Hot and Cold
Mrs. Greenlaw modeled endless space for her third-grade students with a mobius strip, which, for its implications about the nature of...
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By Michael R. Burch
- Sep 29
- 1 min
Fascination with Light
Death glides in on calico wings, a breath of a moth seeking a companionable light, where it hovers, unsure, sullen, shy or demure, in the...
By David B. Gosselin
- Sep 28
- 1 min
Lay Down Your Armor
Lay down your armor And play for me your precious lyre; And let me hear Your deepest dreams and frail desires. Lay down your armor And...
By Bruce Meyer
- Sep 22
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Reverence
They know what I will say. I will tell them how ants covered a dead bumblebee in cherry petals, how they came bearing more than their...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Sestina: Mushrooms
Metamorphosis Up from the shadowed forest floor you rise, Grim undertakers in the train of death From whose smashed, stinking remnants...
By Siham Karami
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Triumph of Roses
The young earth hardened, heated, split, then froze, but still could not disorient the rose. We kept the emails, pictures, cards in...
By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Last Light
The last moment of sunshine dribbles from the watering-can. The moon, hunchback on a cloud, gathers its borrowed light, as the...
By Seymour Mayne
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Word Sonnets by Seymour Mayne
The word sonnet is a relatively new variation of the traditional form. In essence, it is a fourteen line poem, with one word set for each...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Fingers of Light
Fingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes. Fingers of light peel away the lies...
By Daniel Leach
- Aug 21
- 1 min
Poems Unwritten
Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the...
By Daniel Leach
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Late Summer
Late summer, and the silvery undersides Of the leaves shimmer in the hazy air, And the cicadas’ song wells up in tides That wash over my...
By Michael R. Burch
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Safe Harbor
for Kevin Nicholas Roberts (1969-2008) The sea at night seems an alembic of dreams— the moans of the gulls, the foghorns’ bawlings. A...
By Johnny Payne
- Aug 4
- 1 min
Death Letter
The barrel stave was riven where she drank. Knots nestled, she lay on the cooling board a trestle made of evenly sawed planks. I’d built...
John H. B. Martin
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Song of the Somme
(1st July - 18th November, 1916) to commemorate an omniversary May Seamus Heaney drown in his own mud! His way of writing isn't what I...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Child in the Café
Sat in the toy corner, withdrawn from the conversations around him. He opens a world of imagination, where the wooden blocks are windows...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jul 11
- 1 min
To Do List
Laundry. Vacuum. Roar at the sky. Get cat food. Get Pentagon de-funded. Win imaginary argument with God. Lose actual argument with God....
By Dean Robbins
- Jul 6
- 1 min
"Roots" & Other Poems
Roots An iron fence holds back the cluster of daisies from falling over the stone wall, though I have never known daisies to fall when...
By Dave Earnhardt
- Jul 1
- 4 min
Ode to Icarus
Oh, Icarus, son of sons, orphan father of civilized man, you’ve a right to take heart at least in that dream analysis begun with you,...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jun 24
- 6 min
I Marvel
I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
By Daniel Leach
- Jun 23
- 1 min
Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
The branch seems to float In sky’s image in water— Both are reflections. The desolation, To one with a quiet soul, Is like a refuge. Like...