2024-02-11 16:44
By: Douglas Cole
Building a House on the RiverChasing the MuseMechanicGrandpa with the SpiderWild to be Wreckage Forever
Building a House on the River
It’s amazing he thou… Read More
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2024-02-11 12:25
By: Audrey Lauryn
Clara:
Lifeless entities mill around Callum Square. A group of initiates drape crimson fabric from various light posts. Others sweep the pristine cobblestone streets… Read More
2024-02-11 12:20
By: James Aitchison
In every soul, there is a quiet core.It is immune to fear, hunger,strife and conflict, and theimpermanence of life cannotpenetrate it unless permitted.The essence… Read More
2024-02-10 16:32
By Christopher Johnson
In 1909, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung had a dream that was destined to become famous. The dream came upon him while he was traveling with Sigmund Freud to d… Read More
2024-02-10 16:26
By: Don
I ran into Chicago Union Station about 10 minutes before my train was set to depart for St. Louis. I’d overslept. Two months into retirement, I still hadn&rs&hell…Read More
2024-02-10 16:22
By: Jacob Keating
In the emails I’ve sent to publishers, I’ve said it’s about ‘inner-vastness’ and ‘roads left un-walked’ and a twenty-someth… Read More
2024-02-10 16:17
By: Flora Jardine
It’s a common fairy-tale theme — imprisonment in a tower — and a common true-life tale of city life today, a dark one and Tom was living it, although h… Read More
2024-02-07 06:02
By: Elaine Lennon
Leonard Higgins was an honest man. Modest, middle-aged, unassuming, non-descript. A quiet kind of a man. A man who operated at a very low velocity. The kind of man y… Read More
2024-02-05 12:01
By Dawn DeBraal
Kennedy Hyde sat across the table from her boyfriend, Sam Colbert. They’d been dating for eight months, and things were going well.
“So ne… Read More
2024-02-04 17:16
By: Bruce Levine
Dear Reader,I believe that all life should be lived between forty and sixty. Of course I don’t mean that the human life span should be between forty and sixty, heav… Read More
2024-02-04 17:10
By: Tom Ball
I say, I have a myriad of difficulties in my life. My true love has affairs with androids. And I was redundant as an architect. An android h… Read More
2024-02-04 17:04
By: D A Angelo
Merriment Notes on September Signs of a good day Mussels Self portrait as a snail
Merriment
Sometimes it’s good to walk in the country… Read More
2024-02-04 17:00
By: Karen O’Leary
A doesamples lichendraped bark of an ash tree.She leaps into inner safety.Weeds spilloverthe wooden stairs,not seeing human spoilsin years. A lazy stream with… Read More
2024-02-04 16:57
By: Jim Bates
Northwoods lake countryWater glistening waves lappingHot sun scorching sandOn the beach playing.
Big brother in charge of younger siblingsMomentarily distracted by bu… Read More
2024-02-04 16:53
By: David Patten
Daybreak, water the color of slate. A lone figure stands in contemplation, close enough to the river that its current splashes over her boots. This stretc… Read More
2024-02-04 16:32
By Jacob Austin
Danny hadn’t visited his father in almost two years, but not by choice. He had moved several states over to take a job with a residential development company, and hi… Read More
2024-02-01 17:41
By Rich Elliott
I, Brother Nicholas, your most humble servant, submit this narrative on Holy Thursday, in the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and thirty-two, at the request of Abbot… Read More
2024-02-01 17:33
By: Richard LeDue
The State of the World From the First FloorOld SitcomsBarely Enough to Fill an EnvelopeShitty daysAn Empty Glass Kind of Existence
