Poetry
Poem – The Fuse (By DS Maolalai)
The Fuse I was hungover, boiling water. the coffee smelled intense as trees falling when I burst the foil, and specked my daylight and made me wrinkle my nose like a rabbit unburrowed in the sand. it was good. I ...
Poem – ANCESTOR WORSHIP (By Ray Gallucci)
ANCESTOR WORSHIP The Gothic doors beckon me in. I enter. The nave is dim Though from the vaults the lights suspend And through the glass the colors blend. I forward step into the past Where medieval shadows cast. Distracted. What's ...
Poem – THE LINT LIMERICK (By Joseph Cavera)
THE LINT LIMERICK (By Joseph Cavera) There once was a swordsman named Link Who wore everything from light blue to pink He unsheathed his sword As he confronted a demon horde Who beat him with clubs in a wink Ganondorf ...
Poem – Sylvia’s Son (By Layla Lenhardt)
Sylvia’s Son I was wrapped in a towel like a bad dream, wet feet on linoleum. I was too preoccupied to see the cracked blood, to hear the silence until I was knee- deep in your tomb. Sometimes, I dreamt ...
A Collection of Movie Poems (By Ray Gallucci)
The following is a collection of five movie based poems submitted by one of our very talented contributors.... writer & poet, Ray Gallucci. SPY IN THE SKY (Based on the movie, Eye in the Sky, ”which focuses on several sets ...
Poem – All I Had Was Gone (By R.T. Castleberry)
I take a 12 month chip, a copy of The Iceman Cometh, drape myself in Union blue, cultivate a salesman’s grinning grip. A Valley trip lies ahead, road miles registered in a company car. Spring becoming summer, there’s a ghost ...
Poem – Secrets of The Heart (By Lynn Long)
Feelings of uncertainty trapped inside absurdity As leaden stones of gray keep the hearts frailty at bay Hidden jewels, the souls fool Treasures beyond endeavor Forever to remain Forbidden to impart The secrets of one's heart ...
Poem – Melody (By Fabrice B. Poussin)
Melody With delicate touch through the air, she penetrates in words the hearts of all; perfume and incense that hypnotizes, her being travels in time and space. With lines of enthralling pictures, flowers raise above the cotton rag, clouds float ...
Poem – A-PATHETIC (By Ray Gallucci)
A-PATHETIC Expecting the bad, receiving the worse, To pessimist's just what's par for the course. But when it devolves from worse to the worst, Seems even a pessimist can feel cursed. A cynic’s convinced whatever is right Cannot be achieved ...
Poem – MEET THE MADNESS (By John Grey)
■ MEET THE MADNESS A Providence twilight, late November, every man and woman dressed in gray, sliding in and out of panels or emerging from dark recesses, all faces plain, hair drab, eyes shut, tongues muted, and there, high up ...
