Crumbs by Carice Frank

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] What crumbs we are compared to loaves of kneaded expectations And yet we’d have them scrounge for lifetimes Sticking to their famished fingers Feeding their little minds with tasteless worries We’d love nothing more than to lie...

A Poem A Day writing prompt 9 Feb 2015

this week's writing prompt: "If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it." ~Alice Walker today is Alice Walker's...

Observations of a Possible Alien by Claudia Moremohola

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] I have a confession to make: I feel a little alien I feel as though I'm a visitor from a world beyond this one Observing. I see a species driven by an age old system that doesn't...

A Soul’s Home by Thabang Ngoma

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Who am I supposed to be A tear in someone’s eye, not me... I am... what is possible if valleys rise into ice capped mountains And rivers flow until their waters sink to spring into beautiful fountains...

“Strangers kiss softly as moths” by Xabiso Vili

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] A quote from Michael Ondaatje’s “In the skin of a lion” You burnt me With your singed, Still-warm fluttering Kisses, Or was it I Who burnt you? I still can’t decide Who was the flame And who...