Month: May 2024

To be a monarch is to be the queen or to grow wings and fly away Flying toward the sons of my atomic atmosphere Maternity stripped from my womb to be given to a mother whose children knew nothing of her sorrows and grief This internal home deserving of protecting at every price that was… Continue reading Read Poem: THE FALL OF THE TOTEM, by Mina Hakmoun

When your girlhood leaves you, you are, kind of, still a girl. When grandma speaks of her regrets it’s almost as if she’s right there. Like it’s almost possible to bring her twin back from the dead, away from the bottle 50 or more years ago, rearrange the puzzle pieces so that she makes it… Continue reading Read Poem: Louise in Paris in the World of the Undead, by Tesa Flores

Behind forlorn walls of concrete, on the floor of my room, there was nothing but loneliness. Something brimming here before it dies, was it a halt, or a sign? I was lavender today and I, almost died my death this morning. I fear, everything, sky will collapse, even I know it won’t, I still fear.… Continue reading Read Poem: CURSE OF LOVE, by Tsz Ching Chan

We need to forgive ourselves our humanness. We are messy creatures. We all contain infinite emotions that we grapple with understanding. We were never taught this stuff. We try to learn as we go. So we experiment. Countless If Then statements is our existence. We fail. We hurt. No results. The same results. Different results.… Continue reading Read Poem: Experiment, by Joshua Burgamy

It’s control for you. Pick and prod. Stir shit up. Tear us apart. You know every button, Every point, To ultimately Turn me off. Sometimes saying, Something so sideways It shuts everyone down. No one wants a negative Nancy. Came together to celebrate, One love. Yet for you, It was not enough. Children don’t always… Continue reading Read Poem: CONTROL, by Night Shade

Two years have crawled, each day a jagged tear, Since love’s deceit ripped open all I knew. His laughter haunts, a ghost I long to sear, Replaced by emptiness, a chilling dew. He walks with her, a cruel and vivid scene, A twisted mirror mocking what we had. My fragile heart, though armored, shrieks unseen,… Continue reading Read Poem: SHATTERED DREAMS, by Anisha Guchait

If you seek, She sees And greets thy energy with the spring of every possibility And the fall of all in-between, Yet even deeds She needs For Synergy to fill serendipity spoons from an endless pit. Then work steady to the moon, Stain with clay thy satin sleeves, And Divine divides its offsprings from halcyon… Continue reading Read Poem: The Synergy, by Jack dos Passos

Beloved, scattered seeds flung in the tumble on winter wind, when you grow along the same bank though days away will you save a bite for me – Some of summer in fall’s ferment?

The devil wears black, invisible in the night. God wears white, he has nothing to hide. The devil drinks whiskey and cries for his pain. God drinks water and casts all the blame. The devil’s seen much evil and taken part in it too. The devil has regrets, more than a few. But God is… Continue reading Read Poem: THE DEVIL WEARS BLACK, by Nico Green

6 months until hope Hope that makes me feel weak because of the walls I’ve built 5 months until travel Travel that expands my world further than I ever imagined 4 months until going home Home that I found after I tried to hide from it 3 months until escape Escape that I have been… Continue reading Read Poem: THE START, by