In the ocean of eyes, yours like a late summer pond, sunlight and darkness uniting, take me by surprise. How did I live not even knowing that I was waiting for you, not knowing that your slow-burning embers next to me, to me trembling to be with you, could make for such longing, such whole-hearted [...]
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Maybe Baby? by Wendy Reichental
There are two things I hate getting in the mail. One is my Visa statement and the second… an invitation to someone’s Baby Shower! I am not talking about your typical familial one or a close friend, but it’s one of those obligated to go to acquaintance or work colleague situation where you are not [...]
Word Search by Penny Luker
The tutor plants the tiny seeds; words to dissect and analyse. Group discussion grows fresh phrases. Poignant thoughts fight hard to breathe, struggle through the dark abyss. Withered words are secateured. Paragraphs send their green shoots and ideas propagate the screen, to become white printed petals. Painful pruning, carefully done tidies the straggly manuscript and [...]
Tree of Growth by Shelly Wiseberg
Beauty in Autumn Colorful leaves Rainbow in trees Gracefully dance With flecks of gold Shining iridescently Floating onto sacred ground In silence of earthly peace Tree of life branches out Embracing family history Connecting hearts Through all seasons of change Past to present solving mystery Strengthens love forever binding In solid oak of memory Shelly [...]
Birth of a Mother by Alexandra Ernst
Something had to bend, to change. In the heat of an island, a miracle of desire spun through me while you, wrapped in your watery cocoon, clung to the web of my body. Had I known you were there, I would have wept with joy, but that would come soon enough. Undeterred by the odds, [...]
Coming Back to You by Tamara Palmer
The humid, salt air seeped into Tracy’s nose, waking up the portion of her brain that processed childhood memories — the part that she’d purposely let fall into a quiet slumber for the last month. She walked uncomfortably in her skin, the memories of her and Shauna as kids on this beach in South Jersey [...]
What She Carried by Donna Vorreyer
A burden to labor so long, to feed with her body and water with her blood, this harvest that betrays her, that feigns growth and then retreats, bowed by wind or sharp tongues of rain, a force more powerful than her puny will. A burden to labor so long and yield only this – the [...]
Prune Harvest by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Torpid as a slug crawling on concrete, fuggy cloud wrapped around my sticky limbs, I sit breathless in September heat. Watch black-haired men with sun-darkened skin crawl in their giant machines across Mill Creek bridge over summer-starved water and algae. White pickups begin and end the procession. Next comes a flat-bed loaded with shaker, then [...]
Knock on the doorby Patricia Wellingham-Jones
A clang on the metal trout nailed to our wooden door snaps me to attention You bring us tomatoes from your September garden and a few burgundy cockscombs clutched in your large male hand You feel bad that both are late and smaller than they should be We both know nature does what she wants [...]
Tissue Paper Flowers by Penny Luker
Sweet peas cling to their climbing frame, a shower of mauve, pink and blue. Flowers emit their pure perfume in this enchanting view. The tangled stems daily produce a harvest of scented delight, like delicate tissue paper, natural, beautiful, bright. A small bunch tied with silken string will say more than words ever say, and [...]
Allotment Bounty by Penny Luker
We joined our neighbours for a feast to celebrate natures yearly gifts and ate homemade carrot soup. Large jacket potatoes filled plates, decorated with sweet tomatoes, and topped with fresh crisp coleslaw. The sun stayed up late warming us and pale elderberry wine cleared minds while garden chatter murmured. Plump fresh strawberries brought delight and [...]
Our Autumn by Stacy Lynn Mar
It is the time of year When October steals the daylight. The stars shine a little brighter, The air more crisp than usual, Filled with pine and pollen And absent that forlorn sting Winter always brings With it’s snow flakes and Christmas lights. Yes, autumn arrives In her orange pumpkins And trick-or-treaters, The piles of [...]
Enough by Carmen Eichman
I am learning to cultivate the art of nothing, to be still as a chandelier pendant in its crystal beauty and know I, too, am lovely in the sunlight of being. I cannot keep back the weeds, some good, some not of nuances and negotiations between greed and global leaders, the disparity between wealth and [...]
Small Boxes Closing by Stacy Lynn Mar
Yesterday is a small box closing Upon each one of my bones, those warriors. Primitive, I am a shadow of the woman ancestor Who sanctioned for me parts of herself. Small hands, those tiny caterpillars that bloomed And grew and wrinkled, and held on till time broke. Bright blue eyes, wishing specters, unwilling participants To [...]
Autumn Hair by Wendy Reichental
Autumn is obviously a time of change and that’s why I choose to initiate this season, with a trip to the hair salon. For me nothing signifies a fresh start more than a new stylish cut and a shiny new hue. I like to rationalize that a change to my outer image will have a [...]
Karma Boy Karma Girl by Sarah Herrington
She searched the Island, from the Bronx to the Seaport, for something as spectacular as inspiration or Love. Inspiration she found flowing in a trickle under the tracks of the F line on 14th Street. Love remained more mysterious, though she searched high as the Empire State and low as the tunnel between 2nd and [...]
Ghost Story by Amber Decker
the soft torch of her life he burned down steadily year after year until she was just a jack-o-lantern flicker tiptoeing through the dry whisper of midnight corn full moon slung low curved like a sickle the horned owl with folded wings watched her passage into freedom’s catacombs with yellow eyes many skies had grown [...]
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