Cat on a Mat and Other Poems

By Ken Gosse Cat on a Mat Have you ever had that kind of a cat who leaves a dead bird on your welcome mat and sometimes, perhaps, a nasty dead rat? He’s trying to tell you, wherever you’re at, “I love you, and though I may be a bit fat, I hope you love …

The Shooting Star and Other Poems

By Muskan Kaur The Shooting Star Once upon a time afar In the twinkle family of stars The fixed and fire chose to rebel Afraid and tired of burning within I sought to seek the distant planet Blue and green; land and oceanic Unimpressed by how my light The way they say could breach through …

chocolate milk and Other Poems

By Camille Castro chocolate milk grabbing my giraffe themed backpack i headed out the door before giving Moma a kiss grasping the edge of my school tag it was time for me to board the bus ‘don’t forget your chocolate milk, Mille!’ Moma exclaimed and rushed to give it to me i hurriedly stuffed the …

Perspectives

By Lynn Hughes She says she misses it, sitting on the back porch, Husking corn, plucking peas from their pods, I knew she snuck into the garden To pick the baby carrots and eat the tender beans. She reminisces about the posthole digger and the sawbuck for peeling logs. She longs for the horses and …

Petticoat in Mafeking and Other Poems

By Julia Vaughan Petticoat in Mafeking Fourteenth of October, Eighteen Ninety Nine Ada wrote to her sister, Emily The great Siege of Mafeking had begun Four children, under twelve, to keep safely Fifty-seven letters detail the horror Dug outs under wagons, surrounded by Sandbags, the new, safe-home in a hollow Ninety-six pound shells, dynamite craters …

Tears and Fears

By Mike Neville You can sit all alone and shed many tears… Sit in the dark and have some fears… Life isn’t always what it seems to be… It’s not always pain, rain, and misery… Sunshine of the day is meant for you… Darkness isn’t what it seems to be… Sunshine, blue skies brings out …

Next and Other Poems

By Maria A. Arana Next Life is about changes Work is one place this is felt Either you get better and move up Or you are decimated and move out could be better things could be things look down and the pit keeps deepening and widening until the rain comes and drowns you out things …

White Fairy Lights Brighten the Trails

By Carmen F Micsa Life can be a fairy-tale Photo by CARMEN F MICSA, Salmon Falls Trails, CA  White fairy lanterns — orbits of light cascade down winter’s raw and reddish earth on an early spring day. Wide-opened cups of joy —  nature’s nod to winter’s sorrows melted away as quickly as chirping sparrows. Serene snow globes, the delicate white …

Treasure and Other Poems

By Eric Nicholson Treasure Sometimes there's treasure to keep but you have to dive deep. There's nothing to lose except the mask they gave you. Retreat to find your own Seat. Today you can choose your own journey and track where the lines in your mask crack. Today you can stand on the brink - …

Two Lifelines

By David R. Topper a line a Euclidean line infinite in length timeless mid-month, a birth, our first grandchild a girl the dawn of fresh joy the trajectory of a new life a lifeline: starting at zero finite in length & time a few days later, a diagnosis early stage of dementia my wife the …