Love like winter skies
By Royal W Rhodes — Sometimes the host beckoned inside to warm a moment, a little while, like a poem's brief address and then the door
Mar 21
A Silent Conversation: Ice Cream in the Sun
By Liz Roddin — The pint of ice cream was getting low, and we still hadn’t spoken. As I spooned, I looked at his downcast eyes and decided I
Jan 22
HOW TO KNOW IF SOMEONE LOVES YOU?
By David James — You may find someone staring at you when you glance up from washing dishes, and they smile. They may bring you a hot tea
Jan 8
My Dear Angel of The Internet
By H.L. Dowless — My angel of the internet, she lives among the wires. I endeavor to move as close to her as I can get. I type the keypad
Jan 2
I Am Alone
By Linda Leedy Schneider — I am naked in my own house now. Once I lived on a wide river with a man, my husband of over 50 years. We often
Dec 17, 2024
This poem as a wish
By Ron Riekki — As a couples counselor who is a single, I daily wish I could exist with the bliss of struggle, of fighting for love,
Oct 15, 2024
The Why of Abandonment
By Pamela OHara — This day is dedicated to you, but you are not here. The only thing that I wanted from my father was that he be here.
Oct 8, 2024
Love is being able to hold the pain with the love
By Eileen Nittler — There was no calm place, only the cruel bodyguards of grief—anger, sorrow, confusion, hopelessness. I settled for
Oct 3, 2024
Conditional Love
By Carolyn Martin — I’m conditioned to follow Rumi’s advice to sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when you arrive with the latest
Aug 20, 2024
LOVE IN THE TIME OF 40 ROSEBUSHES
By Elizabeth Lewis — There are things you cannot know about life, with its relentless cycles and imperatives until you have been burned to
Aug 13, 2024
INTERTWINED
By Faith Canright — Your flavor of easy lies, lover of my deepest heart. Our fragrance of stolen time. Passion grows in lush green eyes
Jul 26, 2024
A thousand small happinesses a day
By Loretta Iwaniw-Horne — We're talking about nothing in particular. I tell him that I stuffed up my knee. It needs surgery, but I don't
May 2, 2024
Under the moon
By Principe Guity Jr — Kissing under the ascending moon as it climbs from behind is the lover's dream. It streams in my mind, as if I had a
Apr 22, 2024
A Love Prayer By An Unbeliever
By Royal Rhodes — Help me see the stars, remembered fire, seraphic furnaces that showed our fault, when chance or fate, or even our desire,
Mar 14, 2024
A CROW'S WOMAN
By John Grey — The crows won't let me go to sleep. Aamong them—who would have thought it?—was Suzanne. And in Providence? And my once and
Feb 18, 2024
Old apple tree & compass points
By Colin Ian Jeffery — There is an apple tree where I often go and sit beneath and if I listen very heard, I hear my brother's happy cries
Feb 7, 2024
Your nectar
By Sandip Saha — I am amazed in your beauty. It is the touch stone to forget the predicament in the well of life in which I have fallen
Nov 14, 2023