6 new micro poems ~ Mykyta Ryzhykh

6 new micro poems 1 Note to the poets: All the poems have already been written Use google.com 2 Why do you need wings if you are not a bird? 3 Just grab the emptiness of the apartment with your hands The cat gave birth to dead kittens They are all called Jesus 4 He looked towards the burning sea and said to me And […]

3 lost poems by TIM STALEY

THE TAKE OUT I paddle the kayaks back to the boathouse. First the sea yak with it’s great tracking Then the little yellow one for children And finally the two small blue ones Good for racing because they’re equally handicapped. Now the sailboat’s just a dingly, I lost the sail when i capsized. I swim […]

Soldiering through an internal war ~ Bob McNeil

Soldiering through an internal war Helpless in a hospital, While laid out like a cadaver, My thoughts are mercurial. Petitioning for health is my endeavor. Although zeroed on my pain, I look at the TV news, Feeling levels of disdain And guilt for writing the blues. Some people in war-torn lands remain strong. Undaunted, they’re […]

REYLEAN LUCERO ~ WALLY WORLD

WALLY WORLD In the flower pencil I write. Writing while im drifting away. Drifting away to the tulip field, I dont like tulips. Though the fragrant is more beautiful then the tulip, Roses are more my style Roses I find at the store with the blue name The store that is solid for everything, To […]

Damian Mercer ~ LOVE AND TIME INTERTWINED

LOVE AND TIME INTERTWINED The past never thought the present could be such a gift, nor did the future predict I would forfeit to this pretty woman’s kiss, never did the future guess that this woman would happily live in my skin, settle in my mind, be the first in the heart hotel to check […]

WINNING POEMS FROM THE 3rd ANNUAL KAREN TRUJILLO TEEN POETRY CONTEST ~ LAS CRUCES, NM ~2024

HONORABLE MENTION – Michael Taylor Utah GirlsI wanna be more disciplined and responsiblePissing off a mountain into a riverYour watermelon can’t believe, approve, or understand your behavior and he is very upsetGrumpy man with with a tan, sitting in a lawn chair in a blizzard, Coca-Cola in hand, upsidedown, drinking his magazineMy teacher told me […]

Lucie Chou ~ i want a requiem by a requiem for

i want a requiem by a requiem for (birdfolk in the Xingqinggong Park and elsewhere) sparrows and brownie song thrushes moiling rustling blades panicles scattered tree nuts fallen leaves taking death with such light heart they have gone live again flickering flames like acorns and filberts fed by sun-eating leaves they’ve made themselves plump as […]

5 POEMS ~ Bradford Middleton

AS MY PHONE LAY DYING My phone lay in its cradle breathing its last Breath as it slowly dies in front of my very Eyes. The incessant little beep enough to drive Some out of their sad little minds but for me I Count the moments until they stop or I just put The damn […]

BOB MCNEIL – Metered Billing

Metered Billing Even the moon rues its union with the Earth. Inch by inch, at the rate of a fingernail’s growth, it’s creating ways to glide away the same way we would when someone sneezes around our space. But can you find that object’s decision objectionable? It gave us turning tides, romantic nights, mythos, poems, […]

POETRY: LET THE GROUND BREATHE WITH YOU – Jennifer Lothrigel

Let The Ground Breathe With You

Let the ground breathe with you,
not in opposition.

On my morning run
I pass by two elderly women
walking with their canes.
Scent of timeless roses.

Let the ground breathe with you,
not in opposition.

Dew drops line the center of aloe leaves,
the sweat on my unwashed morning skin,
has collected in the center of my chest−
still heavy with last night’s dreams;
I searched all night through alternative realities
for my drunk husband.Let the ground breathe with you.
not in opposition.

A man walks by with his dog,
pants under his breath
“It’s harder uphill, isn’t it.”

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