Academy Classics: Halloween Songs

By John Page "Something at the Door" There was a lady getting ready for bed A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo  She went and bumped her head A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo  She heard a knock upon the door A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo   Then she went across the floor A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo  Then she went to open the door A-hoo a-hoo …

Poems by Mark O. Decker

Always We Want More To hear, in the winds, the sounds of riches, is to begin wanting, aching, for more wealth,  more riches; but, what are riches to a man who has everything that is important; They are nothing, mere specs of sand  in the proverbial hourglass of time; Only the fool drops his real …

Dreamt You and Other Poems by Andrew Scott

Dreamt You Dreamt you were sitting right beside me in my sleeping haze, though I am not sure if I am fully asleep or dreaming awake.   So tired my head is a jumbled mess. Maybe, I hope that you can help me to straighten out this confusion. of interchanging thoughts.   Knowing that you …

Poems by Alex Andy Phuong

Food Forward Food and Drinks give Life Donating Food is a way To Save Someone’s Life Mean Mean is not exactly angry nor rude per se But simply An average of numbers In a massive population It is nice to be important And being nice is nice, too   Original Song Original songs Are original …

The Song That Woke Me Up

By Alex Andy Phuong        For the longest time, I viewed life with an existential perspective as I previously believed that life simply has no meaning.  Lost and confused, I doubted the possibility that there is a reason for why I live.  However, the simple act of curiosity helped me experience what I …

My Tears, Dreams and Songs

By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein   Your dream resides in my tears. Your dream lives silently, Softly in solitude. Do you know that? My tears mirror you. And I only see you in my tears As a reflection. How can I feel you? Silently, he lives in my fathomless heart, As a song and sings. …

The Angelic Minnesong (Courtly Lovesong)

By Paweł Markiewicz The enchanted moon is solely for you. You are doing the sempiternity herein on earth. You guardian angel conjure dreams of me. So marvelously-propitiously your heavenly mirror shines. The courtly love to the angellet are sorceries. In your vans reveries live. I like you, the angel, drunken with a magnificence of dew, …

Poems by Marc Carver

By Marc Carver   I listened to Ottis on the radio  yelled out the song as people came past must have  thought I was some kind of lunatic but I did not care the way I have always not cared even when  I was at rock bottom some people do not get up but day …

Haiku 279-289

By Thomas Page   279 A Pavlov’s bell rings In the ears of the students Who belt out old songs.   280 People speak fondly Of ghosts who do not shine new Lights of their being   281 Fear, like an unattended Tea kettle, boils With frightening power   282 Change is a flavor Of …

A Night So Beautiful We Had To Burn Down The Senator’s House 40-42

By Darren Demaree   A NIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL WE HAD TO BURN DOWN THE SENATOR’S HOUSE #40 Ohio, do you love us? We know we do this in opposition to your leaking heart.     A NIGHT SO BEAUTIFUL WE HAD TO BURN DOWN THE SENATOR’S HOUSE #41 The landscape an hour short of dawn …