Poem – Transactions (By Gary Beck)

Transactions   Tourists stream through Bryant Park intent on destinations cultural, culinary, diverse entertainment, mostly shopping, acquiring goods too costly at home, pursuit of a bargain once a typical quest of Americans abroad. Now prosperous foreigners rummage our land as we once rummaged theirs.   Gary Beck/Ignition Point ‘Ignition Point’ is an unpublished poetry collection that looks at some of […]

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Poem – ON PORPOISE (By Ray Gallucci)

  ON PORPOISE   Am I watching the dolphins Or are they watching me, Somersaulting on backfins, While I swim clumsily?   At the junction of our worlds Where the land meets the sea, Somewhat shallow for their twirls, I can stand awkwardly.   I’m not native to water; They’re not native to land. Still each other we ought to […]

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Poem – In Time (By Cathy Bryant)

When we touch tentatively, kiss gently, vow to understand and love better, feel so much passionate remorse that we pour it out in streams of tears and caresses, apologise for our respective actions in the fight, and put things right, the intense feeling of peace – that inner   this is right. this is the essence of life, how it […]

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Poem – 27th HIGH WAY (By Ajise Vincent)

27TH HIGH WAY   tonight, cobblestones have eaten into the earth, the potholes are gone; tender voids, noxious like hollows of black holes. the congestion twirls & begins to evaporate like smoke. automobiles compete with winds.  & the beggar who sits with a dog, sniffing goodwill & coins. looks on, wishing the road remained shapeless, tainted with contours, like the […]

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