By Jim Bates Heard today a sign of spring, The cooing of a mourning dove, A call of memories to bring, A song of gentle love. This bright and sunny springtime day, Soft warm breezes blowing, Peaceful time spent in the garden patch, Planting seeds and happily hoeing. A sense of patience is in the … Continue reading Signs of Spring
The Tragic Indolence and Other Poems
By Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay The Tragic Indolence Oh Hamlet! Why did you die? The Ghost had warned you not to delay and Horatio remained as a true friend. But you committed blunder to postpone your actions of killing Claudius at the first instance. You wished to send Claudius’ soul to hell instead of heaven. Fate … Continue reading The Tragic Indolence and Other Poems
Dazed: The Enslaved Mind and Other Poems
By P.A. Esangha Dazed: The Enslaved Mind His destiny in his own hand An easy trade without a brain-cap Ignorant, a man without a plan. A future he sold for a grain-cup Bottles, bottle in the house of bottles Imprisoned by his own greed Unable to solve life's puzzles He is nothing but a helot. … Continue reading Dazed: The Enslaved Mind and Other Poems
Death is Symphony of Life
By Dr. Imbesat Syed I saw beauty in death, I saw liberation in death. I felt breath in death, I saw vision in death. I heard symphonies in death, I touched life in death, For death completes life and births life. Death is the ultimate reward, Death is the ultimate destiny. Death gives life, meaning, … Continue reading Death is Symphony of Life
Nostalgia, a Sweet Reminisce and Other Poems
By Nivedita Krishna Nostalgia, a Sweet Reminisce As I walked across that lonely desolate road, No it was not a hill station filled with eternal solitude of nature, It was the same crowded route that leaded to the same destination each day, Those familiar faces were strange acquaintances Who exchanged greetings everyday, With a warm … Continue reading Nostalgia, a Sweet Reminisce and Other Poems
What Theory Alone Could Miss and In the Shade
By Sarah Bilodeau What Theory Alone Could Miss Acrylic: 2011 I encountered a new theory that sailed me to this promising path; to a glistening shore of possibility. I started applying this new idea before it was time to think, assuming its utility more often than what was needed. The theory became a black box … Continue reading What Theory Alone Could Miss and In the Shade
The Hummingbird
By Fred Miller With his wee feathered coat shining bright, he darts about in a blaze. A happy little fellow, he romps from flower to flower. I want to ask him if his tastes ever change. Do his wings make a hum, does he whistle, can he sing? Like a bee, he races this way … Continue reading The Hummingbird
The First Day of Spring? and I Know That I Know Nothing
By Ian Copestick The First Day of Spring? I was out walking this afternoon, and suddenly it seemed as if the atmosphere changed. The wind stopped cutting into me, I could sense the sun on my face. In the distance, I could see the sunlight being reflected in windows, golden, dazzling ! My spirit suddenly … Continue reading The First Day of Spring? and I Know That I Know Nothing
Watching You
By Nancy Lou Henderson Running, leaping, dancing along the electric line, watching, praying you will be fine. Straddling, clinging, sleeping on the branch of a tree, wondering, questioning if you see me. Flipping, rushing, fleeing from a Mocking bird, laughing, knowing that you heard. Digging, covering, patting the ground, loving, seeing, as you look around. … Continue reading Watching You
Fruit of Sin
By Suveeksha Viswanathan A towering ceiling fan, an untrustable axle, making my slumber my last. A rope casted round their neck, felicitous ants floating on a jar full of honey. A placid, vile snake you were, warm, loving scales coiling, I the hen unaware. A frolicking raven is to a wolf, a hook to an … Continue reading Fruit of Sin
Academy of the Heart And Mind 