Upheld and Other Works

By Alex Andy Phuong Upheld Do more than uphold Have the head held up high, and Be honestly bold Angle Newfound perspective Relatively relative A new point of view The Good Choice Negative antagonists Will always go against Positive protagonists But there is no shame in being good Because sometimes good things Are truly evil …

I Wonder and Bread on Water

By Amrita Valan I Wonder If I had been a flower And you had picked the hue I wonder, if you'd let me be The brightest shade of blue? If I had been your hummingbird And you my song did choose I wonder, would you have picked a song That crooned my deepest blues? If …

Learning from Strands and An Err to Hear

By Anila Pillai Learning from Strands To be civilised costs high And to be wild adds volume and waves. To remove strangled you cannot take the whole but Bits and sections small, revoke the tangles right. Stress or stretch on any matter will lead to break, Slow and caring touch will make it look Right. …

Blue She Was and Other Prose Poems

By Ennie Moe Blue She Was She was Blue; An azure River that flowed with the terms of the wind — aimless and lost in an ocean of pitch black.She was Blue, for melancholy had marred her soul with burning bruises of pale lilac.She was Blue, and she knew not any other color to feel than the one …

Missing and Other Poems

By Andrew Scott Missing Used to see pictures of the missing, everyday, everywhere. The persons were either gone for days or for yeas on end. Makes a person think how or why they went missing. For some, when it came time, did the person become lost, disoriented due to a condition? Not knowing where they …

Fearless of Death

By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein I fear not Death. Death is the ultimate truth. Death is waiting. For the next life Where I will be judged. By the Almighty. Or there is no afterlife. But Death is the end. The curtains of the play called life Finally comes to close. Death is where are no …

Summer Contest Poetry Winner: “A Late Summer’s Billboard at Dusk” and Other Poems

By Ken Gosse A Late Summer’s Billboard at Dusk There’s promised relief dead ahead. Finally, stopping for bread! We’ll spend lots of dough, because, on the go, our car guzzles gas without lead. Another long, tiresome day. Before sunrise, we’re on our way. Each joyful summer vacation’s a bummer, but we’d rather leave home than …

The Young Soldier – Aged by War

By Felicita “Terry” Robinson Fresh out of college is someone’s son or brother Maybe a kid searching for good and encouraged by his mother Or perhaps a teacher, a dropout or a taxi driver All now standing on the threshold of war, as a survivor And faced with a mission larger than life To kill …

More Than Ever and Other Works

By Alex Andy Phuong More Than Ever Now more than ever We must all stand together For humanity Unite and Fight Unification Hope has never disappeared Do more than believe Housing Statement Housing is essential for life because people need a roof over their heads to survive. Afterall, all people are animals by default. Please …

Where Old Men Plant Trees and Likingthrope

By Tani Law Rey Where Old Men Plant Trees My foreshortened - scraped twig - twisted root - sub-prime - sub-man stick-figure arms - flail concentric - like the Dow - in rotorcraft whorls - Whirling from the black smoke - older than my forest - more of a plantation - I would take off …