Poetry
Poem – Fifty Years Later (By Donal Mahoney)
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know. She was only 14 but she could have said good-bye to me, the swain who saw her through our last ...
Poem – Martha and Mel Wait for the Elevator (By Donal Mahoney)
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome. Every time a door opened a voice called the names of 12 zombies who ...
Poem – Dark Secrets (By Angelica Fuse)
■ Dark Secrets from collar to corner, from newspaper print to blink screen, the bad news spreads faster than the pleasant stores of rescue, wrongs search for wrongdoer, like flashlights in the dark. Author Bio: Angelica Fuse is an ...
Poem – My Awkuzu Mistake (By Emmanuel Stephen Ogboh)
My Awkuzu Mistake Maybe it'd been a perfect end That time we shared at Awkuzu On crumpled cotton bedsheets— Testimony of what we called love Or maybe we should've just ended it That infamous night in February You confessed I ...
Poem – DARKWATER BEACH (By Joseph Cavera)
DARKWATER BEACH (By Joseph Cavera) The moon lies low On the blackened shores The tide is impenetrable Under this darkening sky Mirth so absent, in the undertow The ravishing darkness, from longevic lores Each wave skips- inimitable This place is ...
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 – THE LOVE BUSINESS (By Joseph Cavera)
THE LOVE BUSINESS (By Joseph Cavera) It’s never simple, This business you, you know Be it fading ripples Ebb and flow The rises and falls never cease To come, and go And yet…we persist We press on with what we ...
Poem – shining (By Nicolo Santilli)
Shining - By Nicolo Santilli the light sends us a message and we are the message where we are bright enough to speak in the clarity of our being and those who see us clearly ...
Poem – Cliché (By Sanjeev Sethi)
Cliché Adumbration of authenticity is credible as credo of mendacity. Praxis of pigeonholing lulls us. Nirvana isn’t in nomenclature. In eschewing tracks of tenebrousness. Gnomes of knowledge must kindle their lanterns by lynching doctrines of divisiveness ...
Poem – Consolation (By Matthew Anish)
Consolation - By Matthew Anish Flowers fade as we walk near a rapid river the powers of night envelop our consciousness Dreams are the playing cards we use to gamble with eyes filled with tears as ...
