My First Word Was Daddy by Xabiso Vili

[tabby title="Poem"] I tried to speak to my father today, tried to build a bridge between our tongues, but the salty waters beneath the spaces between us are already infected with the decaying words that never made it across. So...

I Have Heard Mermaids Singing by Clinton Inman

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Across wet glass we rub our noses To paint a picture that presupposes Like confused footsteps that reach Across some worn and weathered beach. Words that fix you, find you, Words that bind you, blind you, Words...

The Day-Thieves by Charl Landsberg

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] (for the LGBTQI community) they came to steal the sun away and silence all our songs and poems for only 'righteous' folk may sing by the sunlight so we sang by the light of a dying candle...

Valentine by Harold John Delport

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] If LOVE be the master of emotions to this date; Then I be a slave and let it seal my fate. A cupid's arrow straight to my heart; Since that day I vowed not to part. To...

Doors by Rodney “TheATM” Roskruge

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Door faced down we all started out in this room called a womb pear-shaped Door faced up we all going to end up in this room called a tomb square-shaped inbetween that is what you and I...