Poetry

Poetry·Elizabeth Merchant — Nothing to do Just me and you Everyone is through Just me and you Down is light Day is dark Night is right One + one Is half a ton

Poetry·Elizabeth Merchant — “Let me sleep” I say “I’m in the clouds Today” “Let me rest” I state “I’m in the grass It’s great” “If I wake Who knows When I will see...

Poetry·Lyra Rivera — My brain is a stew When I need something It is at the bottom When I don’t It is at the top Sometimes it is in the middle Through a...

Poetry·Daniel Shorten — A clock contemplates its endless mechanical existence, questioning why humans created it to mark time in perpetual, lonely repetition.

Poetry·Steven Cavros — An abstract meditation on the invisible and forgotten, those who lived and died without being seen or remembered by the living.

Poetry·Alice Robinson-McVety — A found silver button with a swirl pattern becomes a portal to imagined water, its unknown owner haunting the speaker's meditation on the small, lost object.

Poetry·Zaid Nazif — A child catalogs each family member's hair color through vivid comparisons, lingering longest on their mother's dreamlike blonde strands.

Poetry·Lucy Watkins — A morning meditation watches rain drizzle down at dawn, moving from gray darkness to pink and yellow sky, finding joy through a window.

Poetry·Lucy Watkins — Two figures with umbrellas sit together in a rainy night until one leaves, then returns, as the natural world responds to their movements.

Poetry·Svitra Rajkumar — A poem observes how a duck's serenity triggers envy, then flips perspective to reveal the observer as the ugly duckling and the duck as the swan.