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
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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
2023-10-02 16:42
By: Brian Michael Barbeito
Songs of Love and Mourning, 4:07 on the Clock, Kaleidoscope Travel Observations
Princess America and the Desert Wind
The bus goes through the… Read More
2023-10-02 16:29
By: Bruce Levine
The lethargy of summer lessensAs fall breezes begin to arriveSubtle changesMarking off days on the calendarYet roses bloom and trees stay greenA lovely timeFilled wit… Read More
2023-09-26 16:08
By: John Grey
AT BLAKE’S FUNERALTOUGH MAMASTUCK IN MUDMY SATURDAY NIGHT FEVERRECEDINGSALMON ON A FISH WHEEL
AT BLAKE’S FUNERAL
We were wrongto think that we werefull of… Read More
2023-09-26 05:22
By: Ray Whitaker
REDISCOVERING LOST WORLDSOLETHE EMIR OF APPLESBURNING BUSH
REDISCOVERING LOST WORLDS
A waterfall plunges hundreds of feetdown into a chasmonly flown into by humming… Read More
2023-09-25 15:46
By: KJ Hannah Greenberg
Zindzi peeled, washed, and then diced four onions. She added them to a pan. Thereafter, she washed and diced three tomatoes and added those vegetables, too. As… Read More
2023-09-22 13:52
By: Brenton Booth
Ignis FatuusThe Time of Their LivesThe Beautiful PeopleLast ChanceSouth of Heaven
Ignis Fatuus
What a special periodit was. Living in aminiscule apartmentin the re… Read More
2023-09-17 11:20
By: Ramlal Agarwal
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh takes its readers back and forth from Dhaka to Calcutta to London, from the past to the present, with a gathering of characters from th… Read More
2023-09-17 11:14
By: Aurora Skye
MaskVisionShapeshifterGhosts
Mask
Your broken childhood was litteredby the shadows of monsters, unleashedto a chorus of screams. There liesyour father, below him you… Read More
2023-09-16 16:37
By Daniel Pratt
Part OnePart TwoPart ThreePart FourPart FivePart SixPart SevenPart EightAuthor Bio
Part One
Alpha’s nose quivered as the acrid scent of disease in his prey rus… Read More
2023-09-16 16:18
By: Alshaad Kara
“Destiny”“Eyes of Deception”
“Destiny”
I am living those nightsWithout your smileAnd your happiness.
If only you wereBy… Read More
2023-09-16 16:14
By: Jim Bates
The last week in JanuaryRolling rural farmlandNighttime deep and stillStars floating in a cosmic hazeHe stands in wonderThe old farmhouse a dream come trueEscape from th… Read More
2023-09-14 13:25
By: Rimli Bhattacharya
The lyrics wouldn’t leave my head. The case was similar with my daughter as well. Upon returning home we tuned in to the famous YouTube our savior and res… Read More
2023-09-14 13:12
By: Georgios Karagiannis
Steve and his brother Bill walked down the narrow dirt road, towards the river. It was still dark outside and cold, but they didn’t mind. They snuck out… Read More
2023-09-14 12:48
By: Don Kingfisher Campbell
Instant CrushHuntington MeridianSimile CitySunset
Instant Crush
stepin your shoeson a sidewalkant
take your sandalin your hand and smasha spider perch… Read More
2023-09-13 11:51
By: Dr. Ernest Williamson III
Without the RedFor Lady Canada
Before she laid with me under the sun,we dreamt awake our dine. Rapt.Together. Penning to die Lady Septemberin Red Octo… Read More
2023-09-13 09:18
By: Michelle Reale
Suburban Neighborhood PastoralSolleoneWhen Summer Begins to Die
Suburban Neighborhood Pastoral
The gray squirrel under the bald tire. The faded beach to… Read More
2023-09-13 09:05
By: Ben Cribbin
At first reading, T.S Eliot’s Choruses from ‘The Rock’ seem like something of a literary joke. Their form is odd: The Rock was a verse play written to ra… Read More
2023-09-13 05:52
Enactus Ramjas, a society at Delhi University founded in 2011, is known for its dedication to addressing societal and environmental challenges through entrepreneurial action. Their projects… Read More
2023-09-12 05:26
By: Priyanshi Agarwal
On the face it brought a bright beamThinking about them in a daydreamTaking out time even when you are busyTalking to them sometimes made you sillyStomach had bu… Read More
2023-09-11 16:03
By: KJ Hannah Greenberg
Sideways MovementsPhenotypic DiversityThe Individual’s Perspective
Sideways Movements
To shy, to surreptitiously slide from moment to momentCould bring… Read More
2023-09-10 09:38
By: Joan McNerney
ImagineThis EveningSpring BathBirthday Present
Imagine
Imagine to be a birdslicing air with wings.
