Vivacity and Other Poems

By Alex Andy Phuong Vivacity Vivacious Stupendous Spirits high Defy thy sky More than I For the lively Live freely Lift oneself Be thyself No matter what city Or residence Where one resides For the world Is the home of all Ritual Sunrise sunset Sunrise sunset Cyclical cycle Begin again And again Darkness giving way …

The Dragon

By John Page The cave shakes The dragon wakes Into the sky it flies Tomorrow someone shall die The dragon seeks it’s foe Where it is, it does not know In it’s heart is a burning need To avenge a most foul deed The sky races by as the dragon looks It will get back …

Where the Water Falls and Other Poems

By John Grey Where the Water Falls It cascades silver and foam from craggy heights down the rutted black face of sheer cliff. On contact with the river, in endless hiss, it replaces itself with more of itself. It cannot tie a shoelace, row a boat or boil a kettle. It merely does what I …

Superman Loses His Powers

By Dan French He was larger than life. Rippling biceps, which he flexed in front of us. He seemed able to lift anything, solve any task, fix any machine, take care of everything that came his way. He had it all, or seemed to. He delighted in pouring red blood from the dinner platter of …

After the Sandstorm and Other Poems

By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we …

Uriel Fox and the Doomsday Prophesy

By John F. Zurn Uriel Fox often wandered through any number of forests between his visits to civilization. An expert explorer, he might spend several weeks in areas near the highway before returning to the open road. He almost never lost his way or encountered any situation he couldn’t manage. However, once in the middle …

Ms. Violet

By Danae Younge We ran through the dark, the bottoms of our shoes sinking into the sand with every step. Terry was too excited to allow that to slow her down, though, she raced towards the moving beam of light which rotated steadily from the lighthouse like a planet on orbit, illuminating little slivers of …

World Away and Other Poems

By Allison Grayhurst World Away World away of hollows where light escapes, gets through, flourishes in the sluggish dream of humans. World of many layers – up to pure communion and down with the languishing un-animal beasts. Rivers that flow and merge, travel down. Oceans rise up, their surfaces new, surfaces discovered – air, sometimes …

Gecko

By Fred Miller What a queer little fellow you are,your head cocked in question to my presence.If toe pads I had, I'd leap to your perchto see what you world's all about.Do I hear a click, a chirp?In defiance of me, I suspect.Oh, I'd lift that tail to show who's whoif unaware of your ability …

Timely and Other Poems

By Alex Andy Phuong Timely Throughout the course of timeTimeless masterpieces continue to endureBecause of creative creationsThat suggest that hearts can be pureIf artists attempt artistryBecause even though everything has faultsIt is the treasure found deep within the soulThat can connect the heart and mindTo establish a sense of being wholeWhile acknowledging the ones who …