A recent Best of the Net nominee, 7-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had poetry appear in dozens of publications and anthologies. She has 6 books to her credit, including her new chapbook,The Urn, from Finishing Line Press. She has 2 forthcoming titles: The Ice Decides: Poems of Antarctica(Finishing Line Press) […]
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Identity Crisis
Debbie Feller is a former mail lady turned full-time caregiver who blogs daily and has poetry published at Referential Magazine and Unfold. Identity Crisis By Debbie Feller Cut with a child’s purple scissorsin an attempt to keepour identities safe a hundred tiny squares of paperblow across the lawnsdropped, spilled, torn as messy as real lifepicked up carefullywith hands, rake and […]
An Addict’s Poem
Grace Ames is a freelance writer and poet from Charleston SC. She is currently writing her first novel. An Addict’s Poem By Grace Ames I have never been punished with an addictionuntil I found that one thingI couldn’t let go of … I would think about dream aboutpray for Feel it in my handsagainst my skinmy […]
Winter
Bette Hileman’s most recent poem to appear here was Peaceable Kingdom (November 2011). Winter By Bette Hileman I know winter is comingwhen the cat’s long furfeels warm underneath and cool on top.I know winter is closewhen my feet are cold.I know winter is approachingby ringing in my earsthat sounds like distant cicadasthough none are singing.I know winter […]
Home is far away
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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