In all our work I believe we should strive to make our writing as elegant and readable and beautiful as it possibly can be in its context, whether we’re crafting a lyrical poem or writing a letter to the company that unblocks our drains.
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Unleaf yourself beneath the Bois d’arc tree and let my chisel-tongue inscribe your bloom with glyphs, the cuneiform for vine and grape.
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The ensouled energy behind form invites us to experience beauty in its sublimest moments. Our breath is taken away, we are imperceptibly still, one with the cosmos.
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I remember seeing a golden tree out a third-floor window of a college building and not being able to move, turned to gold myself by its arresting beauty. Yes, I wrote a poem about it, and it was in the college literary magazine, also solidifying for me the connection between poetry & beauty.
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I try to capture the beauty and the silence that is omnipresent in the various subjects. There is a vastness in nature, something so many of us have lost a sense of in our urban living.
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To knead the breath of a single olive shoot
is the scent of silver-green,
cerulean winds toting Aegean brine
upon their tendrils,
your thirst for weeping sea
mixing memory with dreams devouring.
We were on our knees, my grandfather, my uncle and me and we each had an axe with a metal square on the opposite side of the blade. We used this to drive the nails into the tongue of the oak floor of the bakery.
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David Mason – Three Poems From the chapter “Davey’s Blue Monday” in...
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Jenny McBride Before the Wedding “Nobody sells eggbeaters anymore,” my mother said, her hand...
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K. Carlton Johnson – Six Photographs K. Carlton Johnson K. Carlton Johnson K. Carlton...
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Ed Higgins Grunion Fishing “Of course, most of the things I look back on fondly I never actually...
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Stephenson Muret Heart Tectonics Samantha came home different. Ken contemplated this. Just to the...
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Pat Hanahoe-Dosch – Three Poems What the Tide Brings: Surf clams and quahogs, horse mussels...
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Sharon Scholl – Three Poems The Subtleties of Distance As with stars, one against the other,...
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John Grey – Three Poems Completion Rate All complete. The pinkish charm of white clover...
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Kelly Cherry Aegea Eight hundred years: that’s how long it took to design and develop...
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Darren Demaree – Two Poems “You Try The Spirit By The Spirit” –...
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Jayne Marek – Poems and Photographs .Dippers The Wood Turner’s Shop, Itsukushima Framed by...
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Martin Golan Jane’s First Time Michael and Jane arrived at the inn both planning to end the...
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Toti O’Brien Pearls of Darkness I have bought her a bracelet. While I glanced at it...
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Martin Willitts Jr. – Four Poems Let Us Not Forget Based on...
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Robert E. Wood – Thora And The Philosophers: The Early Years Thora and Aristotle No...
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Beth Konkoski Grandpa Visits Nights when the wind is strong and memories steam like cocoa, my...
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Ira Joel Haber – Six Photographs Untitled Untitled Untitled Untitled Untitled...
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Matthew Friday – Three Poems The Unspilling Late October evening in Dresden a wintry...
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Charles Wyatt – Four Poems Grace Two cats summering under my neighbor’s dumpster. I...
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Tree Riesener – Three Poems in my room that night you collected bird song flowers all...
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Tricia Knoll – Two Poems Coloring Postcards Smorgasbord of mandalas, jellyfish and...
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Laura Foley – Three Poems Twice the Speed of SoundShe waves to me from the coach...
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Christine Jackson – Three Poems Clam Flats Heartache Before dawn, I prepare to wade the...
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