“Rome” – Poems by Marina Kazakova
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Are we, or are we not?
Are we, or are we not
alone?
How can you hide from what is always in you?
How can the rain...
Poems by Sarah Dickenson Snyder
The Rwanda Discovery Hostel
Under a roofed deck
a television screens
an endless loop
of wildlife videos—
a lion skulking long grasses
leaps into the air,
returning to the earth,...
Poems by Thomas Piekarski
Trying Times
There are times that our reading
the likes of Lucretius
slips out of fashion
and frankly can take a hike.
There are times a transfusion
of...
Poems by Prathap Kamath
Burnt down forest
It is bad when about sixteen years of life
lie like a patch of burnt down forest –
black, charcoaled, ash-bordered,
...
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 Gary Beck
Fleeting
Summer ended,
the last butterfly
does not migrate,
lands on sheltered tree,
expires, a brief life
without knowledge
of good or evil,
only touching
those who noticed.
In My Lifetime
When I was young
I...
Mrs. Podolski – Two Poems by Robert Wexelblatt
These are the latest in a series of poems about a tough, and smart, sometimes acerbic old lady, Mrs. Podolski, all monologues addressed to...
Poems by Yakir Ben-Moshe
Translated from the Hebrew by Dan Alter
Oh Yakir
In the passed-out light of night
when body
melts into flesh
letters break out of us
& gaps are fired into...
Three Poems : By Michael G. Smith
How To Approach a Tree
As if it were the sole
being in a sea of hot sand,
its furrowed bark an open
gate to the pure land
you...
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...
