Poems by John Grey
Among the Flowers
Here,
alight on my fingertip.
However,
fresh from its cocoon,
the black and gold butterfly
chooses the nearest flower
over the poet,
though a wing almost touches
as it...
Poems by Ken Anderson
God
God yawns and rakes a hand through silver hair, pulls faces,
tweaks noses. God’s life is not as one supposes.
God is always neatly dressed,...
Poems by Gabriella Garofalo
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Not now, not in this room,
Too many clouds, waves, rowdies and easy nights,
So they’re giving up the whole shebang,
Those desecrated skies where she would...
Three Poems by George Freek
(Author's note: The below poems were inspired by early Chinese poetry)
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Lost in the Vast Cosmos (After Liu Yong)
The sickle moon is a false
smile in...
Poems by Rajesh Chithira
Translated by Jaya Anitha Abraham
The girl called Isis*
The child on the shore
Writes about the sea
She is not afraid,
That the maiden wave might
Erase the first...
Ashvamedha – By Gabriel Rosenstock
Introductory note:
Ashvamedha, a poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, awakens a very distant memory of a ritual which is associated not only with...
Poems by John Grey
A Rose by its name only
This is it –
a rose,
not quite pink,
not quite yellow,
but both at once,
and red and white besides.
Awed by its beauty,
sniffing...
Poems by Eve Dineva
My New Home’s Inhabitant
Dusty sunlight crawls
flat on the wall
skipping the cracks
or falling deeply inside them.
My eyes catch the edge
of this lazy, auburn...
Poems by Robert Ronnow
Home Schooling
November and April
when the trees are first bare and last naked
have become my favorite months. All the food eaten
except last rose hips and...
Poems by Sreekala Sivasankaran
Easel
Schizo and Phrenia
Two people in one room
Both like each other
Both hate each other
So when an easel was gifted to Schizo
Phrenia objected
I...
