By Daniel Leach1 day ago1 minThree Traditional Haikus by Daniel LeachThe 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...
By Jeffrey Essmann1 day ago2 minThree Stages SquaredAfter Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages" 1. I fastened all my wishes on a star, Although the physics that it satisfied Presumed the...
By Craig Dobson3 days ago2 minLate Imperial WoesI anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
By Rowland Hughes6 days ago2 minFalling Through Water & Mountain StreamFalling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
By Johnny PayneJun 132 minTrois Matelots du Port de BrestThree ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...
By Martin McCarthyJun 92 minForever & Other PoemsForever We are way out here on the edge of town, and a breathless, gushing ocean clings to your tidewash of shards. We are way out here...
By Caitlin JohnstoneJun 26 minI MarvelI 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...
John H. B. MartinJun 21 minDanaëWe have been promised gold like this before … But, now it glows on trees, we can't ignore it. One day we'll harvest it … Or mine it,...
By David B. GosselinMay 302 minSpring LilacsI. One morning, I found Lilacs in the rain: The sun had fled, the birds had stopped singing, The skies were dimmed by gaunt and graying...
By Daniel LeachMay 272 minOde: Spring MourningThe first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
By James A. TweedieMay 241 minClay PotsAnd yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 God takes a ball...
By Daniel PlattMay 181 minLooking DownBehold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
By Lily PrigionieroMay 152 minRestoring Pontormo’s VeronicaI swear he breathed down my neck. I smelled his pungent manhood, grimy crusts on his pant thighs he was no faint knight— a madman in...
By Richard KatrovasMay 121 minA Riff on Abstraction"Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
By Johnny PayneMay 112 minNatural Bridge SuiteI Steep path, up the limestone stair, sediment and sand hardened to bedrock, yet porous. Groundwater flowing through, that reinvents the...
By Jeffrey EssmannMay 71 minAngels & Other PoetryAngels Perhaps it’s simply age that makes it hard To recognize the world as someplace where An inner spirit once itself declared, A...
By Michael R. BurchMay 41 minEbb TideMassive, gray, these leaden waves bear their unchanging burden— the sameness of each day to day while the wind seems to struggle to say...
By Adam SediaMay 11 minCrocusesYou meekly poke your purple heads Through stubborn clumps of snow That yet persist in fallow beds Though balmy breezes blow; First to...
By David B. GosselinApr 262 minThe Spanish Knight — A Historical BalladWa le ghalib il Allah (God is the only victor) —Muhamed Ibn-l-Ahmar, founder of the Alhambra Palace He rode across the star-engulfed...
By Daniel PlattApr 191 minRadianceA half-life passes, others come and go, But no clairvoyant eyes can find the day When what we’ve shared will finally ebb away. Our...