Three Poems by Sandra Kolankiewicz
Scholar to Scholar The mouth takes on the look of all it said and didn’t say, the enjambed intentions that never made it out the door, the ones that did but shouldn’t lying on the floor like ......
View ArticleTwo Poems by Luke Roe
A DECLARATION Beneath the ticky-tacky, the facade of goodwill and charm- a wild, fattening boar with a pit of no known end the new lord of the age dressed in diadems and pearls a baphomet in a...
View ArticleA Nation Croaking – Poem
(A nation in despair at a time of great unrest, fighting for survival and ultimately justice in the face of inexplicable horror.) After silence comes violence, innocent souls take blame for evil men...
View ArticleAm I better than you? A Scripted Murder
Am I better than you because I’ve gotten better from something that I’ve made a matter? A six-year-old danced his way to a million in six seconds and I’m taught the route to success is by going through...
View ArticleThe Dream
Out of a job. Should I sit and sob? Or drown my head down in pot? Because it feels like I’m down and out with no hope to cope, I feel like there’s no lifeguard to help keep me afloat.... The article...
View ArticleFrank Yang: Thoughts
Your mind is like a piece of art It’s a collage of pixels blindly organised You feel a sense of accomplishment along the road but right now you’ve got a one-way ticket to being demoralised You store...
View ArticleHope – A Poem by John Guzlowski
HOPE When my mother was dying, she insisted for a long time that she could beat death. She had survived the murder of her family by the Nazis, years in concentration camps, living from hand to mouth in...
View Article‘Once A Year’– A Poem
Once a year, when the end is near oh, yes I fear! A day when all agitation awakens it celebrates, pain-day by that time I become insane it barricades lost words found the haunting confessions this may...
View ArticleThree Short Poems by Kirby Wright
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View ArticleSupermarket Haiku – A Poem by Virginie Colline
Supermarket Haiku gondola galore sweet promises undulate to the muzak flow the flashy colors on the potato chip rack insitu pop art dry water coolers an inflated crocodile marooned on the tiles canned...
View ArticleCaught Up
I’m your knight in shining armour and I need you You have made me what I am and I am yours to do all you need me to My love, there’s so many ways I want to say I love... The article appeared first on...
View ArticleStruggling Decades
Struggling decades, to cope, for this life you make so hard Two decapods drifted Nothing remains, these, which perish in dust I see no more sparkles in dimness All’s altering, each and all We stay...
View ArticleRing of Death
November 25th marks the International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women and also the official start of the 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. The theme for this year is:...
View ArticleIt takes a beating heart
It takes the sound of a beating heart warning you, from the storm so towering when it slows, prepare the body for the heaviness, pain like it’s nothing but the flesh feels too much the destruction...
View ArticleLittle Girl Forever
Can you imagine losing everything you loved in the blink of an eye. You see a little girl now and all you wanna do is just cry. You try and move on but you think they’re alive. Because you see... The...
View ArticlePoetry Break: Life Cycles
They say at twenty you’re filled with dreams and hope And by thirty you look at your life and can no longer cope You used to see a challenge at the sight of a rope But now you see a... The article...
View ArticlePoetry Break: Dear Black Girl
Black girl, wear your melanin like a cloak of superpowers. wear it like the mean stares don’t faze you. Like the shouts of disapproval don’t scare you. Black girl, own your melanin. Let your brown eyes...
View ArticlePoetry Break: Riot Shield
Zooming onto a black and white pointillist poster Within the barriers of a shop window Our sight describes a young man with a lean face A warm embrace, And an ever so slight smile, This is matched with...
View ArticlePoetry Break: Addiction Road
Addiction Let me take you on a trip, stop you from feeling sick, you’re having a feeling of withdrawals and I can help you get through it. Just follow me, don’t ask where, just trust me, I understand,...
View ArticlePoetry Break: When Plato Turned A Cave Into A Sex Dungeon
Bars roll across TV screens Their irrelevant progression projecting the dim light into my eyes Of drab men in suits debating how light should be projected onto the streets, Me, ten at the time, knew...
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