Poems by Stephen Kingsnorth

Meet up at the River    With Chris, by reeds, before day heat, dawn song went down to the river.   He, college man,  middle ‘Yonges’, long gone, soul and body doctor, journal only google, atrial fibrillation access, leaving own sugar needle flask once on station platform, boarding panic.   Assamese coffee shop, assumed hippy …

Low Key, Chilled Out

By Ian Copestick A foggy, freezing cold night At the start of the new year. After taking the dog out For her nightly exercise. We enter the nice, warm Heated house. Open a Couple of bottles of wine, Eat nice cheeses and Salamis with crackers. The popular, hyped days Of the season are gone. But, …

Poems by Kate LaDew

1. thessaly has no room for your bones   so we dig them up,  leaving the dirt for another grecian body it takes most of the day the little pins and screws that held you together glinting in the sun I pick up the breastbone that once held your heart turn it over and press …

The Untranslatable: Gurfa

By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem.   The waters are cool in the misting morning    I get up before the sun and roll my neck The bones …

Resisting Arrest

By Alex Andy Phuong   Uniting uniformed unity You and I defy the sky Team work and collaboration Up to personal discretion Civil Rights Civility Minorities against majorities Stick to the status quo But should we...? Really? Defy thy stars And seek new avenues Harness the power of creativity And merge sense with sensibility "Utopia" …

Poems by Dan Gallagher

The Space You Left I never knew if you mowed in a way to intimidate me Always the same Doing it backwards, so you had to stand in the flower bed With the petals like sheets twisted up and away from your figure Looking out in secret to see if I’d lost interest My low …

Poems by Nardine Sanderson

Land and sea when angels fall. ________________________________ I did not fall to call your pain, or break ones heart so soft again, I felt such love within no doubt Like heavens precious rain A magical voice I heard by ear, and eye to dwell a lonely tear, to touch the pages of your words Bought …

Poems by Paweł Markiewicz

The victory ode to the dreamy peace My poesy is for you - peace - invocation that enchanted peaceful birds at adoration. The peace as ghost needs also become a lily. My fire for the sake of the peace flies blissfully. I like valedictorians from Ivory coast, carrying a weird of peace such a druidic …

Poems by Ann Christine Tabaka

Garment of Pain   Trying to forget pain sewn into the hem of my life, with stitches  straight and precise. No scissor  can cut me free. Adamantine thread of dolor, pulled tight, knotted and  tucked deftly. Perfect garment of malaise,  worn without a thought of redemption.  Cold truth filtrates through loose woven cloth.  Frayed edges  …

Two Poems by Wayne Russell

as i close the door candlelight flickering doused by silence 20 years and you etched in the throes of a lingering memory. moments are shards of glass shattered upon the shore seagulls carry my soul back to shore basking  in the winter sun i find solace as i slowly close the door on what was …