| Cleansing | We've sorted through boxes of memories
Swept away all the dust and the ghosts
Removed the thick cobwebs constricting our minds
Expelled demons that made us their... | Maree Truelove |
| In The Belly of Slave Ships | The road
To slavery
Shall die
This
Profitable enterprise
So full of lies
Someone’s property or
Human chattel
Chained in the
Belly of slave ships,
Side-by-side
The rights of men denied
Lord, we curse the vipers,
The maggots and
The
... | Jamal Upshaw |
| The Red Barn | The stray kittens
meeting at the
Red Barn
then
rolling on balls of
green and purple yarn
pouncing on the
tapioca scent of
a catnip... | Jamal Upshaw |
| I know myself | You hit me hard
I take two steps closer.
I see your face turns pale.
You see me but you can't see the irreplaceable me.
I know you want to pull back your strength
but I doubt your skill
better you keep your chill
the next time.
Isn't it... | Reshmi Sudhakumar |
| Pyramid (Next Phase) | Pyramid.
Solid Styles Of Eternal Khefts. Study: The Darque Druid.
Rid Of All Enemii Shadow.
Widow After Widow Await N Wickedest Window.
Forgo Foolishnesses 2 Adhere 2 The Sands Of Time.
Time After Time The Spells Cast 4 The Sake Of The Darque.
... | Jerry Wayne Lawrenc… |
| It was a Quest | It was a Quest
But why he asked
He ruled the skies
Mens minds
The Cryptic Journey
The Question
When he crawled
He walked, He ran
And He marveled at the things
He had done
He questioned, He ruled
He... | Timothy Menzies |
| Phenomenal Woman | Phenomenal woman,
Indeed! The universe says you are;
Without glitz or fanfare attached
You were, born a true star.
Humility and unemblazoned poise,
Still your greatest traits;
You alone complement your truest self,
No need for affirming... | Joseph O. Edwards |
| Not Easy Is This Mistress Kept Pleased | What it is someone does,
That for many years appears to be easy.
Becomes less difficult to do.
With more time to allow,
Someone like this to confess and admit...
What it is they do done,
Anyone else can do.
If sacrificing to commit,
Being... | Lawrence S. Pertill… |
| Campus | The dead were long gone when I woke
and stood in the velvet stillness festering
under the feeble glow of a fading street lamp
amongst the drooping arms of a bottle brush
crouching low by the green scum pond
like a dog with a bone
worrying... | Sunil Rajagopal |
| Where I Cannot Go | Today my son leaves for a place,
somewhere I cannot go.
A war torn land, far overseas,
for how long, I don’t know.
And though I’ve been his biggest fan,
throughout his life, it’s true -
I now must step aside, to let him
do what he must do.
... | Leslie Kay Lanham |
| Air And Angels | Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
But since my... | John Donne |
| Domina of the Forest Green | Domina of the Forest Green
Hidden beneath a canopy of leaves
I dwell in a cave dark as death
And drink from the river of mother nature’s breast
I gather brush, branches and sage
Build a fire, and fan the flames
Bathed in moonlight and in the... | Lisa Campbell |
| Fragment. Where's The Poet? | Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.
'Tis the man who with a man
Is an equal, be he King,
Or poorest of the beggar-clan
Or any other wonderous thing
A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
'Tis the man who with a... | John Keats |
