Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was “A Good Summer” (June 2019). An Evening in Florence By Laura Zucca-Scott While you fight alone A tired warrior in a grey hospital room I watch the evening lights reflecting on the serene waters of the Arno River Patches of brightness against the dusk Two lovers […]
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Tribute to a Japanese Gentleman
Charlene James-Duguid’s most recent poem to appear here was “Ode to a Kohlrabi” (September 2019). Tribute to a Japanese Gentleman By Charlene James-Duguid Years past our lives met He reserved as stately oak I fluttering by No model for us No mold to harden firmly Only look by look Words unworkable Oceans streams and rivulets […]
In the Cathedral Nacional de Mexico
Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “Homage to the Mexican Muralists” (September 2019). In the Cathedral Nacional de Mexico By Max Reif I’m sitting here in a pewa little while ago, when what is probablythe largest pipe organin the world suddenly begins to blast! Now it’s stopped, just as abruptly. It’s different now.The silence […]
Because We Came From the Same Cocoon
Emmanuel Stephen Ogboh’s most recent poem to appear here was “What I Do When the Train of Thought Stops” (September 2019). Because We Came from the Same Cocoon By Emmanuel Stephen Ogboh i lost myself in the sticky drool of your glistening promises you lost yourself in the spooky chambers of my green, mazy mystique […]
Hercules
Milt Montague was born in New York in 1924 and still resides there, discovered poetry at 87 and has 200 published poems; now 95, he still writes daily. Hercules By Milt Montague Hercules the ancient Greek Superman was also a great lover memorialized to this day in the night sky garbed in the lion skin of […]
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