Archive for Free Form

1. STOIC PRECEPTS • by James Graham 14 Comments

   ‘Desire what you already have’.
   I wish to see again the silver cat
   that pads about my garden, spying all ways,
   staring, stalking, chasing a blowing leaf.
   His name is Max, and he hallucinates.
   He sees fat blackbirds land on fence-posts,
   throws himself at them.
   I wish for the knack of conjuring
   this cat into a poem. I wish
   for as much poetic skill
   as [...]

   Free Form, Inspirational, Other
   
   

2. DISTANCE • by J.D. Di Lella 8 Comments

   Far away
   from the touch
   that comforted me
   when despair followed me like a shadow
   nourishes one
   very young
   inside you
   who only feels the tickle of the toes from above the skin
   while tucked safely in a belly.
   One day
   some day
   soon
   I will touch you both
   with more than
   words.
   J.D. Di Lella is a fourth year Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Eastern New Mexico University. Regardless of [...]

   Free Form, Inspirational, Literary, Other, Poems
   
   

3. AN AUDIENCE OF ONE • by Casey Quinn 16 Comments

   an audience
   of one
   but millions
   in the mind
   cheer on
   an aged
   dreamer
   the almost
   rocker
   hits a final
   out
   of tune
   note
   soap based
   microphone
   placed
   back
   on the stand
   curtains
   open
   and he
   exits
   his stage.
   Casey Quinn writes prose and poetry. He is also the editor of the online magazine Short Story Library.

   Free Form, Humour/Satire, Narrative, Poems
   
   

4. FOLDED POEMS • by Tina Cole 10 Comments

   Poems are folded inside me
   in tiny tissue paper scraps
   yellowed with age and their
   long time waiting; others embrace
   bigness like bed sheets folded
   corner to corner and steam ironed
   so that when opened they map
   a journey of thoughts; some are
   screwed into tight bundles, discarded
   again and again only to be reclaimed,
   revised; smoothed out; accepted.
   The lucky few have found an
   envelope, are [...]

   Free Form, Literary, Poems
   
   

5. WORD • by Anuradha Vijayakrishnan 19 Comments

   Mango jam made yesterday, or last
   month. In your kitchen, beneath
   the towel rack where you do not
   hang a blue and white towel
   any more.
   I dip two fingers right into the jam and remember
   to do it quietly. Because you might
   still hear me, come storming in from
   the bedroom where the bed
   lies unmade now.
   I wipe my hands on my skirt [...]

   Free Form, Literary, Poems
   
   

6. AT DAY’S END • by dj barber 12 Comments

   at
   day’s end
   a darkened sky
   sprinkles starlight
   on snowcapped mounts
   reflected in cool alpine lakes
   at day’s end
   the gentle winds
   whisper softly through
   ponderosa pine and aspen
   the sweet lullaby of the gloaming
   at day’s end
   when crickets chirp
   a lone wolf call beckons
   through snowcapped mounts
   a darkened sky of sprinkled starlight
   From the hinterlands of the Willamette Valley, DJ Barber writes. Hopefully a tale will come your [...]

   Free Form, Nature, Poems
   
   

7. HEADSTONES • by Wordsculptor 9 Comments

   Vanished people leave headstones in my life.
   Monoliths and cairns scattered
   in uncomfortable miscellany
   finger every contemplation.
   Engravings of joy and sorrow
   mark their passage
   in crevasses of remembrance.
   Some bring summer sunshafts
   into dismal days;
   friends who come, open and in welcome,
   bringing encouragement in unwrapped parcels.
   Others, in accusation, bring curtains of darkness
   to ambush bright moments;
   enemies in disguise and deception,
   cloaked hurt and harm.
   There are [...]

   Free Form, Literary, Poems