Poetry

Secrets Beneath His Chest by Miss Verse When you bare secrets Resting in the shadows Beneath your chest Have faith in me To hide them as my own When silent whispers From your heart Begin to rage and roar I'll kiss each dejected beat To coax them into a song   Miss Verse is a professional dancer, artist and poet. You can read more of her work on Twitter … [Read more...] about Secrets Beneath His Chest by Miss Verse

Fly Away by Esha Jaiswal   Watch me flout you You ain’t broken You ain’t frozen What you feel Is ruptured Is an elegant piece Of sculpture Thy soul, brave and bold To the world – harsh and cold There’s nothing to fear Fly now! Wings unfurled Caelum beckons you Untamed and wild Alike ebullient child     A soul made of words nestling in … [Read more...] about Fly Away by Esha Jaiswal

The Hurt that Binds by Sarahmour time can’t erase the sting, He ~ a charismatic Master, with his playthings although her lips still tremble and she’s unable to admit it aloud, she once believed she was his everything but she’s accepted it now, just like the others, she ~ one of many, lost in the crowd Sarahmour is the pen name of a whimsical soul who has a … [Read more...] about The Hurt that Binds by Sarahmour

Suspenseful Eyes by adivayeatts Suspenseful eyes crash Elemental fire, scarlet touch In tandem gossamer dreams Frail knot binding seams Hereafter echoes of lust Forbidden fruit insanity Another bridge crossed First kiss of dawn clarity Minds in bloom Sun and Moon Our ocean home Yours Mine Together As one. You can read more by adivayeatts at her Twitter: … [Read more...] about Suspenseful Eyes by adivayeatts

Shame by Anne Lost Shame Always came with sticky fingers darting eyes taking what wasn’t mine Yet hungry cries had me reaching and taking to quiet the grumbling rumbling, to erase haunted looks and fill hollow cheeks of us three kids looking for food each and every week   Anne is the pen name of a lost poet. She loves working out with weights … [Read more...] about Shame by Anne Lost

Inanimate Objects by Louis Gallo Notice how they often don’t comply, that you drop them or knock into them or can’t get them open or closed or find them (and if you do they’re broken) and however else they rebel against your ardent desire. Shamans tell us that even rocks possess a smidgen of consciousness, of spirit, which convinces me that the … [Read more...] about Inanimate Objects by Louis Gallo

JANUARY by Sylvia Ashby Greetings to you, Janus: the gods' god, their father figure. The gateway god, presiding over entrances & exits, arrivals & departures, births & deaths--either one. In other words, doors of every sort. CEO of all beginnings following on the heels of inevitable ends. Two-faced Janus, divine doorman, magically peering to & fro: … [Read more...] about January by Sylvia Ashby

Fruit-Flavored Marshmallows by David Lohrey   Thanksgiving fails? That’s what Christmas is for. Thaw out the left-over turkey, warm up the stuffing. You can turn the mush into something. Skip the cranberries; they cause global warming. Try golden seaweed instead. We’ll go to that new restaurant at the Bellagio. It has replaced its famous Picassos with works by … [Read more...] about Fruit-Flavored Marshmallows by David Lohrey