Two Poems by Andrew Shields
Sing To Your Guitar
For Wolfgang Muthspiel
The song that nobody’s ever heard
is waiting for you to play it
at the end of the path along the...
Two Poems by Stephen Mead
In Sanctuary
Between rain & steam is twenty-twenty hindsight
for the time we were young, screwed up, but good of heart still
under some bushel or other...
Three Poems by Arvilla Fee
Losing My Marbles
I roll the ball
back and forth
back and forth
in my palm
hypnotized by blue streaks
suspended inside the glass.
I once had a...
Four poems by Duane Anderson
Crime Scene
The crime scene tape to keep others
from contaminating the area
had finally been removed.
Blood still covered the sidewalk after
Mother Nature committed her latest crime,
freezing...
Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt
Terror
Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine…
It is, as if it were snowing
But what is falling is ash
A woman runs away
From her collapsing house
Carrying a child in...
Poems by Barbaros İrdelmen
Love
It cannot be told
by drowning someone in false words,
by smothering them in gifts,
by laying red carpets along their path.
Never with splendor—
love is not wrapped...
Poems by Stephen Mead
Frailties
...
Three Poems by Andrew Shields
Looking At Geoff Through A Basil Plant
It is sitting on the kitchen table.
The rain drums on the windows,
cold with summer's end. His eyes, blue-green,
stare...
Poems by Irma Kurti
We had the sea close by
We had the sea close by; wide and infinite
in its anger, it tried hard to enter our words.
We...
Three Poems by Bart Edelman
Beginnings
A good place to start.
Find that moment of courage
And, simply, jump in,
Feet first, if need be.
What other option is there?
Should you read the current,
So...
