A Poem By Nicholas Bruce A green and white bolt of pure energy streams down from nowhere, piercing the suffocating blackness that threatened to stay. There is now a shimmering quality to the room, and he has no idea where he is or what he was just doing. He sifts through the fog of amnesia, […]
Poetry
Persian Poetry: Eyes Must Be Rinsed
A Column By Mehdi Bagheri Eyes Must Be Rinsed I don’t know why they call Horse, a noble being? Pigeon, a pretty bird? And why no vulture is In anyone’s birdcage? Why a clover Is inferior to a red tulip flower? Eyes must be rinsed Something else must be seen Words must […]
neruda knows
A Poem By Juwayriya Bemath “…what spring does to the cherry blossoms…” ************** you picked at my thorns and resentment picked at me when you tried to force me to leave this darkened cavern of knuckles i call home. your vines grew into the spaces i found bare and deserted till you reached for my […]
Spring
A Poem By Nkwana Joshua this is how I welcome you – with flowers brooding in the yards, sun pulsating in wonder whispering and humming through our ears, we saw you moving our hearts to the hills we saw you chanting our names in laughter, we knew we have you when we saw you we […]
Beginning
A Poem By Tijana Šarac That it had been the end Never occurred to me For it was being buried And set free at once From every expectation Held against life None could rescue But neither imprison Me. What would become Of me If I were to let go Of it false hope, fair illusion […]
green sheen
A Poem By Roux Wessels and in the spring – when green and the absence of shivering nights becomes growth’s measure of water – i relax after every millimetre of rain thankfulness my only oblivious mantra throughout the seasons until a next winter – but long before the cold returns or frost creates a garden of […]
contrary
A Poem By Sarah Leck i know what you see this image of me has been crafted to reflect who i want to be hours of poring over Instagram models Googling the “right” outfits to wear i’m afraid all you see is really a mannequin i’d make excuses for my absence of being while being […]
Clover in July
A Poem By Melissa Sussens The clover is flowering; fields of sunshine glistening in the afternoon light. My dog bounds through crushing petals, leaves a trace of her existence. I sit on a nest of gold and green while she sniffs, following lifelines I cannot see. There is a breeze humming through the rows of trees. […]
flower/girl
A Poem By Nkateko Masinga wallflower wildflower once a seed nobody would admit to planting now you have grown and they all want to claim you as theirs even the ones who brought fire when you needed watering are here to marvel at your beauty don’t they see that your roots are made from the strings […]