James Piatt’s most recent poem to appear here was “Night Frogs II” (March 2017) The Message of Water By James G. Piatt Awakening to the morning sun glancing off a tranquil pond, I see a softly meandering brook, blue with moisture formed. As I amble down an old deer trail beside the brook covered with glistening […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Must Return, Heart Sick
Charlene James-Duguid’s most recent poem to appear here was “April’s Fool” (April 2017) Must return, Heart sick Poet, to days begun with Words, life’s salvation
A Poet’s Apology to Words
Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “To My Breakfast: An Ode to the Sense of Taste” (March 2017) A Poet’s Apology to Words By Max Reif Words, you were empty vessels grazing on hillsides, transparent to the sun. I conscripted you and sentenced you to forced marches into no-man’s lands that I called […]
Poet/Tree
Thomas Locicero lives and writes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Poet/Tree By Thomas Locicero When I was young enough to climb And first enamored with the rhyme, I’d clamber up my willow tree To be alone with poetry, At times atone, at times despair, And other times to disappear. So many opportunities To live whatever words […]
A Writer
Michael Copeland’s most recent poem to appear here was “Her Love” (December 2016) A Writer By Michael Copeland You have the right to be forgotten in the scheme of life’s great plan, with a shadowy sense of misplaced drama. There breathes from the writer’s mind a natural, healthy, elevated spirit that trails to oblivion upon passing. […]
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