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...
Three Poems by Taylor Dibbert
With Someone Else
He wanted them
To work through
Their issues together,
Have him working on him,
Have her working on her,
And have them
Working on them,
She didn't want...
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 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...
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 Isidoros Karderinis
The reader
I read with pleasure the books
That writhe at my touch
Their pages full of lines
That mirror their soul.
In them I found the golden light.
A...
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 Arjan Kallco
Universal peace
The sea lies wide
undisturbed in its own defined space
without daring to take the smallest step
as a visitor to the shore. Today
he doesn't...
Poems by Peter Magliocco
2-Faced Shooter
Learning to rhyme with the dawn of in-Hu-Man,
Tasting what revels in itself as a child watches
Me stumbling across the street, late for work,...
Two Poems by Colette RC
Patience
It’s a kind of love, is it not?
How your bottle holds the milk,
how your highchair stands upright and foursquare,
how the playmat accepts the continuous...
