Poetry
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 – Remembering (for Eduardo Galeano) – By Mankh
Remembering (for Eduardo Galeano) - By Mankh “I'm a writer obsessed with remembering...” - Eduardo Galeano Having heard them before, sometimes when they are nowhere to be seen i hear geese calling. Is this, Eduardo, how you were obsessed ...
Poem – Missing Feeding of the Birds (By Michael Lee Johnson)
Missing Feeding of the Birds (V3) By Michael Lee Johnson Keeping my daily journal diary short these sweet bird sounds lost- reviews January through March. Joy a dig deep snow on top of my sorrows. Skinny naked bones sparrows these ...
Poem – Warning Signs (By Gary Beck)
We ignore preparations that insure survival so citizens of neglect have little chance in a doomed nation, brought about by the greed of our masters concerned with their comforts, while the people struggle to pay the rent, put food on ...
Poem – EMBRACING CHAOS (By Ray Gallucci)
EMBRACING CHAOS - By Ray Gallucci The eye of a hurricane never can know How forcefully all its surrounding winds blow. For there in the center all's peacefully calm While swirling around are explosions of bombs. But center is where ...
Poem – LOST NO MORE? (By Ray Gallucci)
LOST NO MORE? Atlantis's legend’s a mystery no more -- Just Isles Santorini remain from its shore. Volcano that blew, fifteen hundred B.C., Replaced most of Thera with nothing but sea.* Seems Plato was right, even though off by ten ...
Poem – By Mistake He Later Said (By Donal Mahoney)
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother of his children and drank all the time. He remembered the kids saying when they were small the fellow got up ...
Poem – WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE (By Ray Gallucci)
WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE Though we arrived just yesterday In geologic time, Appears we’ve had too much to say, And none of it sublime. Repeated cometary blasts, The forces needed to Turn species into fossils past When time was ...
Poem – I Shall Leave (By Wafula p’Khisa)
When, out of exhaustion To set hurries the sun; I will be on toes To respond to call of time. I shall leave With the little I'd have reaped From the golden stool of prominence; I shall leave Behind the ...
Poem – A Husband Falters (By Donal Mahoney)
A Husband Falters Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet? The Indian buffet? Maybe the Japanese place. She likes sushi and tempura. But when he ...
