By: David I Mayerhoff The Beauty of It All The soft day Morphs Into the dead of night Each bring with them The essence of beauty and wonder The warm afternoon breeze […]
‘The Beauty of It All’ and other poems by David I Mayerhoff
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A Blue Soul
By: Gabriella Garofalo A bit of advice, blue works best if you need To creep in on the sly, it’s the latest fad, Peeking at the stunning shows of some wannabe star, Nobody […]
Crane Game
By: Nicole Le Crane sleeps in again. He calls up that girl from Nico’s apartment to see if she wants to hang out. She comes over and they smoke cigarettes together in the […]
After My Money
By: Alan Berger A wedding? What are you nuts? Let me straiten you out. So, what if I wasn’t born into it? I was born, and I grabbed it. We didn’t start […]
State of Life
By: Ramprasath “What have you done, Mark?” John’s voice was filled with anxiety. “What?” “He was one like you” Mark grew impatient instantly. “John, I had to worry about my safe return. Jonathan […]
The Web Weaver’s Sacrifice
By P.A. O’Neil Aggie slumped back into her Queen Anne desk chair, elbows resting on the slender arms, hands on her thighs. She stared at the crisp sheet of white paper rolled […]
Da’gbolu – a reckless bush burner
By: Olatubosun David See a young man smoking burrow All alone in that bush He did so last year And burnt my farms of precious crops Striping me bare of costly income […]
Poems: ‘Distraction’ n ‘When I come back’
By: Kelvin J. Shachile Distraction I dream I am in a homeWhich isn’t my own.I see light like a flash far away fromThe fields where the Maasai moransHerd their flocks and cattle.And […]
The Rescue
By: Dan A. Cardoza Mr. Simmons’s grips his gloved hands on the steering wheel, as his rusty Ford 150 jostles the turns, along the gravel road on a mission. The intermittent click/clack of […]
The Lesson
By: Dan A. Cardoza The first writing ink was invented in 2500 B. C. by the Egyptians and the Chinese. It is believed that this ink was made by mixing carbon with gum. […]
