Three Poems by George Freek
(Author's note: The below poems were inspired by early Chinese poetry)
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Lost in the Vast Cosmos (After Liu Yong)
The sickle moon is a false
smile in...
Ears to Hear – Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
While the world cries about the burgeoning ecological crisis, below is a bilingual Tanka ( Irish-English ), suggesting that ecological wisdom was there all...
Poems by E. Martin Pedersen
Allium sativum
My guts abhor you
as much as you abhor my guts
and every chance I get
I damn you
like a sadist mirror
showing the lady perfectly clothed
swearing...
Three Poems – By John Grey
When They Drop Like Flies
Dies suddenly…the phone rings…
it’s this one or that one…somebody…
the diabetic, the guy with cancer,
add them to the list of...
Poems by DS Maolalai
Toujours toujours
it's saturday afternoon,
hot on a long weekend
and here I am
walking up clanb. st,
watching
as the traffic knocks dust off the air
like...
Ekphrastic Poems – By Debasish Lahiri
Empty City
Full of my city,
I sit
empty.
If I could visit
all the places
where I had emptied myself
and rummage through
that dear rubble of hours
so many had cast...
Poems by Peycho Kanev
Dark Off
I am still in the old dingy neighborhood,
waiting for the skies to turn into cashmere.
Ice-cream trucks play baroque symphony,
and the brown kids outside...
The Sounds of Silence – By Indunil Madhusankha
I hear the erratic sounds of silence
The arcanely echoing sounds of silence
Through the esoteric whispers of silence
Over the bizarre chants of silence
The intimidating...
Eco Poetry by David Russell
Earthquake
What happened? There was a fault.
What’s a fault?
It’s when one piece of the earth juts above another.
Why does that happen?
Because the explosions down below
go...
Poems by Madison Yoest
A Question, to the Jaw Bones I Know Well
Will my wisdom teeth
fold in
on themselves,
like an incorrectly melting candle, if I admit
to feeling unwise?
Will they...
