What is the name of that little inter-tidal creature that looks so innocent and inviting until you drop a bit of something into it and it clamps shut and grinds it up for food. The dead ones have bits of white shell in their bottoms that were once the skeletons of wandering life that became … Continue reading The Beach: Jim Beckta
Category: Poets
Containment Inside, To the Glory or God, To Gwyneth, with Love: James Adamson
It’s like you’re free in my arms Light lightly feather light Sing singingly feather bird Give life air through the window bird Bird of tomorrow window Make swimmingly the song, the heart Singingly you’re in my arms Work hard physical life holding Freedom work of forming rest Loving deep among the sky Sway dance tree … Continue reading Containment Inside, To the Glory or God, To Gwyneth, with Love: James Adamson
Tired Poem: Fern Barthelette Jr.
I am so sleepy that my eyes Feel like heavy rocks that hurt And ache for some sleep Sleep is broken and hard to maintain Also when you are tired you Do kooky things that you giggle at, but It drives other people mad, mad I say So this is my tired poem.
Replay that Tape: Stephen Sigurdson
Sometimes when I feel the darkness it helps me to go back to my childhood, remembering a time when I would dream. I would play, I felt accepted, and a security, no matter how beaten up I feel now, that period in my life is somewhere I can escape. It is there, I can remember … Continue reading Replay that Tape: Stephen Sigurdson
A New Beginning: Melody Chepil
A New Beginning So much to feel. All at one time Overwhelmed with hurt and pain. Aching all over. Breaking away from the past. Starting again. Oh my heart. Oh my soul. All that is within thee Makes with rejoicing. Why rejoice? There is too much sorrow. But turning the page; that is a triumph
Suddenly, My Body: Megan Tyler
spring’s silk laying beside cherry red cheeks, shy bitten lips the sweet harmonic sounds awaken to the sunlight’s shower a tree stump with roots sprouting out her blushing heart pounces tamed under the smile distinct and clear palms of lines of road maps crossing into one another Suddenly, my body is Alice’s Wonderland not a … Continue reading Suddenly, My Body: Megan Tyler
A Thousand Years: Jordan Derksen
I was on a road trip across the country when I stopped in a little village and met with a medicine man. I asked him if he could tell me my purpose in life. I felt dismayed because on this road trip I was to find myself. He shook a bag of bones, blew some … Continue reading A Thousand Years: Jordan Derksen
Riots in Vancouver – A Prayer: Jason Cheung
Mayhem! Riots in Vancouver! Police cars ablaze; Store windows broken. Many injured, many more places trashed and looted. Chaos ensues in a city of sin devilry at worst? I prayed that it wasn’t so. Because we lost a hockey game, the flares insinuate and perpetuate. The fire of hell and hatred so strong, that they … Continue reading Riots in Vancouver – A Prayer: Jason Cheung
I'll Be Crying: James Adamson
To the Glory of God To Gwyneth with Love There’s more than one way we return to our early days Our submission is one Our irrelevant anger; the grey that comes from destruction The murder that comes from the past; Untreatable, uncommunicated pain is anther I’ve heaved with tears Some will tell people the resurrection … Continue reading I'll Be Crying: James Adamson
Melody: Gerald Herron
The words and years left unspent, I now confess to you, in the hopes you are listening in your kingdom of blue. For I now come with roses and this poem in hand, to realize the mistakes I have made as a man. For the greying silver now passes through these aging doors; and I … Continue reading Melody: Gerald Herron
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