Six Poems by Colin Ian Jeffery
Cat
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Serene and relaxed
Sitting on lap
Purring being stroked
Soothing words of love spoken.
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Hunting in the garden
Seeking mice and birds
Creeping through...
Four Poems by Duane Anderson
Let’s Bleed
He walked into the room
and said “Let’s bleed.”
It was his time,
the right building, the right room,
right day, right time.
I took his name and...
3 Poems by George Freek
Walking Home on a Dark Night
On a dark night, the stars
offer promise,
but they’re far away, buried
in the deepness of the sky.
The moon is...
Poems by Nolo Segundo
On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard
I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent--
so I left the computer...
Poems by Yakir Ben-Moshe
Translated from the Hebrew by Dan Alter
Oh Yakir
In the passed-out light of night
when body
melts into flesh
letters break out of us
& gaps are fired into...
Irish Poet’s Bilingual Tribute to Ada Deer, Advocate on behalf of Native Americans
Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock's bilingual poem in Irish and English as a tribute to Native American advocate Ada Deer who died at the age...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
Redial
I’m sorry, the life you have dialed
is unavailable. Please hang up
and try your call again later.
I sigh and go back to laundry,
dirty diapers, a...
The Lives of the Painters – By Constantin Severin
The Lives of the Painters a special book of poetry which include 25 poems (at the border between ekphrastic writing, essay, poetry and confession)...
Ears to Hear – Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
While the world cries about the burgeoning ecological crisis, below is a bilingual Tanka ( Irish-English ), suggesting that ecological wisdom was there all...
Ukraine : The Silence of the Bees
By Gabriel Rosenstock
This is a bilingual tanka (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in Irish and English in response to a painting by Ukrainian-Polish artist Jan Stanisławski (1860...