Up up over that horizonsoaring through cloudsaway from solemn… Read More
2023-09-10 09:27
By: Wayne F. Burke
J C PennyMy brother sucks his thumb.Emily DickinsonOn the RoofI Can’t Stand Their VoicesHaiku
J C Penny
“Keep your hands to yourselves,” Grandma… Read More
2023-09-08 12:24
By: S. Philips
Where Icarus WentThe DoctorTo be clean
Where Icarus Went
Weary winter light
Come the rye
Think I'll leave this bed
Can’t trust it anymore
After last night… Read More
2023-09-07 17:06
By: Ellison Henderson
I’m in Love with Walt Whitmanstupid girlThou Shalt Not CovetThe Devil Does the FoxtrotJekyll and Hyde
I’m in Love with Walt Whitman
What an idea! T… Read More
2023-09-07 16:49
By: Pramod Rastogi
Walking up a mountainous pathI saw you bathingUnder a cascade not too highIn its languid flow.Draped in white linenYou stood, eyes closed,Arms held above the forehe… Read More
2023-09-07 16:41
By: Jim Bates
Autumn leaves fallingSo many golden daydreamsYearning to come true.
¬¬
Autumn afternoonAroma of burning leavesMemories so dear.¬¬
Big bright yel… Read More
2023-09-07 06:27
By: Karlie Taylor
On the night before I graduated from college, I could not sleep because I was thinking about Jesus, not in the deep, philosophical kind of way, but the human kind of… Read More
2023-09-07 06:11
By: Heidi Wong
It was summer last year when I noticed crocheted clothing was trendy among my generation. I was mesmerized by the sight of colorful, soft yarn and the way that it was m… Read More
2023-09-07 06:00
By: Christine Yi
As someone from a multicultural background, it can be difficult to fully embrace and live in both cultures daily. I know I’m not alone in this struggle, as many… Read More
2023-09-04 18:28
By: Dennis Williams
Love Trail
As the sun peeps beyond the haze, two lovers set foot for the deep cool woodland, just us, just tw… Read More
2023-09-04 18:18
By: Carl Papa Palmer
Ceremonial cults of self-martyred widowscommemorating grief with daily pilgrimagegladly bearing the burden of grave site visitsas purported auditors assessing eac… Read More
2023-09-04 01:41
By: KJ Hannah Greenberg
Envisaging Vacation
Book closed, newspaper folded, partners nod, envisaging vacation.No fancy doormen, elegant eateries, else extensive tours grow intoEleme… Read More
2023-09-03 15:44
By Linda Woody Griffin
I Will Daily Love YouInvisibleJust A Lonely OneJust Remain
I Will Daily Love You
Though years have passed – I still think of you,Emotions run deep and t… Read More
2023-09-01 17:22
By: Ann Christine Tabaka
A Game of SeasonsI Wanted to SingWhere Have the Years Gone?A Miracle in the MakingAbout Ann Christine Tabaka
A Game of Seasons
The snow fell. Icey winds ble… Read More
2023-09-01 09:41
By: James Aitchison
See life,not with earthly eyes,but through the eternal eyes ofa soul seeking its source.See lifethat provides nothing more rewarding thanknowledge of the self.Seek… Read More
2023-09-01 09:34
By: Tom Ball
People told me I was an alien and not from Earth. Until recently humans didn’t use most of their brain. But, us aliens, helped humans to utilize their whole brain a… Read More
2023-09-01 09:25
By: Jim Bates
Fall was her favorite seasonShe walked woodland trailsCollecting leaves and weeds and grassesSmiling and happy.
Sometimes she’d take him alongHolding his tiny… Read More
2023-08-31 16:50
By: Sujon Ganguly
Chapter 1
Sunday afternoons were a sanctuary of tranquillity for Anjan. As the sun cast a warm glow through the curtains, he relished the simple pleasure of takin… Read More
2023-08-30 08:25
By: Khemendra Kumar
The eclipse lasted for an hour before rainstorms, thunder, and lightning struck in unison as never seen before. Many villagers thought that someone had infuriated… Read More
2023-08-29 10:06
By John Paul Lama
It all began with a careless act.
