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Haiku by Kimberly Potter Kendrick

By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick Anguish Excruciating Unbearable, agony Intolerable # Breeze Leaves falling briskly Windy, blades waving in sync Branches quivering # Ocean Crystal clear water Waves in rapid succession Splashing, sandy floor # Harmony Birds chirping faintly Meditation, clarity…

Poem: Marina Beach

By: Chandra Shekhar Dubey The sprawling sands spread around your girdle , greeting lofty and wild waves on its naked bed. Rising and falling waves like mermaids sink into sublimated, sandy foams ; losing their magical colours of mystery The…

Poem: Some Days

By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick Average day it began Woke up before dawn Listened to 80’s favorites Half awake phone vibrates Call received at 7 am A faraway friend We chat as she drives So far ordinary day it is Checking…

Poem: I’ve Been so Creative

By: Katie Lewington my elbows sparkled with glitter and my nose is smudged in glue akin to baking cakes but such an orgasmic feeling, my God to be relating to the steady flow and rhythm to the heart in your soul…

Poem: Love of my Life

By: Katie Lewington you are the eighth, seventh sixth and fifth forth, third second and first wonder of the world the deep colour of your eyes the folding up of your glasses ruffled strands of your hair the weight of…

Poem: Air i breathe

By: Katie Lewington  poetry – quit, no this is for a living an appreciated form of writing call it poetry and it will have people saying i don’t read that but in a different guise it’s a meme, a share and…

Poem: Same Time Next Week

By: Kimberly Potter Kendrick Wall to wall recliners and IV poles Unknown show on television Too far to see or hear Special chair saved with my name Others backed into cinderblock wall All the way back mine stretches Eases the…

The Sun Rising After You

By: James Diaz there was the time before i knew the shape that my life would take the time before i first held something sharp against my wrist that could split the skin separate my spirit from my body the time…

Clear as the Night Bearing Down

By: James Diaz I’d drive you to the coast but there’s ice in a bone I keep shadowed at night the floor creaks like the first chair moved awkwardly across the gymnasium floor of your first gathering of drunks I want…