzo Two Leaders, One Shared Cause Dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Two leaders of their peoples, yearning to be free, shattering cruel vestiges, of tragic slavery. The first, son of a pastor, thundering Sundays, the second, raised in Egypt, kin to Hebrew slaves. Both spoke out for true … Continue reading Two Leaders, One Shared Cause and Other Poems
Dripping and Empty Space
By Noée Spiegel Dripping I stare right through the glass Right through it’s layers of transparence and it’s nuance of azure Lips ever so plump, filled to the brim with senseless idioms A glass so full it’s contents drip over it’s edge Pathetically one might say Brave another may reply The faucet’s incessantly trickling, chunks of … Continue reading Dripping and Empty Space
Academy of the Heart And Mind 