poetry
i imagined these words even before I wrote them
that for instance there would be two lines for each stanza
that i would now be reading on the second stanza
as if i saw the poem even before it happened
when it happened after the children played and signified over the
world of grown-ups
when it happened after voices burst in [...]
Edwin M. Cordevilla is an avant-garde poet based in the Philippines. He is the author of Phoenix and Other Poems, published in the year 2000. His second book of poems entitled, The Occasions of Air, Fire, Water will be launched in Manila this year.
In an art forum, Cordevilla described his passion for poetry as his communion with the universal soul and with the common man as well. “Poetry appreciation is a blessing from the heavens above that should not be confined among the elites, but should be relished by, as much as possible, anyone.”
ANALOGY
(Seeing humanity through the eyes of a Hawk)
Don’t be troubled, vox populi has little
Effect on my cognitive state. Especially
Those bitter words and opinions disgorged
By nosy parkers, tattletales, and rumormongers,
Meant to malign, belittle, slander, and just plain
irritate the recipient.
I have learned from experience to pursue only
What sustains life. And in so doing I can reciprocate
In like fashion to [...]
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist. His art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Public Literature, Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to . . .
The hollow beat of thunder
Arises in my chest;
Voltage brings up heartbeats,
They say it’s for the best.
Whisper me: “it’s over”,
But only just begun,
Inside me all I think is that
He’s handing me the gun.
Plug me in, keep me up,
It’s all I need right now;
Another day to question why,
When and who and how?
There’s nothing more he can do
For [...]
Katalyn Louis Parks is a 19 year old writer from Liverpool, England, currently studying Film and Journalism at university. She is a poet primarily but also writes journalistic essays and articles, screenplays and short stories. She has won several poetry competitions as well as having had a screenplay in production.
http://klouisparks.wordpress.com
I had of your warmth
and blush
like a senior boy with the melancholy of departure
mind quivering in the border of love and light
with drowned voices had buried at the bottom of separate ways
never have a woman’s cry never had a woman outcry
to come out toward my shadows and be so sweet of surrender
of whispering and haunted [...]
I was born in Kalimnos island ,Greece. I have an
Associate in Arts from Dekalb College, Atlanta, Ga.
I travel to the Greek islands and write poetry using imagination to deconstruct language.
The subjects of Sea,Self,and Beauty are my favored poetry.
Every loss accepted,
This, my weakest path,
The earth begins to crumble
I’m feeling sorrow’s wrath.
A bridge that can’t support me
Becomes my promised route.
Promises that withered
Prior to this pursuit.
Tiring words are spoken,
Shattering emotion.
A simple dream, not started
And I’m tired of the notion.
The notion that I’m right,
That love doesn’t exist,
That numbness accompanies
Even when I’m kissed.
Katalyn Louis Parks is a 19 year old writer from Liverpool, England, currently studying Film and Journalism at university. She is a poet primarily but also writes journalistic essays and articles, screenplays and short stories. She has won several poetry competitions as well as having had a screenplay in production.
http://klouisparks.wordpress.com
Love between two as it should be
Written in the Tanka form
5-7-5-7-7
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist. His art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Public Literature, Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to . . .
the window offers a view
beyond the horizon I want to see,
where life continues.
trees, birds, clouds – God’s creations
just like me but not for eternity,
foreverness,
for long.
Maybe for a while, until life’s certainty
takes over
and ends.
But the stain on the carpet
remains.
Rebecca Lerwill was born and raised in Germany. She moved to the United States in 1995. Her debut novel 'Relocating Mia', a romantic suspense, recieved honors as a finalist in the USA Book News, Best Book Awards in 2007.
Rebecca resides close to the Wasatch Mountains in Utah and balances her time between writing and her horses.
Her current work can be followed on her website
www.rebeccalerwill.com
Six eager eyes follow me, three
tails gyrate and the middle one
called a pure mountain feist
nibbles, eats only a few bites.
Later as I pack up holiday
clutter, her eyes flutter,
legs stiffen. All goes blank.
Seizures and sickness to
delayed house training these
unwanted ones take us
in, becoming our universe.
I am Saturn; they the rings.
I am a rock wishing hard
for a [...]
Marge Fulton has lived in ten different states. Home is where your heart is, and Hazard is the home she says she always wanted. She and her husband have been there for almost twenty years! Marge recently retired from teaching Special Education in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Burn out is such a reality of that field; she says it hit her like a forest fire! Her degrees are from Florida State and Eastern Kentucky University. She has written a truckload of poetry and short fiction. Her work has been published in Appalachian Heritage, Now and Then, Grab-a-Nickel, Old Hickory Review, Pegasus and . . .
The first snow of
the season lay two
floors below, and as
he glanced out into
the night sky he caught
sight of a star twinkling
off in the distance.
He momentarily closed
his eyes and like a desperate
quarterback threw a Hail Mary
pass out into the night, hoping
for its completion – a plea – [...]
Dawn Wilson was born in Connecticut, but now resides in Milan Italy with her two daughters, where she teaches English as a foreign language.
She has written several short stories and poems which have been published online and in print. She enjoys utilizing the power of brevity in her writing.
Her first novel, Autumn Leaves, made it's debut in October of last year and she is currently working on her second novel, due out some time later this year.
There’s always been
that unnamable but familiar
something within you
that I knew was mine.
It stirs interstitially
within my being,
whirling and pulsating
between my tissues,
radiating outward -
magnetically searching
to connect with that part of itself
residing in you.
It seeks completeness
- potentiality fulfilled -
and when you’re too far away
it retreats into the ground of me
patiently waiting to reemerge [...]
Artist, writer and environmental educator, Gianetta Ellis is the creator of stewARTship studios where she "incorporates art to stewardship" by using the fine arts as a means for students to build enduring connections to self and nature. Ellis is the author of Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads, which advances a unique approach to ecopsychology by demonstrating how ecologic tenets can guide us in our effort to live the highest expression of an authentic life.