The State of the World From the Fir… Read More
2024-02-01 17:27
By Nolo Segundo
You always have to choose,on or the other–one will deceive you everydamn day, because ego isa trickster,a liar,a cheater,telling you how great you are,how smart… Read More
2024-02-01 17:21
By William T. Hathaway
Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,loving the other without understanding the other,groping in darkness to find the other,blundering towards and beyond th… Read More
2024-02-01 17:14
By: Ramlal Agarwal
Published in 1896, Hardy’s Jude the Obscure was attacked for its sexual frankness, its morbidity, and its immorality. It was rejected by the lending librarie… Read More
2024-01-31 13:04
By John RC Potter
The man under the mask…
You rode along the dusty western street,as you strode hard across my laptop screen,strutting and preening like a proud peacock;dark, my… Read More
2024-01-31 11:47
By: Daniel de Culla
IN MIAMI AS IN BERLINIT’S HEARD THE SKY RESONATEPHENOMENAPoor Pigeon
IN MIAMI AS IN BERLIN
In Miami, as in Berlin, people dress upTo attend charity eventsW… Read More
2024-01-31 11:38
By: Darren Lynch
A WayA Ballad In DayfallThe Green SettlementThe FirstFissure
A Way
Sit to the voice ,Silent gaze
The hauling land of houndsProwling entranceRepetition , Repetiti… Read More
2024-01-25 16:57
By: Bruce Levine
As Hurricane Irma approached, our dog, Daisy, and I sat on the porch of our apartment waiting and watching as the wind increased. The original forecast had been a… Read More
2024-01-25 16:50
By: Bruce Levine
Floating hours and picturesque moments Peppering the days with sights and soundsPhotographic mem’ries etched on a canvassOf love laced forever through eyelets of go… Read More
2024-01-25 16:44
By Ujjal Mandal
Glorification of YouBe the Heart Heavy with Emotions!LOVE, My Muse!Philosophy of Love & Life
Glorification of You
When I close my weary eyes,you come putting an… Read More
2024-01-25 16:34
By: Dan Fraleigh
StandSeven SistersQuiet
Stand
Seven Sisters
Quiet Read More
2024-01-25 16:25
By: Dee Artea
Waking up with a screeching headache, a fragment of recent memory that’s a mystery, and a blazing sun burning right through me. What’s this large rock beside… Read More
2024-01-25 16:18
By: Junhyeok Jang
I halfheartedly nodded yet again, pretending I was interested. I began counting the number of diced carrots on my spoon, trying to find something more entertaining t… Read More
2024-01-24 05:35
By: Jinmo Koo
It was a typical Monday afternoon and I was at the golf course with 3 of my friends. That day, we were unsure whether or not to play as we thought it would rain. We deci… Read More
2024-01-24 05:30
By: Anna Knowles
I thought I could wash you away,when I twisted the sink’s knob,and the faucet began sobbing into a porcelain bowl;so I plunged my hands under the water andscrub… Read More
2024-01-22 16:40
By: Soobin Ryu
The prose “From a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by Jame Joyce is about the protagonist Stephen Daedalus imagining a visit to the city, where his state… Read More
2024-01-22 16:28
By Thomas Sanfilip
I have no doubt the modernist painter Robert Delaunay understood the problem of Paris, both as a physical and spiritual entity as well as artistic force capable of… Read More
2024-01-22 15:37
By: Carl Papa Palmer
You’d think he’d have learned by now to take a momentbefore blindly grabbing us from his night stand drawer.
If he would keep us in another roomwhe… Read More
2024-01-22 15:24
By: Harrison Abbott
They say it will rain today.
You wake up before the alarm clock. The GP opens at nine and you wake up shortly after seven.
