Wildflower By Bianca Alina

Wildflower By Bianca Alina Touch me. Make me become one with the fire.I will burn and burn,My flames will dance under your skinUntil you’re addicted to this delicious sin. Hide me in one of your most sensual poems,And write spring verses on my bosom.Love me hard,Make me bloom. I'm a wildflowerYearning for the dew of...

Ephemeral Encounters (Her Book of Words): A Book Review

https://michnavs.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/ephemeral-encounters-her-book-of-words-a-book-review/?page_id=13036 I have written over 500 pieces of love poetry in the course of my publication journey, and though it may look easy for some, I tell you it is one of the hardest poetry themes to write about. Having said that, I admire poets who never failed to amaze us with their enthusiasm in...

Hungry Dog by Dawn Pisturino

Hungry Dog by Dawn Pisturino My heartIs the bone you gnaw onLike a hungry dogRavenousBestialSavageThe raw meat of our union. AUTHOR'S BIO: Dawn Pisturino is a retired nurse in Arizona whose international publishing credits include poems, short stories, and articles. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, most recently in Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry...

«Locker» A Book Review by Dawn Pisturino

https://dawnpisturino.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/book-review-locker/?page_id=7625 This collection of poetic stories by Michelle Ayon Navajas touched my heart with its honesty and sincerity. She uses a school locker as a metaphor for the human heart and the feelings we lock away when a personal relationship falters due to fear, dishonesty, doubt, separation, love, friendship, longing, and frustrated desire. The stories...

Ghost Limbs by Nigel Byng, 2024

Ghost Limbs by Nigel Byng, 2024 Not everything in this life has an explanationIf you’re lucky enough, you get a do over in the reincarnationSome questions are best left alone I remember a time when “sudden death” used to be a sporting termLighting does strike twice; maybe thrice as bad news always comes in threes....

Lethal Toast by Joni Caggiano

Lethal Toast by Joni Caggiano sweet hour of love, you climb into my youthful pocketweariness finds you restless, you flirt merely to offendlike a child, eyes betray only you, I do not pretend selfish a pungent being, you sting the air from my lungsbruise the scent of the fresh laundry that hangs to dryyour smells...

Love in Our Hearts by Bernadette Gagtan Driza

Love in Our Hearts by Bernadette Gagtan Driza I just can't understand whyWhy do we have to say goodbyeWhen there's still a spark in our eyesWhen there's still love in our hearts Can't you see the sadness in my eyesWhen I tried to move onBlack clouds come running byBlocking my snapping mind And the days...

Listen to the Rain by Julie Dickson

Listen to the Rain by Julie Dickson pelting roof and trees staccato rhythm snare drum tattoo inexact percussion leaves one waiting for the next beat rapt anticipation AUTHOR'S BIO Julie A. Dickson is a Push Cart nominee, former poetry board member, former coordinator of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Guest editor of several publications and...

Poem to the Moon in Cypresses by Melissa Lemay

Poem to the Moon in Cypresses by Melissa Lemay Bittercrescent,why do you staywhen emerald greenmutes your shadow; hidden, blending intoelectric blue sky?Your stories,my stories over-shadowedby a promise,evergreen,curled intocoils. Artwork credit: Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh (1889), oil on canvas Author's Bio Melissa Lemay is a stay-at-home mother from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She never graduated college. She has...

I’m No Poetry Groupie by Barbara Leonhard & Nolcha Fox

I’m No Poetry Groupie by Barbara Leonhard & Nolcha Fox even though I loveto meet online withfellow poets, lovecollaborations.Words flow bestwhen I’m alone.Images turn intopoems whenthis old lonerbasks in hush. My poems are buried gems. I dig in silence searching for each one. I polish their rough contours.Hold them up to the light. Except for the reallybad poems.I hit them on the...

For You by Norj Joseph

For You by Norj Joseph I may not own youAnd your heart isn't mineBut I still ask the Almighty FatherComfort and joyNot for meBut for you You do love me wholeAnd my heart, you holdI ask the Almighty FatherStrength and peaceNot for youBut for me Author’s Bio Norj Joseph graduated with a degree in Journalism....

Take a Knee by Barbara Leonhard

Take a Knee by Barbara Leonhard Gently. No deep cuttingaround my old friend.For 72 years she’s held me up.Her and her partner. Taught me how topick up my legs. Drag my body from chair to chair. Till I walked againat age 7. After encephalitis tried tokill me. Leaving me in a wheelchair.She pulled me up...

The Stars Crossed the Zodiac by Miriam Costa

The Stars Crossed the Zodiac by Miriam Costa They were all made of crystals and fell into my imaginary world.Flowers were born with violet colors and jaguar eyes,They looked at me fixedly, they seemed to sway like my hair in the direction of the wind.The lightning started flashing psychedelic images that were not hidden in...

Déjà vu by Melissa Lemay

Déjà vu by Melissa Lemay You are the ghost ofthe man I never met—that somber feelingupon wakingin the middle of the night; the call beforethe sirenwailing throughthe fog and throughthe town; the moment right before the letdown.You’re the sight I seecrawl through the voidfrom the cornersof my eyes— the dark shadowatop the staircase;the feeling of...

Praying Mantis – Prose by Joni Caggiano

Praying Mantis - Prose by Joni Caggiano Some days, I unfasten the red and white box beneath the ruffles of my lover's bed. Like the elusive breath of a monarch, a hit of new life. She spreads her moist and crinkly wings after hatching in her identifiable way. She must be patient and wait for...