G David Schwartz’s most recent poem to appear here was “Wednesday Did Come Again” (October 2012) This Is Just How It Should Be By G David Schwartz This is just how it should be This is how it ought If’n it should be different Well, I must-a forgot
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Dreamtime
Dreamtime By Brigitte Grimm Deep sundown. Moon and stars, white shadows in nocturnal sky. Breathe the silence outside. Come sit on the cold cement steps. No need to close your eyes to find darkness; it surrounds. Darkness breeds mirrors. In the stillness and the quiet self cannot be denied. You alone with you content in […]
Old Friends
Hadley Hury’s most recent poem to appear here was “Tenth Anniversary Poem, For A Writer’s Wife” (December 2009) Old Friends By Hadley Hury Sometimes after getting together for dinner Or sometimes for no reason after a long passage of time While pulling clothes from the dryer Or waiting at a red light Or brushing my […]
Belfast
John McKenna’s most recent poem to appear here was “An Account of the first of Summer’s Muse: releasing the spell of the secular she that came before her” (May 2016) Belfast By John McKenna I. “Do you remember quick sunny summer Belfast, johnny?” “Now, do you?” I remember racing metal bike peddles like mad when 6 […]
Glorious Ocean
Glorious Ocean By Matthew Hammerton In you, I see the symbols of life and death, of reality and unreality: Primordial life-giving waters Dark depths of shadow and obscurity Endless plains of shifting blue The vigour of youth and the slow, tired, knowing glance of one who has lived through all ages and epochs In your […]
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