Poetry
Her Majesty by Anna Taylor
A flash of bronze alerts me to a very special visitor,
one that flaps majestically in the early morning dawn...
The Tree by Ay Garden
It was as winter licked my fingers.
I stood below the unending leaves
Of her Majesty, the grandest...
Litter Picking by Ay Garden
I stoop down to retrieve it
The leftovers of man...
Spring. by Suruthiga Tharson
The wind exhaled,
brushing my hair back in long breaths...
No Planet B by Christina Zhang
Now Mother Earth falls ill, temperature on the climb,
Sweat beads on her forehead, a paradigm's silent chime...
A Song for the Sirens by Michelle Yeboah
Long ago, sirens sang in the sea's depths
Dark hair flowed, lips parted in woeful songs...
Watery Boston by Bianca Mints
I know I'm heading up to Boston
when the wind no long rolls and tumbles in my hair...
Mother Bird by Lanna Wilson
When the sky had once been filled with geese,
Now we cover our birds in grease...
Adam's Techno-verse by Galen Cunningham
He sits in the corner writing numbers on
luminous walls full of gratuitous graffiti,
dreaming and speaking of the end times...
Eve's Modern Eden by Galen Cunningham
I built iced citadels with zinfandel that flowed
down frozen Babylonian goddesses and into
a drainage ditch where she can soak her feet...
Fields of Emerald Green by Niamh Marsons
2/17/24
As I wander through fields of emerald green,
flowers blooming beneath the sun's loving gaze
i ponder on the lives that have been...
Her Eyes by Kaila Balazs
1/21/23
Her eyes are brown in their own gorgeous way,
They sparkle like a sunset at the end of a long day...
Hydrogen, Ocean by Elizabeth Davies
12/29/23
You were my oxygen,
Helping me to live every day of my life,
Helping me to love you...
I Exist in a Flower Field, A Dandelion, Bird Chatter by London Dernis
12/29/23
I exist in a flower field
Where roses bloom
And the bees buzz...
Fumes By Seleste
12/29/23
Isn't it great, the trucks we drive.
They give us the freedom that we crave.
How simple it is to start the ignition.
How simple it is...
Blood Stems (Contrapuntal) By Digby Ives O'Brien
12/29/23
The heart never stops
The bleeding,
Pumps of chemical saviours,
Infections of paper red
Upon the surface...
Waters That Breathe Deeply & Our Noise & Ocean Sound by Aubrey Lewis
12/28/23
Through the cerulean drapery
And past the ruffles of foam,
There are dancers in the deepest places...
Shades of Crimson by Vicky Liu
11/20/23
On the bus, I saw one of the Translink poetry entries on an ad slot
It was incredibly lazy. You could interchange 'bush meat' and 'powwows' for any other cultural buzzword and it's identity would still lay bare and skin deep.
The Shore by Mariam Elshamy
10/21/23
I was here long before you
It whispers in my ear
I trembled and boiled when the sun was a squalling child...
Splintered Affection by A-In Choi
8/11/23
You lay your head against my skin
‘I need you,’ you had whispered into me
So I fed you wildberries that painted your grin...
Megan Kazembe
8/11/23
Death, an abundance of free-flying fireflies,
Glistening, glowing, their dance surreal.
They prance and perch in twilight skies,...
Chloe Wilson
8/1/23
I want to sit in the champagne gardens,
where the roses
are frost-tipped and...
What a World by Aino Kummola
Our destiny is to be alive not fight against the lungs that carry us in this world,
We ought to see beauty, but we desire to see compassion in our filth,...
Mother's Food by Marwa Bhuiyan
7/27/23
Her countenance is one of vigilance as she adorns the table with her grace; I, meanwhile,
endeavor to place my heart into her keeping...
Ecstasy's Combative Noise by Marwa Bhuiyan
7/27/23
The symphony that permeates the grace of her existence and the peculiar force of
self-indulgence, discharged through a grander vibration — it cannot be prescribed...
Riches of This Forest by Marwa Bhuiyan
7/27/23
The turbulence entailed by the gulls who chant above — their capsizing strength, evidenced by
the mass of the conformative's devotion below
The Snatched Limbs by Marwa Bhuiyan
7/27/23
At the center of my speech is a dye of gimmick — an unidentified myth of crippling bliss emerges
to depict the concealed torment of my tongue...
Three Hours of Lost Merit by Marwa Bhuiyan
7/27/23
The projected shadow of hesitation morphs my footsteps into a fiend of tremors — following my
voyage beyond, quivering at the melody of rapturous triumph...
Good Old Times by Hazel Alexander
7/21/23
I look around me,
and I can't catch a single eye
and as another person sighs
their eyes engrossed on a screen...
The Monster by Marly Ehab
7/21/23
Pollution, the monster that devours
Slowly consuming out earth, hour by hour
We fail to notice until it's too late...
It Doesn't Matter by Jana Kassem
7/21/23
It doesn't matter.
What we once thought was forever is a dream to the future.
What have we done!...
We're all Just Jellyfish by Brooke Heritage
7/18/23
We're all just jellyfish
Luminescent and bright but you can see right through us
We're complex creatures
Going with the flow
Riding the waves...
An Ode to my Home by Lauren Blackwelder
7/18/23
My home lays in the woods, among ancient
Trees that kiss the sky; dancing in the breeze.
Beneath their branches live wise kind creatures.
An elk whose antlers stretch towards the sun,
Like spring's first fresh flower; bright and gentle...
Intertwined by Lauren Blackwelder
7/18/23
Two budding souls are born in the Spring;
Their roots are intertwined, grown from the stars
Rising to summer skies, whilst the birds sing,
Such life and beauty had from Earth's scars...
Seasons of Change by Lauren Blackwelder
7/18/23
Winds of Spring
The first breath of Spring,
One of gentle wind in morn;
Reminds me of you...
Nature Fights by Mackenzie Reynolds
7/18/23
Mother Nature watches from afar as we chop her trees, she weeps as we kill her sea, she panics as the sky fills with debri, and she rages at the fires we have created...
Betrayal by Lynn Swett
7/18/23
Betrayal
They banish you for berating it
Their society which belittles you for being who you are
Which besmirches you for boldness...