MayChild ’93 by Hakim Kassim

[tabby title="Poem"] (to Amal)Musical Child of May, spirit fierce and fair!Born to Spring when the cricket cheers, orDrowsy nightingale weeps in melody, to begetA new breed that in future glory may rhyme--Here to the twenty, and a thousand to comeOf...

An Interlude, Worthy Of An Arthur Penn TV Movie by Mitja Lovše

[tabby title="Poem"] So much for your breakfast,the army intruded as you hadsome scrambled eggs and coffee.'Can you wait just a little bit longer?' A shot in the head did say no,we cannot wait a little bit longer,so we won't let...

Sunny Side Up by Francis Conlon

[tabby title="Poem"] Not the first to draw a smile,All too often jokes about chicken,Bring a glimmer to my face,A touch of humor with feelings driven. Hens and chicks scurry about,Order called, but who is first?Protective shelter under her wing,As nature’s...

Kaze No Denwa (Or The Phone Of The Wind) by Ron Clinton Smith

[tabby title="Poem"] Beginning with a Japanese man Itaru Sasaki in 2011 who installeda phone in his garden so he could call his cousin passed awayfrom cancer, soon after the Tsunami had washed away 15, 550 liveson the coast of Sendai,...

Her Voice Is like Silver by Brendan Ewen

[tabby title="Poem"] Her voice is like liquid silver,faintly flowing through the fractures of my heart.Every word she spokecrept through faded footpaths of lost love,its warmth soothing sorrow and soldering scars. I knew this would never last-silver will always fade.What I...