Category: Poetry
Review of I Wear Self-Confidence Like a Second Skin
Reviewer: Adeola Gbalajobi Written with a simple, singsong approach, author Tolu Akinyemi’s ‘I Wear Self-Confidence Like a Second Skin’ is a book that will delight every young reader who is learning to fall in love with words. A beautiful story about young Matilda who learns to be confident in every situation, ‘I Wear Self-Confidence […]
Four Poems | Tim Kahl
The Little Angel There was one little angel with a tricked-out wing that hung on the tree. Every year it got stuck in the back and stared at the wall. There are too many milkweed pod birds on this damn thing, the angel cried, and birds weren’t even part of the manger scene. The […]
Three Poems | Yuan Changming
Mindful Mindset 1/ Here: Into the Reality You see, here’s the leaf dyed with the full Spectrum of autumn; here’s the dewdrop Containing all the dreams made on the Darkest corner of last night; here’s the Light pole in the forest where gods land From another higher world; here’s the swirl You can […]
Four Poems | Donna Pucciani
Alessandro, Five Months Old In twenty years, your old American auntie will be dead—or wishing she were— and you will be a young man strutting your stuff in the streets of Madrid, turning heads in tavernas or at the university where your English spangles the campus of Romance tongues. Your pants […]
Four Poems | PW Covington
Vampire Conditions These are vampire conditions, Brian Pulling in all manner of matter and kindness Taking it all, letting nothing escape The many varieties of vampire Stalking through William Burroughs’ Western Lands Through Milky Way Los Angeles…and worse Vampirism is as American As the Internet Always taking more than giving Dead and dying, always more […]
Four Poems | Ramachandran M A
This Time this time you set off for a house in the shadow of a leaf this time you stand in a house that doesn’t exist still this time you open a door and a window to the garden this time in the leaf-fall this time neither your father […]
Once Upon A Virus – A Work Of Art Inspired By A Poet’s Survival Of The Pandemic That Rocked The World
Reading poems as a child was such a bore sometimes. Though I read them quite often, I never enjoyed it. I was never a fan. It was as if they hid the written words in a painted veil waiting to be unmasked by the reader-a daunting chore I felt I wasn’t yet ready for. Even […]
Affection & Other Accidents – A Poet’s Grief and Vulnerability watermarked in this collection of poems
Reviewer: Creative Titan Dami Ajayi’s latest release “Affection & Other Accidents” is his third volume of poems, after his first volume “Clinical Blues” and his second collection, “A Woman’s Body is a Country” which were released to great acclaim. This new release reveals a poet at the peak of his literary powers. Like the […]
Four Poems|John Grey
MORNING IS Morning is a sparrow perched on a rooftop, trilling short sweet notes. Or a blue jay circling, hacking like an old man clearing his throat. It’s not me. It’s not my yawns. It’s not my knuckles rubbing their way into my eye sockets. Morning is always beyond the window. It’s a flower nudged […]
Four Poems|Ian Mullins
Behind The Bar Paddling in piss, the gents unblocked, I steer a course back behind the bar. Lisa pulls her last half-pint while I count the tips and lock the doors. We wait for our lifts in the drooling rain. A police car slows down to examine our faces, turning off its siren as […]