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Poem: get away from me

By: Linda M Crate “i like what i see” “what’s up?” i’m at work and the only thing that’s up is my blood pressure, and i don’t see your need to approach me while i’m at work hoping for a…

Poem: Convocation

By: Indunil Madhusankha The heart beset with a thousand hopes which were ever increased by those of his parents who slaved away, not having even a sufficient meal to their stomach A bigger expectation, they bore to see the refinement of…

Poem: Gifts of Mother Materialism

By: Indunil Madhusankha The shining fall of her thickly grown knee length tresses An araliya flower pinned in her hair, near the ear The glamour of her lotus coloured lips and that of her cheeks like rosy petals The beauty of…

Poem: Identity

By: Mohammad Jashim Uddin  I am a Boishakhi Storm. I am a Ruin and Destruction. I am an Atom Bomb. I am a King Cobra. Storm, Ruin, Destruction, Bomb and Cobra to wipe distress of the Humanity. I am a Sail…

Poem: Tranquil Signs Ahead

By: Denny E. Marshall Tall ashen sails of the mind Push hard like gusting inside winds Lost out in the edgeless vastness In deep-waters of receptor ocean No land connections in sight As far as thought perceives Hurricanes push both ways…

Poem: Majestic Wings

By: Denny E. Marshall Heart grows majestic wings to fly away To soar and hide amongst a silver cloud Pump with endless tales, length of Milky Way Heart grows majestic wings to fly away Looking for love behind a new doorway…

Poem: At Times

By: Denny E. Marshall Loneliness is a gene All are born with Evolutions of time Will not detach At times lays dormant Hidden in helix The long spiral strands Are always present Atoms spin around Calls from the past Even crowded…

Poem: Mile of blood on the Elmira tracks

By: Chuck Orlosk On balmy October morning, 2013, Dillon G. (16) trespassed RR Tracks, listened to hip hop music on head set. Earth rumbled, scream of locomotive horn; The voice of Bruno Mars, “you walk around here like you wanna be…