Safiya Stewart-Sagoua is a training and development professional and up-and-coming poet in the DC Metro area (Silver Spring MD). She started writing poetry at the age of nine and she has recently completed her first book, Poems of Life and Love From a Simple Black Girl, available at Amazon. When she is not writing you can […]
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The Inconsequence of Self
Bobbie Troy’s most recent poem to appear here was She: In Recovery (November 2013). The Inconsequence of Self By Bobbie Troy as my feet touch the ground every day and I look in the mirror I wonder if there really is such a thing as the inconsequence of self
Against the Odds
Jean McLeod makes the beautiful sublime. Against the Odds By Jean McLeod Life ripples with love, its corners sanded by time to a surface smooth as limpid seas. Finding love is not as easy as catching music in a net, but Hush! Love come.
Dad and the Blue House
Natalie Bosch shares a tribute poem. Dad and the Blue House By Natalie Bosch Blue quartz and granola bars A red canoe we used to have The scratched-up country CD known by heart Half-eaten packs of Lifesavers Guitar pieces and the pumpkin song Riding on the lawn mower, my very own pair of earmuffs Folding […]
Cracked
John Kaniecki’s poem Clowns appeared here in November 2013. Cracked (after Emily Dickinson) By John Kaniecki Corporations sophisticated Peddle illusions Needless intricacies debated Delighting deceitful delusions Treason, treason they scream As profits soar They will use any reason For another war Wisdom dated a fool Drunk and naked she opened her eyes After breaking the […]
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