Poetry

Poem – An Act of the Will (By Donal Mahoney)

An Act of the Will If love’s real, not  the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving whether one feels like it or not. After many years   you don’t know why you’re doing it  or why It ...

Poem – LOST IN TRANSLATION (By Ray Gallucci)

LOST IN TRANSLATION (based on “The Hidden History of Jesus and the Holy Grail” by Sir Laurence Gardner, Nexus Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, February-March 1998) If records of the Celtic Church From A.D. 37 stretch? How could they then ...

Poem – A Voice Says Cry (By Nosakhare Collins)

A voice says ‘cry’ A voce says ‘cry’ And I said, what shall I cry? All flash is grass, For all the beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of ...

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 – light in darkness (By Nicolo Santilli)

Light In Darkness - By Nicolo Santilli   the eyes must grow used to the light of darkness   to discover its resplendent depths   to suffer with a twinkle in the eye   that does not dismiss suffering   ...

Poem – Cover To Cover (By Gil Hoy)

■ Cover to Cover - By Gil Hoy I’ve loved to read, listen to the melodious flow and tempo of another man’s written words and sentences through my eyes but in my brain, for as long as I can remember ...

Poem – My Heart In A Cave (By Melissa R. Mendelson)

My Heart In A Cave by, Melissa R. Mendelson A long time ago, I had a dream that I hid my heart deep inside a cave. Why I did this? I don’t know, but now I was stumbling through the ...

Poem – AFTER PARTY (By John Biscello)

AFTER PARTY (By John Biscello) She, Lazarus, back from the dead, with a musical vengeance— A beat, Christ, please, she asks of her martyred D.J., half-light, half-man, and out climbs her voice, grinding through rubble, a dark velvet toy wound ...

Poem – A Puzzling Marriage (By Donal Mahoney)

■ A Puzzling Marriage   Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people.   All day long they hide their differences to make their marriage last but every night after supper they let them out silently.   Fred in his recliner works  a ...

Poem – Corpus Christi (By Milenko Zupanovic)

CORPUS CHRISTI Author: Milenko Zupanovic Ostensorium in a procession of almost the entire city, it leads to the statue of the saint on the hill, relics returned to the church a stranger, only in a white slept next to the ...