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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Love is being able to hold the pain with the love
By Eileen Nittler — There was no calm place, only the cruel bodyguards of grief—anger, sorrow, confusion, hopelessness. I settled for
Oct 2, 2024
Conditional Love
By Carolyn Martin — I’m conditioned to follow Rumi’s advice to sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when you arrive with the latest
Aug 19, 2024
LOVE IN THE TIME OF 40 ROSEBUSHES
By Elizabeth Lewis — There are things you cannot know about life, with its relentless cycles and imperatives until you have been burned to
Aug 12, 2024