Category: Poem

4th September 2019

Our Bed

Poem I get up to pee at four in the morning. Like most four in the mornings, The apartment is cold and dark. The cat’s claws skitter across the linoleum, chasing something unseen in the...

Poem

BY Lëaf Ednïwinga

4th September 2019

Wings

Poem Shimmering in the pale night, Wings fluttering like leaves, Coming to rest for a moment on a window-pane; Looking in, at the candlelight that we can’t get to, Longing to rest in...

Haibun / Poem

BY Frank J. Tassone

29th August 2019

Visiting our newest Great Niece

Julianna sleeps. Caterina dressed her in a light, pink baby dress. She has much brown, curly hair in only two weeks! While Mira chats with Anna-Maria in Portuguese, Frankie stroke’s the baby’s cheeks. We’ve...

Favourites / Poem

BY Anna Elise

28th August 2019

The Red Ribbon

Poem Night music Drifting with a stranger Feeling a slight sense of beautiful danger Trust feels so exciting The world is expanding Smiling at the unknown Dancing, feeling connected Swept away The world...

Poem

BY Ursula Rabar Babic

28th August 2019

The Choice

Poem That was it that moment the suspense me growing up and saying no. Suspended in the air my thoughts were trying to grasp the reality of what my brain just did, and...

Haibun / Poem

BY Frank J. Tassone

22nd August 2019

Smuggs Chronicle ’14, Day 16: August 9, 2014

I awake at five. Toss and turn until seven. Then give up and center on the deck for the last time at Smuggs this season. Birdsongs, so different and yet similar, to home; the...

Poem

BY Anna Elise

21st August 2019

Swimmers

On the way home, riding through twilight and vast open fields. The sky is a glowing blue shadow. Serene and deep, we dive into it. Wrapped up in a viscous blanket. Immersed in waves...

Poem

BY VK Lynne

21st August 2019

Mapmaker

Poem The horizon, a straight black line, cut a diameter across her pupils. The land, neither lush nor barren, stretched out seamlessly. No path, road, or signpost marred the view. She clenched her hands...