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
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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...
Eight Cadenza Poems – By George Angel
These poems involve that solo of solitary thoughts that occurs near the end of one's allotment of time and space. Recognition of failure, recalibration...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
Awakening
I can’t see light through winter’s ice
the pond froze over months ago
I’ve been waiting, contemplating
wrapped in the root belief of spring
one ending is a...
Three Poems by Alex Carrigan
Ars Poetica: Cacophony
After “Ars Poetica” by Robert Allen
There’s only been a few times I let the noise write with me.
...
Three Poems – By Swati Moheet Agrawal
Childhood Home
I have craved the warmth of my childhood home.
I envy people who live in homes where birdsong is louder than traffic and trees...
