Mirza Ahsanul Hossain lives and writes in Bangladesh. Home is far away By Mirza Ahsanul Hossain I went homeBut came backHopingBiding timeThinking you wouldLet me inBut there was no answerWhen I knockedThis is not what I wantedI wanted YouWhere were you?Why didn’t you answer?Was it becauseYou knew it was me?
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The Clouds
Danica Green lives in England. Cloud watching inspires all kinds of writing. Have you ever written a poem about something you saw in the clouds? The Clouds By Danica Green The clouds peel away as I watch,Layers that open to expose blue souls,The large chasing the small and merging Themselves as one. A community that lives […]
Storm Over North Africa
JB Hogan was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for his story “Kerosene Heat.” His dystopian novel New Columbia was published in Aphelion and his prize-winning e-book Near Love Stories is online at Cervena Barva Press. His stories and poems appear in journals such as Cynic Online Magazine, Istanbul Literary Review, Every Day Poets, Ranfurly Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern […]
Love in Bohemia
Ben Nardolilli’s most recent poem to appear here was Supernatural As (November 2011). Love in Bohemia By Ben Nardolilli I’ve given youAll the darkness I have,Now I’m empty for real,Give me some of your light,It must be there,I followed you all these daysAnd miles, hoping for a spark,We managed fires without them,But I’m tired of rubbing sticks,I […]
Yellowed Jar
Marcus Closen is a poet from Winnipeg (in Canada) where he studies English literature and film studies at the University of Manitoba. Follow him on twitter @marcusmicropoem. Yellowed Jar By Marcus Closen You showed me a shelf of wondersin your study.Jars you had cleaned andfilled with interesting thingsa pig kidneya sparrow brainI laughed–what else can […]
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