The Last of Everything by Edson

[tabby title="Poem"] Each time we go to bed,a part of us doesn’t wake up,and one day the rest of us will not.We will close our eyes,never to open them again. As one after another,days leave our bodies,like smoke from an...

Numbing Winter by Andreas Treki Dohtdong

[tabby title="Poem"] After winter's song,Spring should singdeafen my ears to its sister.I hope it will.I hope because I am unsurethat its notes will sound in my heartand numb the numbness afflicting it.At least put a smile on this face, a...

Love Poems During War by Charl Landsberg

[tabby title="Poem"] At this point even the small connections,feel like a 'well done' and pat on the head,after your head has been ripped clean off.But it's nice, given what could have been instead.So is it okay if I say, "I...

Prayer by Refiloe Mdluli

[tabby title="Poem"] Release us Lord from the manacles of ignorance.Part our enslaved minds from the prejudice and hatred that hold our humanity captive.Make sober our minds to the hurt we inflict.Open our eyes so we may see the bloody ink...

Our World Is Watching by Celia Turner

[tabby title="Poem"] Sun lights up a new daysecure in planetary way. Night cool lingers, fingersof cool steal in open windows. Trees are breathing throughtheir lungs of leaves. Thereis no shade like a tree’s. In the city building’s canyonsteem with chorus...