Modern Dreams
The dreams I had have been forgotten now— The dreams I once believed I knew were true— The dreams I know will haunt me every day— The...
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By Daniel Leach
- Nov 8, 2020
- 1 min
Young and Old
Old as the eons that measure the galaxies, As to the unheard music they swirl, Young as the feeling that plays in the heart And the smile...
By Brian Yapko
- Nov 3, 2020
- 1 min
Jungle Dance
Insects buzzing, feathers flapping, rumbles Of hungry mammal-mouths demanding meat; Decay and sticky leaves, a monkey tumbles Through...
By Bruce Meyer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees about Time
Like honey, there is only so much of it one can make, and even less in a season. The queens rise and fall. The tides of loyalty shift. On...
By Dan Jabe
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
The Architect's Dream
(After the painting by T. Cole) I dreamed I lay on drawing books, Atop a column, perching high, To gaze upon the world below And saw...
By Michael R. Burch
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
To Flower
When Pentheus [“grief’] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by...
By Daniel Platt
- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
To the Distant Beloved
The motion of thy tender, fragile heart, I hear it at the instant I awake, And thy mischievous laughter makes me quake In resonance, as...
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
An Andalusian Dream
Over the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the...
By Robin Helweg-Larsen
- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
"Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen
Prose and Poetry I long for Prose - but darkly, distantly, She looks at far-off lands. It’s Poetry who brings persistently Small gifts in...
By Bruce Meyer
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Friendship
As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
By Michael R. Burch
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Water and Gold and Other Poems
Water and Gold You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy’s a wan illusion to the...
The Editor
- Aug 8, 2020
- 1 min
An Original Musical Setting of "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 Paul Gallagher
- Jul 25, 2020
- 2 min
The Violin Soldier
It was a story somehow true – it likely happened so, It's strange – but there is much that's strange in human powers to know. A young...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge
The travelers had reached a gorge Whose darkness they would have to breach. The mountaintops lay far ahead— “Such darkness has a lot to...
By Gleb Zavlanov
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
'Cause You'd Be Here
The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Love
Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
By Troy Camplin
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
Birthing Pains and Other Poetry
An Invitation The gods have fled? They haven't been invited! A century has passed opposing beauty And now we stand depressed, dismayed,...
By Daniel Platt
- Jun 8, 2020
- 1 min
Mar de Hoces
Stupendous jade-hued volumes of the sea That palpitate and crest on such a scale To make the sailor's resolution quail And falter; this...
By Michael R. Burch
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
Southern Icarus and other Poems
Southern Icarus Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite . . . What do...
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