Soul Fountain

Poem – Part II (By David Russell)

Part II Let calcium lines be shaved of moss and other growth be centered, Re-score the patterns. All who change and slither shall live; those who clinch all roots shall perish. Wilful ignoring and retraction is a key to survival ...

Poem – The Highway Child (By John A Brennan)

Dear Jimi, I had the honor of meeting you in London in January 1969. I worked as a set carpenter at the BBC recording studios West London. You were there to record some of your “BBC Sessions” tracks. I was ...

Poem – Mid-Life (By David Russell)

Mid-Life So much happened; So much didn’t – So nice to remember; So painful to recall Now nothing is all, The power to recall Is an anaesthetic – Past strength Is pathetic. In the middle, What’s kept still here What ...

Poem – VERMILLION SPACE (By Joseph Cavera)

VERMILLION SPACE (By Joseph Cavera) Think of all the ways we do The things that run all our days through At that clever standing pace Fly up this world’s human race I’d sooner see black comets pass Than the fall ...
Photo Credit: Suffocatingby JolsAriella

Playgroup Politics

There is something deeply suffocating about life today in the prosperous west. Bourgeoisification, the suburbanisation of the soul, proceeds at an unnerving pace. Tyranny becomes docile and subservient, and soft totalitarianism prevails, as obsequious as a wine waiter. Nothing is ...

Poem – Answering Machine (By Donal Mahoney)

■ Answering Machine   My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone's on my side of the bed.   And I say that’s because after all these years we ...

Short Fiction – The Candle Lights (By Melissa R. Mendelson)

The Candle Lights by, Melissa R. Mendelson A soft glow slipped across the darkness.  It chased the shadows away.  All the unwanted emotions like doubt and fear became silenced.  Peace was no longer a dream, and the body would know ...

Poem – AWAKENING (By Nicolo Santilli)

AWAKENING (By Nicolo Santilli) there are realms of beauty   which can only be approached by dark paths     and their glow is the brightness   of darkness and suffering     awakening into light ...

Poem – She Climaxed (By Agbaakin O. Jeremiah)

She Climaxed she starts with a song. suddenly, a dirge too limp with grief, like the skies in Pompeii. it's killed the birds in my heart, ships stagger like a drunk, into the white-blush of maddened waves. the earth popped ...

Poem – To The Last Detail (By Henryk Baranski)

To The Last Detail AND THE YOUNG WHORE PLAYED OUT HER PART AS THE FORGOTTEN SAILORS PLAYED OUT THEIRS SHE LOOKED SO LOVELY SITTING THERE ALL NAKED AND BEAUTIFUL ENTICING THE PRISONER TO RUN AWAY. AND HE DID TRY TO ...