I have taken comfort from the cold There has been the nullification of much Truth has been powerful Lies have become obvious Completion is in everything past Sleep has been real as with rest Tomorrow is cut in half yet it always grows The night descends like cocoon Overcast skies are beautiful Love for family … Continue reading The Blanket This Year: James Adamson
Category: poetry
Urgently: Elton Plett
I cry out to you after I know you hear The peace that surrounds you Finds me here Speaking only the truth to be told Another story to soothe my soul Sampling sin we telling fools Another page turned lights a fuse Urgently loving you always Rescue me I think I’m falling To all those … Continue reading Urgently: Elton Plett
Hell-mare: Cory Buchanan
Lava tinged flickers, by the lantern room, swell soundlessly in unpaired horror. A thrum hammers in chest Scattered words rummage in slithering murmurs. Low hoarse moans launch from the shaded profile lurching with bent posture. Propped in the hall, all slams pitch dark, roaring with creaks. Falling to the baseboards, a pulse glows in retina … Continue reading Hell-mare: Cory Buchanan
Perpetual Motion: Cassandra Kulay
The strain of reaching, a resting place, Verging on parody, this will disappear Like scraps of paper from little black Books, the days I spend staring at Pictures of made lives and realize the Process, arduous dying had energy Once, until it was deprived of will And cause and cursed, it was a Hallow balance, … Continue reading Perpetual Motion: Cassandra Kulay
My Joyful Poem About Crying: C.K.
a single tear falls and with it hope grows for within the drop exists the knowledge that this isn't the ways things "should" be the emotions felt and conflict fought within are for the hope of a new day are for the hope of the ability to stop crying stop grieving stop hating that which … Continue reading My Joyful Poem About Crying: C.K.
The Look: C. Fay Shlanda
Look. Really look. Take your time. You can see my height, weight, eye colour, and more. My physical body is easy to see. What you may have missed is my physical being. Watch as I describe it. Witness the tapping of my foot, as it shakes its way through my nervousness. Notice the constant movement … Continue reading The Look: C. Fay Shlanda
Deity
You called me a deity The night you worshipped me Placing me high in the skies Where I could see eternity You gave me so much energy You called me an angel You gave me divinity And placed me in between The moons and the suns There in the stars I became a constellation Beaming … Continue reading Deity
Smile For You
Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu When someone smiled at me today, I started Smiling too. I passed around the corner, and someone saw My grin. When he smiled, I realized, I’d passed it on To him. I thought about that smile, then I realized Its worth. A single smile, just like … Continue reading Smile For You
Jesus is the Reason for the Season
Let us celebrate! It's Christmas time again, here in Winnipeg City. Our colourful lights shine bright and strong, pretty. Cook the goose; we all hang loose. We kneed the bread, jump out of bed. We gather round the Christmas tree: Tiny lights, tinsel, bulbs, and angel hair. Touch, be, feel, believe in the real you … Continue reading Jesus is the Reason for the Season
Resilience
When the truth smiles at you and says you have to wait years have gone by and tomorrow is still the same everyone has lied, it seems, but the truth that makes you wait is still yours crows land in a church yard while you wait love pounds in the paper and electricity vision sees … Continue reading Resilience
