Word Search
By Deborrah Corr — The word couldn’t be found in the house. Maybe it hid between glass jars of peaches on the pantry shelf. Or stuck itself like a wad of
Jan 24
Love has no beginning or end
By Linda M. Crate — Maybe one day I will find my people, the ones who love with a love beyond love. Because my love has always been unconditional and
Dec 14, 2025
A weird superpower
By Elizabeth Walker — To this day, so many years after Trish left, Beth can feel as close to a random motherless stranger as she does to her own brother.
Dec 3, 2025
My love for you is deep…
By Pulkita Anand — My love for you is deep, majestic and passionate. Like an ocean, it’s unfathomable. It is unbounded. The waves of my heart want to hold you. My thoughts are drowned in
Nov 7, 2025
Vietnam Letters
By Karol Nielsen — My father was in ROTC at the University of Nebraska where he was a chemical engineering student. After graduating, he became a
Jul 15, 2025
Wildly Alive
By Lana Hechtman Ayers — My grandmother lived in a tenement. When I enter the graffitied hallway of her building, it reeked of human urine and
Jul 10, 2025
SONG FOR ANDY
By Vicki L W Graff — I hear a voice inside me sayin’ that Andy’s never comin’ home. I fold my hands and sit here prayin' that he's okay. The voice is wrong.
Jul 4, 2025
Reaching old age
By Colin Ian Jeffery — Time fleeting in its passing, spurring memories, recalling images of long ago when life seemed endless, safe from death's stalking
Jun 21, 2025
BRIDGE BETWEEN
By Nina Rubinstein Alonso — The first meet-the-family-dinner was silent and awkward, silverware clicking and clacking, but afterwards Peter’s brother
May 14, 2025
The Colors of Love
By Marc Audet — What is the color of your love? Is it warm pink, like moist lips right before a first kiss? Or is it the hot red you feel when you are about to lose
Apr 20, 2025
Love like winter skies
By Royal W Rhodes — Sometimes the host beckoned inside to warm a moment, a little while, like a poem's brief address and then the door
Mar 20, 2025
A Silent Conversation: Ice Cream in the Sun
By Liz Roddin — The pint of ice cream was getting low, and we still hadn’t spoken. As I spooned, I looked at his downcast eyes and decided I
Jan 22, 2025
HOW TO KNOW IF SOMEONE LOVES YOU?
By David James — You may find someone staring at you when you glance up from washing dishes, and they smile. They may bring you a hot tea
Jan 8, 2025
My Dear Angel of The Internet
By H.L. Dowless — My angel of the internet, she lives among the wires. I endeavor to move as close to her as I can get. I type the keypad
Jan 2, 2025
I Am Alone
By Linda Leedy Schneider — I am naked in my own house now. Once I lived on a wide river with a man, my husband of over 50 years. We often
Dec 17, 2024
This poem as a wish
By Ron Riekki — As a couples counselor who is a single, I daily wish I could exist with the bliss of struggle, of fighting for love,
Oct 14, 2024
The Why of Abandonment
By Pamela OHara — This day is dedicated to you, but you are not here. The only thing that I wanted from my father was that he be here.
Oct 8, 2024