Categoría: poetry
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Mollusk Mapping by Gerry Fabian
Like eating oysters, you are an acquired taste. Your juicy mouth and sliding tongue slip slowly with a hint of Tabasco heat.
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It’s All Transcedental by Selma Martin
It’s All Transcedental by Selma MartinLittle bell, little bellIn the middle of the dayYou made me pause for a momentJust to listenAnd in the pause I found my joyFired me up—made me wholeShowed me the miracleThat in my day had been missingHad you not beckoned to my sensesTo take this…
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Featuring «Pieces of Anjie: Poetry from My Soul» by Anjetta Williams-Brown
Enjoy this selection of poems and art from «Pieces of Anjie: Poetry from My Soul» A Creative Ascent As the sun rises within,I can feel my soul come alive.The walls in my head attempt to separate.The words fight each other to get out,With my eyes closed my thoughts began to…
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Featuring «More Inclinations» and «Natural Inclinations» by Kevin Cowdall
More Inclinations is a followup to Natural Inclinations. Natural Inclinations was inspired by my appreciation of (and concern for) the natural world in all its elements. More Inclinations continues this. Lots of people have asked me if I’d ever written a poem about . . . (various animals, insects, flowers, etc), so a…
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Wildflower By Bianca Alina
Wildflower By Bianca Alina Touch me. Make me become one with the fire.I will burn and burn,My flames will dance under your skinUntil you’re addicted to this delicious sin. Hide me in one of your most sensual poems,And write spring verses on my bosom.Love me hard,Make me bloom. I’m a…
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In the mirror by Marcello Comitini
Along the path we travelwithout having known,that in the magic of the mirrorwhere we touched with lips and glanceswords crumble like stonesroll without knowing where.A livid wall of silence swallows them upand they turn into faded oleander dusty,faded by an anguished wind.Or maybe they were the dark green of the…
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How we learn to fly by Walter Bargen
Featherless. Not an ounce Of air in these bones, Dense with marrow And the traffic of blood. Calcium solid. Two legs, Thick-thighed, heavy-calved, Over-boned knees, Broad flat feet, nails not claws. Two arms and a fervid desire To perch on window sills On the eighty-eighth floor, If only for a…
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Talking Shop by Kushal Podar
The eyes travel beyond lights here and even ahead of the Stars. The bell shaped flowers Share their treasures silence and rain. you have been shedding your life. I stoop and pick up one of the fragments. «Can I sell it?» I ask. You say, «You’re the cognoscenti.» This place…
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Playthings by Lynn White
It’s the need to possess that baffles me, the need to own objects of no decorative or use value, objects destined to become encumbrances sooner or later, passive playthings out of their time moved on into a time when even the box, it’s wrapping and ribbons fails to excite creativity.…
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“Bathroom Floor” by April
“Bathroom Floor” by April You take every piece of me until there is nothing leftI cry and silently weptMy mom, she is dead You promised til death do us partWhere is your heart?How come you took it this far?First time happened in the dark This broke me Can you please give…
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Abandon Ship by Paul Tristram
Emotions are Air-Peddling … as the Twist, unwinds… and BURSTS … back into sudden Flow. Swoon and Catch yourself … there’s more ‘River’ than ‘Ocean’ … whilst Journeying the Transition. The Excitement… which comes right along with Rejecting the ‘Safe’, ‘Mundane’, and ‘Routine’ is Exhilarating Magic! Letting… Go… can lead…
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“This World is Yours” by Michael L. Utley
“This World is Yours” by Michael L. Utley you thought you couldsave the worldwee ladyou couldn’t evensave yourself those bleak nighthawk skieswhere dead stars falllike blood-bloated fliesand fey winds howlin deafened earsa behemoth’s fetid exhalationviolent and ignorantand inexorable breathebreathe it all inthe sweat-soaked fearthe bitter tang of futilityfill your lungswee…
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Knowing The Now by Lynn White
When you climbed that mountain in the days when no one else was on the paths, when you reached the summit ready for a lonely leap in the days when the space was empty of the selfie taking crowd, when you recognised the transience, the capture of a moment in…
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a collaborative renga by Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina ChinÌkó Nkwụ
— Uchechukwu Onyedikam/Christina Chin Ìkó Nkwụ cups the moon in full morning intoxication sweet bubbles blurred moon one conversation to another intimate talks punctuated by a hum late night heat and unrestored electricity different stories a picture of a generator-powered night first visit home with extra luggage Òyìnbó seeing home…
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«A Poet’s Tender Heart» by Joni Caggiano
«A Poet’s Tender Heart» by Joni Caggiano love, a raindrop, a snowflake,or the uniqueness of the flight of the leafmoon shades of green bringing fortha canvas within the ocean’s kelpsongbirds sing for both you and me underneaththe power of the same blue sky black keys suit the music of yourmystifying…
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«The Beach» by Miriam Costa
«The Beach» by Miriam Costa For those who live in the sun,For those who collect the leftovers of itFor those who need the vitaminFor those who are afraid of him.For those who planted the palm treesFor their own sake….To an inner citythat fate did not let pass.For time by the…
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