When you open the curtain, a sheen… Read More
2024-01-22 15:19
By: James Aitchison
The placid day belies its chaos:a giant web of conflicted men.Only the eternal realityremains absolute: men dwellon an earthly plane,through a series of lives,one… Read More
2024-01-17 16:47
By: Ryan Quinn Flanagan
The Irish House Painter (for Brendan Behan)Sky Water GravyThe Slippery Palace Floor is All Tadpoles18 Butterballs, Turkey in the OverallsScratch
The Irish House… Read More
2024-01-17 16:38
By: John Caulton
‘Driving up the country lanes
The knackermen, we’re here again
A farmer’s gate, lift the latch
Dispatch, collect another batch’
T… Read More
2024-01-15 17:04
By: Pramod Rastogi
When I am not with You
My love, when I am not with you,Never too far from me are you.If I were a leaf of yellow hue,A shade of lush green would be youBased on th… Read More
2024-01-15 16:57
By: Charles Wiegand
Eliana’s passion is baking. All kinds of baking—bread, candy, cakes, pastries, and pies. She loves baking so much she has three ovens in her kitchen. S… Read More
2024-01-15 16:53
By: Edward Lees
A Painting of SortsLightPithA TreeDriftingOur Memoir
A Painting of Sorts
Rippled manganeseLike a path to the horizonParaiba tourmalineDeepening to sapphireSuch sligh… Read More
2023-12-31 13:29
By Tabussum Sumaiya
An intimidated girl once became a WolfLosin’ her soul into oblivious damnationIndiscreetly the ferocious pursuing the moonForgetting the shine might be a decepti… Read More
2023-12-31 13:20
By Henry Simpson
Mike realized he’d skipped lunch, ordered a gin and tonic from the flight attendant, and tried to relax. He deserved a reward for at last escaping Reno. The cocktai… Read More
2023-12-30 13:52
By: Carl Papa Palmer
The old crabapple treeadorned spectacular withwhite blossoms last Mayby the main entranceof Sacred Heart Chapelnow a barren trunkof splayed gray brancheseach twin… Read More
2023-12-30 13:41
By Bruce Levine
February daysEnd of winter comes closer Spring equinox nears
Making year’s resolveJoyous days tobogganingLife’s journey renewed
Harvest days are goneFire… Read More
2023-12-18 17:02
By John RC Potter
The legend goes there was a prophet or perhaps a pilgrim,who wandered the biblical lands many moons ago;he predicted what had happened after the flood.A soothsayer o… Read More
2023-12-18 16:58
By: Brian Michael Barbeito
I go through from inside to the outside deck via the automatic doors of an impossibly large ship. Just beyond handsome wooden slats biege that meet white p… Read More
2023-12-18 16:53
By: James Aitchison
Having silence in your mindgains you eternal wisdom.See in your soul the lifeyou have constructed.See it with your eternal eye.Sufficiently awakened,you can see al… Read More
2023-12-18 16:49
By: JL Maikaho
Seed
It is rainingSpring brings lifeTo the whole worldWhy am I dying?
Bird of Dawn
Breaking with first lightI sing you back to earthWhate’er dreams you dr… Read More
2023-12-18 16:45
By: Jeremiah Ogundele
LITTLE DROPS OF SERENITY
I hear the raindrops tapping lightly on the roof,A symphony of sound aloof,Slowly, rhythmically breathe it in,My thoughts in tu… Read More
2023-12-18 16:39
By: K. A. Williams
Look Underneath The CarpetRestaurant BluesPretty Is As Pretty Does
Look Underneath The Carpet
What would I findif I ripped up the carpetand looked underneath?Some… Read More
2023-12-18 16:34
By: Karen O’Leary
where is love… when you cut paper dolls into his & hers
where is love… when the joker is wild, leaving broken china cups… Read More
2023-12-18 16:29
By: Bruce Levine
Riverbeds aliveBrook-fed streams to rivers flow Pathways to the sea
Parodies begin A sense of humor required Nothing safe for laughs
Floating in the air Seagull… Read More
2023-12-18 16:19
By: p. horvath
“will they return to me?”“yes” spoke the universe
“how much longer?”“do they not hurt as i do?”
“i am afraid… Read More
2023-12-18 16:16
By: Tom Ball
I still remember my first love well. It ended when she said if I didn’t promise to love her forever, she would jump off the tower. I walked away an… Read More
2023-12-13 13:05
By: Bruce Levine
A phoenix rises
From the ashes of failure
Facing a new day Read More
2023-12-13 13:01
By: Mariam Shengelia
It has been nearly nine months since the fetus has been indulging in its carefree life in its mother’s womb. Being in a symbiotic relationship with its moth… Read More
2023-12-13 12:51
By: Shamik Banerjee
If We Meet AgainA Lesson From Zaheer, Our FishmongerMy Uncle’s DeskAssuaging My Lover’s TraumaTemple DaysUnpardonableThe Pebble’s Testimony
If We… Read More
2023-12-13 12:36
By: James Aitchison
Is it really a right-handed world? Are left-handed people forever to be judged as second-class citizens?
The Latin word for left is sinister. T… Read More
2023-12-12 17:36
By: Harrison Abbott
Apparently my uncle had had another of his suicidal drinking bouts and he needed help sobering up. I drove over to his house. And found him walking along the road, rag… Read More
2023-12-12 17:27
By: Carl Papa Palmer
Ollie OllieMommy’s DanceMass Magician
Ollie Ollie
Giggling, she runs from the family room couchwhere I sit and count, both hands over my eyes.“1,2,3… Read More
2023-12-12 17:20
By William T. Hathaway
Now is the season when priests proclaim, “Peace on earth, goodwill towards men” and mainstream media soothe us with stories and images of kindness.
