Archive for Poems
-
(EVENT IS IN THE PAST) • by Gavin Broom
No Comments
The airport barmaid knows what we want to hear, so kindly dismisses fourteen weeks as though wafting a thin thread of smoke from a dying cigarette, but she gives herself away with an offer of liquid consolation and three little words: “On the house.” We arrive at departures to meet comfort in the angle of [...]
Poems, Romance
-
DADDY LONG LEGS • by Stephanie Smith 4 Comments
A thumbless man plays upright bass with his feet The jazz cats purr through scotch-soaked fur A diva leaves drops from her martini glass on men’s noses Her voice clings to the ceiling like a cobweb Songs of the sewer throb: old soul and singing strings through Mingus-inspired heartbeats Daddy Long Legs scats and croons [...]
Poems, Surreal
-
UNTITLED HAIKU • by Rachel Sutcliffe 7 Comments
topless in morning mist trees Rachel Sutcliffe As a youngster I had a great imagination and I loved story and poetry writing. For a while my creative writing took a back seat as I discovered the joys of foreign language learning. However I remained an avid reader despite not writing as much myself. Personal [...]
Humour/Satire, Poems
-
URBAN NATURE POEM • by Rachel Aydt No Comments
Against color flash of saturated sun melting February down into pudding Warm air blows past the St. Mark’s Hotel, where the hit and run driver parked his malice for a two-hour stay. I dodge puddles of spit in front of sun-warmed benches at Cooper Union. The one facing 3rd Avenue is breezy but clean. [...]
Literary, Poems
-
EX-ERCISE • by Ian Williams 3 Comments
I flirted briefly with exercise; bumping into each other at a New Year’s Eve party, promising to meet up in January. So we did. I got all dressed up and wore a rose in my cheeks. After a slow start we hit it off, became firm friends, met regularly, went for long walks, bicycle rides, [...]
Humour/Satire, Poems
-
DOROTHY CALLS • by therunningchelsea 2 Comments
hearing your words shook a couple of litres o’ wine into the belly of all the butterflies and their tongues started to spread your legend to the people who already knew (for S.H) therunningchelsea performs his songs and poems live, sometimes dancing between loop stations and effects pedals, in various guises under [...]
Poems, Romance
-
MY NEIGHBOR • by Rachel Aydt No Comments
Every morning Chin Lee carries a yoke weighed down with cans and bottles. Twisted and ancient, she knocks on my door and I open it to receive a gift. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Do not sell. This product is a part of the Food Aid program. She holds a can to her nose [...]
Literary, Poems
-
FLIGHT OF FANTASY • by Sandra Crook 3 Comments
Chime and chime again, still deeper into darkness towards dawn. Inspiration tumbles through a mind that craves for rest, tired fingers tap at mental keys, weaving stories which seem wondrous yet fragment like cobwebs in the morning light. Sandra Crook lives in Cambridgeshire, UK and spends several months a year cruising the French [...]
Etheree, Form, Poems
-
THE SEMINARY OFFERED A FULL REFUND • by Chuck Von Nordheim 2 Comments
“Let’s marinate your God,” she said, “in this epidemic of gin until the peaberry bitterness of his chess player strategy for my personal salvation becomes as listless as sea-star tides washing a coral orchard.” He’d known a girl with pink yarn tied around her ponytail before but she was his first with a tattoo. [...]
Humour/Satire, Poems
-
STUDY OF A FOAM PAINTBRUSH • by Gwen Tarbet 1 Comment
No leisure to dream, aspire to great things, beyond cheap grey foam on a dowel. Not an art brush crafted from mink or sable, and hardwood, patiently lounging in a paint-splattered jar. Each open plastic cell is functional, disposable, rough and ready to do the job; one shot only. Gwen Tarbet recently won [...]
Literary, Poems
