Archive for Poems

  1. THE LAST MORNING OF THE MAMMOTH • by Frederic S. Durbin 3 Comments

    One grey morning the Mammoth
    Perceived an uncouth luminosity
    In the world beyond the curve of his tusks,
    A distasteful display of Necessity,
    A vulgar procession of the very latest Instants;
    And with a mighty snort
    Deep in his trunk he muttered,
    ’Pah. I shall no longer be.’
    And he lay down
    And became a Controversy.
    Frederic S. Durbin is the author of the dark [...]

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  2. THE ROMANTIC AND THE PRAGMATIST, BIKING • by Daniel Ausema 6 Comments

    Sometimes
    I hold my arms out and coast,
    pretending to fly.
    Sometimes
    I grab the handles
    and … pedal hard.
    Daniel Ausema has a background in experiential education and journalism and is now a stay-at-home dad. His fiction and poetry have appeared in dozens of publications, including Every Day Fiction, Nemonymous, MindFlights and Raven Electrick. He lives in Colorado.

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  3. LIBERATED • by Barbara McGinley 4 Comments

    And this is where they… shall we say – lived?
    Can you see? See how the light – as meek
    as the tormented – shies away from the floor?
    What brutes our forefathers, ma’am, you say?
    Perhaps. Those who emerged wore the carapace one way
    or another forever more: it bowed their backs, fouled
    their eyes, they were cowed, gazed
    ever inwards.
    How did they come [...]

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  4. THE WEIGHT OF LIGHT • by Steve Goble 8 Comments

    Censor not contrary views
    nor lock them out of sight
    one should always crush false news
    beneath the weight of light
    Steve Goble writes fantasy, horror and science fiction, along with some poetry. One of his short stories, ‘The Gods-Forsaken World,’ was an honorable mention selection in ‘The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008,’ edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link [...]

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  5. HAPPY NEW YEAR • by Peggy Landsman 4 Comments

    January 1st
    No work, no mail, no money
    Take out the garbage
    Peggy Landsman’s poetry and prose has been published in both online and print literary journals and anthologies, including Gander Press Review, Spindle, The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press), Bridges (Indiana University Press), and Iodine Poetry Journal. Her first poetry chapbook, To-wit To-woo, is available from [...]

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  6. DIALOGUE • by Peggy Landsman 4 Comments

    Why can’t I see in the dark?
    Because you open your eyes.
    Why can’t I see in the dark?
    You only fail when you try.
    But I need to see in the dark.
    Be still then. Be patient. Be present.
    But I need to see in the dark.
    You need with a need much too violent.
    Peggy Landsman’s poetry and prose has been [...]

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  7. THREADS • by Davina Colpman 5 Comments

    Nana’s stationery box kept safe an old photograph, one I’d taken as a child.
    A fine gift she gave me,
    a disposable camera,
    and one summer eve’s mischief in my parent’s garden.
    She hung decorative silver balls, pilfered from the Christmas decorations chest,
    from the trees
    with silk ribbons
    almost like spiders’ webs.
    The kind you see strung with water pearls after it [...]

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  8. CONTENTMENT • by Jeanne Holtzman 3 Comments

    What I miss,
    even more than passion that flares
    like a parched forest stuck by lightning,
    is the yearning.
    The greedy, delicious pain
    that you reach for again and again,
    like wiggling a loose baby tooth.
    The hollow pain that expands
    like bread dough on a warm spring day,
    filled with the whistle of missed trains
    and the scents of lost lovers.
    Pungent with promise, it [...]

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  9. LAST CALL HOME • by Darren Coxon 7 Comments

    You’re there at the end of my voice
    as a crackle, a hum, the distant percussion
    of pain as you turn from out to in.
    You have no language now with which
    to play your part in us; only a pause
    as the things I say to hold your silence back
    make the last scratches on a memory
    that will soon be [...]

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  10. OUT WITH THE OLD • by Iagoybardd 4 Comments

    Secret Santa’s slashed his gifts
    His belt and buckles tightened
    And all around a joyless sound
    His Ho-Ho-Ho seems frightened.
    So it’s out with the old
    And out with the new
    Shameless and boldly
    They’ll stick with a few
    And everyone wonders
    – Aren’t you wondering as well –
    If these cuts will bring peace
    In our work, or be hell?
    Iagoybardd, also known as James Spradbery, is [...]

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