B… Read More
2023-11-29 16:42
By: Linda Barrett
I.
“Dudley’s Stella. I know what you’re talking about,” The e-mail read.
Mirabella Reid gazed at it, sitting back in her office chair. Only… Read More
2023-11-29 16:35
By: K.E. Semmel
Twenty years ago, during my aborted attempt to get an MFA in creative writing, I submitted a story for a workshop. It was about a middle-aged man who witnesses t… Read More
2023-11-29 13:10
By Michael Lee Johnson
Ghost I Am
Here is a private hut staring at me, twigs & branches over the top— naked & alone.
I respond to an old 60s doo-wopsong: &hell…Read More
2023-11-23 16:54
By: Suchoon Mo
so long agoin that small townso far awaya young man was playing a violinaloneSarasate’s Gypsy AirZegeunerweisenin that small house
so long agoa raging civil wa… Read More
2023-11-23 16:47
By: Carl Papa Palmer
The ringing interrupts watching the football game.Both phone and remote sit on the couch beside me,I grab one blindly, hit a button and my TV turns off.
Findin… Read More
2023-11-20 11:05
By: Ann Christine Tabaka
Empty NightsTimeHopeInnocenceEmptyAbout the poet
Empty Nights
whispers in the darkall that is left of our lovereaching out for youyou are no longer th… Read More
2023-11-20 10:57
By Domonique
Onefirst night in Europe. kind Bordeaux breezea vista of the city . .feet firmly planted feeling like stonesTears fell from my eyes and down my cheeksbut there was no cathart… Read More
2023-11-17 13:56
By: Pawel Markiewicz
Like sparkles of dreamery – fantasy,born from hundreds thoughts and from memories,you compass the world of mythology.Here and there plenty of effusions… Read More
2023-11-17 13:50
By: James Aitchison
You were bornas a shellcontaining youreternal self.By stripping awaythe debris thus far gatheredin your journey,you will be released fromearthly bondsand be reborn… Read More
2023-11-06 12:18
By: Ramlal Agarwal
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been highly regarded by the Western literary world. However, she has been severely criticized and badly neglected by the Indian literati… Read More
2023-11-06 09:41
By: Aaron Moon
Throughout the many years photography has evolved, with many new techniques and tools used to take photographs, photographers all share one goal. The use of photography is… Read More
2023-10-28 17:54
By John Paul Lama
A life for a life.
Rex Solomon Alacran and Alicia Sylvia Pastoral Alacran were twenty-eight year old newlyweds. But love was not why they were driving to Rex’s… Read More
2023-10-24 16:44
By: James Aitchison
Man, look into yourselffor your answers and thesoft words of your soul.Can you have a morewonderful companion?Eternity has set downthe blows you will face,the weat… Read More
2023-10-24 15:24
By: Jim Bates
His father loved sports cars driving fastIn the end he had a white Porsche spiderLike James Dean was driving when he diedHis dad liked to take his son up into the mounta… Read More
2023-10-24 04:50
By: Soo Yeon (Stephanie) Suh
Social media, the forbidden fruit that corrupts people? Social media refers to an open online platform that shares personal thoughts, opinions, experience… Read More
2023-10-23 12:39
By: Claudia Wysocky
Stargazing LoveGolden Sunrise, Dark MemoriesHappiness on Our HorizonThe lost little boy
Stargazing Love
Love is a fissure in the universe;It eats at the fabr… Read More
2023-10-23 12:31
By: Jeff Lewis
The Last Sparrow
As days become shorterand shadows grow long,the verdant tone of Summeryields to the palette of Fall.A sparrow appears on the grassdampened by frost… Read More
2023-10-23 12:24
By John RC Potter
SchadenfreudeSometimesSundayPazar Günü
Schadenfreude
By John RC PotterDefinition: “Finding joy in someone’s misfortune”
This is a Ge… Read More
2023-10-19 16:56
By: Alobu Emmanuel
At The Mention Of HopeIllusionWhat Are You Angry At?
