Poems by Holly Day

  There is nothing more glorious than spring. Outside my window, the ledge around the bird feeder is full of sparrows and juncos and fat,...

Two Poems By Cameron Morse

    Two Cashews Impossible not to look around and fall in love with, this life extends daily its bouquet of leafless branches. On the last day in April,...

Poems by Arvilla Fee

    Redial I’m sorry, the life you have dialed is unavailable. Please hang up and try your call again later. I sigh and go back to laundry, dirty diapers, a...

Poems by George Freek

    I Think of the Past The night is clear as glass. I observe a new moon while it’s still there. Wind rustles dead leaves in snow-covered grass. I think of...

Poems by Colin Ian Jeffery

  Russia’s war invading Ukraine (March 2022) Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror Oppressing own people, greedy...

Poems by Holly Day

    The Ride I still wave at trains as they rumble by, in lieu of being on board myself, imagine all of the places the passengers must be...

Poems by Charlie Brice

  The Future Past We strolled along a clay path in Frick Park where leaves fell like heroes’ confetti and where our past rambled toward us from...

Poems By David Lohrey

    One of Twelve Steps “I thought we were going out for dinner. I’ve been waiting.” “You’re drunk. I can’t go out with you now.” She could barely...

Poems by Drew Hansen

    midnight brain My brain behaves a bit differently as I lay it down to rest. Ideas hatch, grow wings and mature into challenges. Limitations—they melt and lose...

Three Poems by George Freek

  (Author's note: The below poems were inspired by early Chinese poetry) * Lost in the Vast Cosmos (After Liu Yong) The sickle moon is a false smile in...

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