 &hell…Read More
2023-08-29 09:56
By: D A Angelo
HouseflySpam, spam, spam Ukraine
Housefly
A man accidentally swallowed a fly and didn’t turn into one. A fruit machine of quantum mechanics pulled its arm… Read More
2023-08-29 09:49
By: Bruce Levine
I never thought I was very smart. When it came to gray matter, I always felt that I was rather deficient. In addition to that sense of deficiency I believed that there&rs&hell…Read More
2023-08-29 09:45
By: Bruce Levine
Life often takesTwists and turnsProfusion of desiresOr goals yet definedPassions arousedBy inflated egosPretentious praiseUnwanted and under-fedSuccesses dismantledLi… Read More
2023-08-29 06:00
By: KJ Hannah Greenberg
Virtue SignalingTerroirFashioning Double Reeds
Virtue Signaling
Publicly expressing opinions to demonstrate sagacious character is awfully fraudulent,A mocke… Read More
2023-08-28 17:07
By: J. B. Fite
The CallPoor Vlad’s BluesQuestionsODESAKerson
The Call
Who calls to me in the morningAnd bids me then rise and followJust as the new day is dawning?Sl… Read More
2023-08-27 13:06
By Marieke Steiner
It’s dark out with just a fingernail of moon and no real streetlights on over the backcountry roads the night I decide to put Chase, my ex-girlfriend’s… Read More
2023-08-27 12:55
By: John Kucera
GlaciersThornsCohabitationHarborLost to PainPoet bio:
Glaciers
The shovel, striking a root, thunkedAll the way down to my moist heart.
An acolyte, I knelt t… Read More
2023-08-27 12:47
By: Puneet Kumar
It is SummerWhen You Come HomeWhen You Are AngryTo Feel SpoiledYour Eyes Unexpectedly
It is Summer
It is summerThe sun is roughI am on the streetFull of sweat… Read More
2023-08-27 04:46
By: Karen O’Leary
I rest in tranquility,Meshed in peace.My heart embracesExternal paradise.Robins and bluebirds’Songs serenade me,Each slow step,Dancing with grace.
Ima… Read More
2023-08-26 17:03
By: Jim Bates
Summertime gardenFlowers so bright and cheerfulRefreshing the soul.
Early morning dewDelightful Dancing DropletsSparkling in the sun.
Dragonflies dartingThrough lu… Read More
2023-08-25 11:27
By: Don Tassone
I have a story I’ve never told anyone. I thought I’d take it to my grave, but dying changes the way you think.
In the tim… Read More
2023-08-24 16:35
By: Claudia Kessel
Lullaby to a FawnThe Farm: Slivers of MemoryI Have Loved You
Lullaby to a Fawn
We found you curled beneath the windowpanein the corner, between the brick… Read More
2023-08-24 15:55
By: Srinaath Perangur
IncarcerationPictureImmigration FormThe Promise
Incarceration
I have known who they aresince I was littleI’ve seen himlike this. Reading theEconomist. Hi… Read More
2023-08-23 17:05
By: Jodi Nathanson
I have read and re-read The Great Gatsby so many times that I can recite its lyrical and descriptive passages from memory. My first encounter with this classic of t… Read More
2023-08-22 16:58
By: James Aitchison
One of literature’s great mysteries concerns Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Did the real Miss Havisham live in Sydney, Australia? And if so… Read More
2023-08-21 16:40
By Vanaja Malathy
An AI-generated image of a woman with a Bindi on her forehead
“There’s a mark on your face.”
I was on my walk in a beautiful park in Denv… Read More
2023-08-21 13:42
By: Rachel Chitofu
Because in the past, you fell in love with the wrong woman,when I show you the scar of my heart’s sparked love for you,you mistake its burning intensity for infid… Read More
2023-08-21 12:32
By: Brian Michael Barbeito
it was a long day. sometimes the rains arrived out of nowhere and other times the impossibly hot sun that also blinded us. I was sitting beside the ta… Read More
2023-08-21 10:32
By: Michael Craig
DebbyLiving AnguishLife Ever After
Debby
No diamond in the rough.This woman so exquisitely cut.Set within her, a heart of gold.One that tarnish shall never dull.A… Read More
2023-08-20 12:08
By: Jacob Keating
EggsStained glass clarityHaig pitA sort of friction
Eggs
Under soft sun you make eggs in the morning.It’s distressing me how little you look at the pan.Wrapp… Read More
2023-08-20 11:53
By: Leena Adhvaryu
A doorisaboundary.Itcanbeclosed;itshuts off.Butitcanbeanentrancetoo,athresholdtocross,a pathtobegin,towalk togetheroralone Read More
2023-08-19 15:43
By: Bruce Levine
Seasonal rotationSpring through winterThe calendar cyclesBirth to deathTime chasesThrough the universeAs planets trace circlesAround the sunRevolutions and evolutionsCasc… Read More
2023-08-19 15:35
By John RC Potter
Across TimeStand TallThe Cyclone
Across Time
Across the reflections of time, I see you.I bite my lip, murmur your name, and remember.The memories come back so rapi… Read More
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