Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Alpha and Omega by Jennifer Richards
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Scintillating starlight
wishing that I might
Graceful as the brush strokes
Of prayer in that painting
Yearning for protection
God’s omniscient luminous presence
A paradise lost
“The ease you find to slumber here,
As in the vales of heaven…” *
The thick velvet curtain closes
The alpha and omega falling
Rebellious angels and burning wings
Icarus, my darling, the great declination
The close of an era
An apocalypse in […]
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Imitation by Josh Culpepper
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
I walked to the edge of creation in this wrinkled brown bag crumbled leaf town to watch
the mountain smother the simple Promethean horse-drawn forgetfulness of the sunlight’s fire.
Ginsberg sat beside me as a yellowed sour water-stained pamphlet with ink-splattered
thoughts that tempted and twisted my ink-splattered mind.
The rusted belts of red iron stretched for miles that […]
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Lost at Sea by Dana Kraft
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
A distant voice cries out but aloud is never spoken.
The waves closed in on me as my opportunity ripped from my fingers.
Locked in a trance, sinking into regret, lost in a sea of blue.
Then I reached out and touched you.
The pull lifted me out, a pathway is given.
Hope lifts me out of my sea legs […]
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Imagine What Earth Is by Theresa Reynolds
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Imagine earth an ice rink
Where feet slip and slide
Struggle a mental balance
Where coldness seeps in bones
Warmth of human kindness
Are we that bold?
Imagine earth a garden
Where weeds a tangled vine
Crushing living blooms
Scratching earth to survive
Plant the seeds again
Are we that bold?
Imagine earth a book
Worn and tattered pages
Science of wonder and thorns
Rumble through the pages
Separating sadness and […]
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Solitude by Aubrey O’Connor
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Lying in fragmented silence
Listening to a bird’s melancholy theme.
Mist simmers between empty spaces of wet grass
In the moments just before dawn.
Frost cloaks each windowpane
With illusions of beauty,
Bumps prickle along flesh
Saturated with guilt.
Upon the wrinkled bed, the scent of a broken promise
Lingers in the folds of lust.
The approaching sun will not penetrate this chill.
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I Kissed a Stranger by Jennifer Richards
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
I kissed a stranger.
The woman was arching her back in desire on the fuzzy 24 inch screen. The beer was salty and satiable on my
broken lips. The shouts of fury, anger and happiness were only magnified by his hand cradling me and his fingers
ever so slightly interlaced into mine. The obscenities and plebian post erotic […]
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Geneocide Over Tea by Seth Lagana
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
We watched as people walked by. She squinted at the sun. A breeze cooled the backs of our legs, and the
blossoming quad beckoned the buoyant spirits hibernating. Spring held certain promises. She wiped the hair from
her eyes and mouth. We heard wind chimes.
That’s all it takes.
She said the UN needs to send 26,000 peacekeepers to […]
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Doves by Brianna Thompson
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Peer outside
like a convict
peeking through the bars
squinting at the light.
Peer outside
and tell me that this
blinding snow
isn’t like
the forbidden sun
the freedom
that every prisoner
in every prison
looks at
Longingly.
tell me that something so beautiful
as the white Furling of a bare branch
isn’t something to reach for
and burn into your memory.
Tell me this brilliant snow
isn’t
kept from you
by a glass window
by the […]
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Seasonal Dreams by Rebekah Sharpe
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Snowflakes falling
Silently coating our world
Swiftly descending
Soft, yet briskly cold
Soothing, while sipping hot cocoa by the fire
Flowers peeking through ice patches
Fascinating the children with their determination to survive
Fear of being crushed under a careless foot
Finally blooming into beauteous things
Failing to make some stop and smell the roses
Laying in the sand
Letting your hair be swept up by […]
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Iowa by Ashley Dodge
May 9th, 2008 by Editor
Scattered plains and fields distance themselves
from Industrialization;
afternoon rain brings tornado warnings,
the towns are small but the land is wide.
Open to acceptance and unpopulated for miles,
filled with distant memories
evening hauntings surround the hills
leaving behind something quite unusual,
but yet comfortinghome.
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