Monthly Archives: August 2018
Read Poem: FORWARD by Gladys Muturi
Forward Time to move forward I got to move forward No time to change the past Looking back is the thing in the past Chapter ending No open wounds Closed tight with a thousand stitches Scar is healing Vanquished from … Continue reading
Read Poetry: JUNE 26, 2015 by Felice Picano
Had he lived would we be celebrating our momentous today or simply let it go having had it, lived it for ourselves so long? Not ever requiring The officious, official authentication. Would the sidewalk revelers we do not stop to … Continue reading
Read Poem: Viola’s Rebellion by Sam Allen
Her face is white as porcelain Her lips are thin and red And as the concertina plays He tilts her fragile head The voice that he embodies Has a churlish, silly sound He helps her do a courtesy And then … Continue reading
Read Poem: The Beholder by Darienne K. E. Jordan
We are taught that Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder We always assume This means eyes Outside of our own Someone not us Is supposed to approve Using some arbitrary standard We seek validation From every passerby And … Continue reading
Poetry Festival Testimonial – August 21 2018
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Marta Knobloch (HOW TO WRITE A SUMMER POEM) I believe that poetry is a spoken as well as a written…
Poetry Festival Testimonial – August 21 2018
Marta Knobloch (HOW TO WRITE A SUMMER POEM) I believe that poetry is a spoken as well as a written art. by Val Cole
Read Poem: An Adult Fable for the Modern Day by Cindi Walton
Way up high on the seventeenth floor lived a selfish young princess dressed in Dior. “My nail is chipped and my hair is a mess.” Where is that maid, I need to get dressed!” “Bring me my dog, now take … Continue reading
Read Poem: CLOUDS by Gary Bertnick
Clouds of doubt tumble about As temptations and deception parade with false motives, Though the Surveyor’s line runs straight and true Still men rationalize Absolute Truth Women compromise what they know Even Sovereign and Holy Words written and spoken- All … Continue reading
Read Poem: A Certain Infinity In Brevit by Christopher Kenneth Hanson
You knew as I knew; The deep red balloons that blew via hazy cloud Filled skies, struck inept via our deepest lullabies You knew as I knew, of the birds which flew Throughout the aged yew trees, and stellar Abatement … Continue reading
Read Poem: PINK by H.E. Grahame
If beginnings were a color They’d be pink. Like the familiar stone-walled frame I dragged boxes and bags into. We cluttered the corners with Inside jokes and vivid tales And postered the blank walls with Memories and forget-me-nots Within the … Continue reading
