Poems by John Grey
Love Anyone?
There's a love that adopts
to this technological society
like a third hand
from fancy microwave ovens
to a ten-foot-tall refrigerator
with double freezer doors.
It can pull back...
SWIFT Songs from the Land of Giants – By George Angel
Just Another Child
Between the trees
I ran hiding
All night long
Village to village to village...
Just another invisible child
Trying to survive
Between the trees
The stars are falling...
Poems by Rose George
Powder Puff
The slender red needles
On the dark green platter
Tacked with hardknots
And stitched,
When I asked for the name
Said Powder Puff
And Laughed
Recalled the earthly declaration
That eyes...
Poems by Jaya Abraham
Winterlude
Tell me about December
The soft sigh of the latches
The clouded mirrors
In the washroom
Resolutions smudged
They peep out again
In a trail of ants
Their adventures...
Poems by George Freek
I Think of the Past
The night is clear as glass.
I observe a new moon
while it’s still there.
Wind rustles dead leaves
in snow-covered grass.
I think of...
Poems by E. Martin Pedersen
Allium sativum
My guts abhor you
as much as you abhor my guts
and every chance I get
I damn you
like a sadist mirror
showing the lady perfectly clothed
swearing...
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...
