Nights Are Nothing
Nights Are Nothing Harems of young people scamper along Paths beside the Navigli waterway. Purple and red neon replace blue day,...
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By Drew Keane
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Dirt
Is it quite fair to say dirt's only brown? Are there not other colors there? — Look down. That brown is multifaceted and could Be broken...
D.B. Jonas
- May 25
- 1 min
Ragged Right: Songs of Reticence
I fashioned this verse / who knows from what? - William IX of Aquitaine, Farai un vers de dreyt nïen Here will all the word-strings,...
By Michael R. Burch
- May 9
- 1 min
Sunset
for my grandfather, George Edwin Hurt Sr. Between the prophecies of morning and twilight’s revelations of wonder, the sky is ripped...
By Martin McCarthy
- May 2
- 2 min
Erato & Other Poetry
Sunset I am travelling towards you, and the night, like a brown-skinned girl ablaze with emotion, is stepping boldly out of her clothes....
By Craig Dobson
- May 1
- 1 min
Old Nights and Other Poems
Old Nights Was it incubus or succubus who – groggy, doe-eyed – walked me through the fine rain, sleeping? Older now, still wet from then,...
By Evan Schmitt
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Myrtle Beach
Summer sands swirl their salt in pools of shade, where dove wing tides send shark teeth to the shore. The scientist in sunscreen, shells...
By John Steele
- Apr 20
- 1 min
No U-turns & Other Poetry
No U-turns Growing old is bittersweet. You thought you were immune. How could you be a dead-end street? Stressed about stuttering...
By Adam Sedia
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Crocuses
You meekly poke your purple heads Through stubborn clumps of snow That yet persist in fallow beds Though balmy breezes blow; First to...
By Carey Jobe
- Apr 15
- 2 min
The Desktop Muse & Other Poetry
The Desktop Muse The dealer droned on despite my frown, then I noticed her, hunched and gravel, kept on a cluttered shop floor long...
By Royal Rhodes
- Apr 11
- 2 min
The Road From Delphi
They said that all the old gods had died, and a strange, plaintive voice had been heard announcing the death from the mountains down to...
By Johnny Payne
- Apr 11
- 2 min
El Cid
You’re galloping like El Cid, on a flat Mississippi stretch on a quarter horse-Arabian mix, rented from a nearby ranch its legs as long...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Easter
Here, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
By John H. B. Martin
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Eurydice
That was the Sistine Chapel, wedged between our complex life and all that slept beneath your kisses, and my curses, as we danced love's...
By Agnes Wathall
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Sea Fever & Other Poems
Sea Fever No ancient mariner I, Hawker of public crosses, Snaring the passersby With my necklace of albatrosses. I blink no glittering...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 24
- 1 min
Fields & Other Poetry
Lavender The lavender serenely sways On quiet fields and sleepy dales, But dreams awake me from my slumber, Causing the fields and skies...
By Michael R. Burch
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Daredevil
There are days that I believe (and nights that I deny) love is not mutilation. Daredevil, dry your eyes. There are tightropes leaps...
By Laura Celise Lippman
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Black Windows of Night & Other Poetry
Black Windows of Night Each night we sit together as the dark lengthens and the snowy mountains fade at an earlier hour. I light candles...
By Robert Funderburk
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Beyond Seasons & Other Poetry
Beyond Seasons The leaves of autumn’s frosty winds, red and gold and rust, draw more beauty from death than sunlight and gentle rain on...
By Cori Steinberg
- Mar 5
- 1 min
Picasso & Other Poetry
Picasso Of all a sudden Changed every thing Curve of the orbit Shift of the frame. Head tilt the world Appears downside up Thoughts new...
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