Ashraf Booley first sent poems to Poetry Potion in 2012. This poem here below, A Story of the Mind, was featured in our fifth anniversary edition. At the moment of awakening another story ends. Like a book with missing pages,...
The children of great men and woman often bear the weight of their parents’ legacy. They can choose to accept the burden or reject it. If they accept it, they could rise above and beyond or fail tragically. If they...
If we were all to jump into the air at the same time, would the force of our collective landing knock the earth off its course around the sun? on 28 September 100 000 poets around the globe will lend...
That group stunned the citizens With their home-grown optimism And Mickey-Mouse verbal aerobatics, They harped on instant prosperity Propelled by their great discovery, People pinched their bodies upon Hearing the optimists’ story of refined Diesel streaming mystifyingly out of rocks!...
In the old green country The artist painted beauty The river in a flow of orange A blue-grey backdrop The rolling Drakensburg mountain range A mosaic of nine shades With eleven distinct tones Under the cool shade of a willow...