Poems by Duane Anderson
In the Eyes of the Carpet
Day in and day out
you walk across my face,
for that is the only part of me you can see
as...
Irish Poet’s Bilingual Tribute to Ada Deer, Advocate on behalf of Native Americans
Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock's bilingual poem in Irish and English as a tribute to Native American advocate Ada Deer who died at the age...
Four Poems by Duane Anderson
Let’s Bleed
He walked into the room
and said “Let’s bleed.”
It was his time,
the right building, the right room,
right day, right time.
I took his name and...
3 Poems by George Freek
Walking Home on a Dark Night
On a dark night, the stars
offer promise,
but they’re far away, buried
in the deepness of the sky.
The moon is...
Poems by John Grey
A Rose by its name only
This is it –
a rose,
not quite pink,
not quite yellow,
but both at once,
and red and white besides.
Awed by its beauty,
sniffing...
Poems by Arvilla Fee
The Past
“Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is it water,
a slow wearing away
of a hardened stone?
Is it fire,
burning down the...
Poems by Gary Beck
Urban Sight
The creaky, old homeless woman,
ravaged by unmet demands
pulls her cart of broken dreams
as she trudges unkind streets
that do not welcome outcasts,
concrete without compassion
for...
Poems by John Grey
Among the Flowers
Here,
alight on my fingertip.
However,
fresh from its cocoon,
the black and gold butterfly
chooses the nearest flower
over the poet,
though a wing almost touches
as it...
Poems by Galen Cunningham
Leveled, Beveled, the Lover
The people I love absolutely love to bevel my love.
The people I cannot help but love make me question
everything called love,...
Poems by John Grey
The Living and the Dead
It is a river that bears
drowning victims
as well as the souls
of Algonquin ancestors,
and its current
is endless liquid...
