Maureen Donatelli’s most recent poem here was An Agoraphobic’s Worry Beads. Seeds By Maureen Donatelli White seeds of sparkling frost grow in your eyes. I search them, miraculous like stars adrift, brilliant points flickering over the muted grey ebb of day; they falter on a passing opalescence of cloud as the curve toward evening whispers deeper […]
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Eat Your Heart Out Robert Frost
Doctor Watson was Mike Berger’s most recent poem to appear here. Snow still inspires. Eat Your Heart Out Robert Frost By Mike Berger Forest primeval. Drifting snow. Stopping to watch In my convertible. Burry cold, Top is down. Must move on. Hurry hurry I’ll miss. The last episode of survivor.
Roots
Brooke Elliott’s poem Malignant first appeared here in November 2010. Read this love poem today and trace the image of the lopsided heart. Roots By Brooke Elliott You carved our initials into the tree, its freshly branded surface showing green through the crevices of our letters, the injured young bark smelling of spring, new life and the […]
Reminiscence and Return
This is the first Ray Brown poem to be published at vox poetica. Ray began writing during a personal crisis in 1987 and continued sporadically while going about his day. In December 2008, his blog went live and since then Ray’s poems have been published in more than a dozen journals and he has become a popular […]
Revelations
Jeanette Gallagher’s most recent poem to appear here was In the Name of All That Is Holy, published as part of Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words. Here we get to see some of Jeanette’s sharp humor. Revelations By Jeanette Gallagher It slipped into my bedroom while I slept and into my closet where it […]
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