At The Mention Of Hope
Life,a pot ofmashed beans,needs a steady fireto keep it warm. i am tired.why has a lif… Read More
2023-10-19 16:45
By: Karen O’Leary
a year trappedin a healthcaresystem—a moneygrabbing empire
where patientsmake appointmentsfor consults theydon’t qualify for???
hope dashedwe… Read More
2023-10-18 16:06
By: Judith Ferster
Mr. Mendenhall’s QuestionMourning75+
Mr. Mendenhall’s Question
On the train from New Haven to Northampton,
my high school friend met the president… Read More
2023-10-18 05:42
By William T. Hathaway
The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The… Read More
2023-10-17 04:08
By: Stephen Grant
COLORS OF THE SKY
Let’s look at the sky, its corners and depth, upside downand sideways. Then let’s describe its colour. Blue seemstoo obvious and doe… Read More
2023-10-16 11:55
By: Carl Papa Palmer
not a text, instant message,face book postor forwarded email
an actual letterin a stamped envelopeaddressed to medelivered by my mailmanopened immediately
y… Read More
2023-10-13 15:09
By: Don Tassone
Bill Frazier was always drawn to news. By the time he was eight, he was reading his parents’ newspaper, the World-Herald, all the way through. It was… Read More
2023-10-13 15:04
By Karen Lee Stradford
Guest of Honor
We hasten to the lobby,Coats hang on armswaiting to get checked in.A hostess directs us to the ballroom,large purple and goldlatex balloons sw… Read More
2023-10-13 14:53
By: Pardee Lowe, Jr.
DA CAPOPoetry in MotionAffirmation Before the MirrorI’m Just Me
DA CAPO
When I was youngAnd poems were strangeI ventured to inquireHow, poet, do words upo… Read More
2023-10-12 17:16
By: Daniel de Culla
Isabel G. de Diego’ Photo
DESCENT TO THE BEACH
Children are already going down to the beachEarthy sand next to the Cantabrian sea.They proclaim joy in thei… Read More
2023-10-12 05:04
By: Bruce Levine
Cool crisp autumn airInvigorating the soulNature’s golden days
Glories yet unknownHidden in happy momentsFall retains its joy
Cooler days surroundNow empt… Read More
2023-10-09 07:52
By: Ray Whitaker
A TIMEPIECEKARENAFTERWARDSBEAUTIFUL GIRL [for my grand-daughters]
A TIMEPIECE
I ask myself-it is a question thatI wake up with
if we all go together,and the past… Read More
2023-10-09 07:05
By: Anthony David Vernon
Lost Count In Tulsa
What’s the amount?There are plenty of waysTo count and count…& 3$ LaysI was running some numbers at the 7-11Thought I… Read More
2023-10-07 16:03
By Mary Bone
Haunted LoveLighthouse by the SeaMint Julip Tea
Haunted Love
Our eyes met across a crowded room.You had smoky azure tints with a gleam,reminding me of a blustery sk… Read More
2023-10-07 04:07
By: Lorraine Caputo
NEW YEAR DELAYEDDREAMING WITH HORMIGAS VOLADORESCOUNTING THE WORLD
NEW YEAR DELAYED
After yet-another-all-day rain, the Old Man Years cannot be set aflame. They… Read More
2023-10-04 17:02
By: Kindaka Jamal Sanders
To Grieve and to LoveTHE POWER OF BEING TWOTOP OF THE LOVE CHAINI HAVE BECOME LOVEBegoniasPussyBLACK MADONNAMERMAID MARMALADE
To Grieve and to Love
To… Read More
2023-10-03 05:06
By: Brian Michael Barbeito
Cabbie
He drives through the highways and the inner roads. He is older now, and lived in Michigan. In fact, Michigan must have been his hey day, sp… Read More
2023-10-03 05:02
By Vanaja Malathy
The enchanting Denver city in the US that I have come to stay in, has beautiful parks. In spring and summer, it’s a treat to walk in these parks. My daily routine… Read More
2023-10-02 16:48
By: Jim Bates
Orange maple leaves glowFloat down beneath a blue skyLike flaming feathers.***Burgandy sumacFiery in day’s last lightWarming to the soul.
***
Rolling Bluff… Read More
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