Soul Fountain

Poem – TRICK OR TREAT? (By Ray Gallucci)

TRICK OR TREAT? "Good Christians" warn that Halloween's A festival of Satan, When nothing's standing in between Your soul and its damnation. For centuries, they witches burned With little provocation. Eternal fire claimed they'd earned. For mercy -- strangulation! The ...

Poem – HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN (PART I) (By Ray Gallucci)

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN (PART I) A shame to imagine how moon is just A memory distant we've almost lost. Appears that we only pursued in jest To travel in space -- 50 years have passed. Today's generation cannot ...

Poem – Bumping Into the Sky (By Michael H. Brownstein)

BUMPING INTO THE SKY You think intolerance a white paste you can spread across the air. Day comes with a break between minutes, the red flash of the red-winged blackbird, a greeting from your I’noGo tied* slung not to your ...

Poem – Home is Where…. (By Gary Beck)

Home is Where…. Our masters no longer reside in fortified castles that dominate the lives of all who dwell nearby, nor in grandiose palaces that dazzle the eyes of servants, the envious, seeking crumbs from tables of abundance, not in ...

Poem – DEATH BY PHYSICS (By Ray Gallucci)

DEATH BY PHYSICS If present, past and future All concurrently exist, Can what has passed before us Ever truly have been missed? If space and time are equal, Can we trade between the two? Relive the joys and pleasures Or ...

Poem – Sacked (By Donal Mahoney)

When we hire people, we like to know their limitations, said Mr. Acre, commandant of personnel. Look at Phil with his arm and hook. We could see the problem when we hired him. We've hired others with limitations not as obvious ...

Poem – Thoughts While Waiting in the ER (By Donal Mahoney)

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays after a long week of work. The rapport was strong. Amazing, you thought. She might be someone ...

Poem – I Say A Prayer For You (By Narges Rothermel)

When I pile up cut tomatoes, red onion, and radishes on top of romaine lettuce, I think of the hands that picked, cleaned, packed, and loaded them on trucks, carried them to cold rooms arranged them on shelves. As I ...

Poem – SMALL BEFORE THE SEA (By Ray Gallucci)

SMALL BEFORE THE SEA We have only pictures, A journal and rubble From what was a fixture To keep ships from trouble. A lighthouse, built sturdy, On Unimak island Around 1940, With Coast Guard as client. Five Guardsmen were manning ...