the day is tired
lays down and opens its heart
and all the colors
of each beautiful moment
that transpired today bleed out
Lisa Paul has been writing since she was a girl. She has been published in Aurora Magazine, a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College magazine of literature and art. She is also a paralegal. Lisa enjoys writing, her family and her home.
Her blog: https://Lisaapaul.home.blog
Another broken heart barely mended.
Not a cause for celebration.
This one calls for a cool, sarky snarl.
Another stump.
Another stain.
Another story.
Barely bearable.
Barely true.
But we don’t judge here.
We just live.
Britta Benson is a German circus performer, writer and linguist, thriving in Scotland since the year 2000. She writes a daily blog (‘Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland‘), teaches Gaelic, runs a creative writing group, The Procrastinators, and facilitates creative writing workshops both online and in person. She has published a lyrical memoir, ‘Where my grief sits and how it travels’, and an experimental blackout novel, ‘Love in Time’.
One day soon they’ll try to dig up your dreams.
Of course, you’ll be dead by then
and unable to protect them
anymore.
They’ll let you rest in peace, but not your dreams
and there are flakes of gold hidden there.
I hope they don’t find them.
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award.
https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
quiet is my life
the big sounds don’t come out now
they echo inside
a peaceful mountain
just a wisp of steam it hides
molten emotions
Lisa Paul has been writing since she was a girl. She has been published in Aurora Magazine, a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College magazine of literature and art. She is also a paralegal. Lisa enjoys writing, her family and her home.
Her blog: https://Lisaapaul.home.blog
and in that moment
when reality crystalizes
concentrates
rock solid
around a heart
remember that this
is a game
you agreed to play
and no matter how far
you can flex
crook and stretch
nothing in this life
is unbreakable
for a reason.
Britta Benson is a German circus performer, writer and linguist, thriving in Scotland since the year 2000. She writes a daily blog (‘Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland‘), teaches Gaelic, runs a creative writing group, The Procrastinators, and facilitates creative writing workshops both online and in person. She has published a lyrical memoir, ‘Where my grief sits and how it travels’, and an experimental blackout novel, ‘Love in Time’.
I have dreams
which can take me anywhere
and take you with me
to places you haven’t been
and may not want to go,
that can send us spinning
to an indeterminate end
which you cannot control.
.
But then, neither can I.
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award.
https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/
As quiet as the sunrise,
your love glows for me,
gentle fingers of warmth and light
reach for me, pull me
from the darkness. Your eyes
are the morning stars,
they say, I am here,
I will always find you,
faithful as the sun.
Lisa Paul has been writing since she was a girl. She has been published in Aurora Magazine, a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College magazine of literature and art. She is also a paralegal. Lisa enjoys writing, her family and her home.
Her blog: https://Lisaapaul.home.blog
plaited between a past
.
something is breaking
.
I will have to write it down
describe a new thin element
.
I will lead it
home
Britta Benson is a German circus performer, writer and linguist, thriving in Scotland since the year 2000. She writes a daily blog (‘Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland‘), teaches Gaelic, runs a creative writing group, The Procrastinators, and facilitates creative writing workshops both online and in person. She has published a lyrical memoir, ‘Where my grief sits and how it travels’, and an experimental blackout novel, ‘Love in Time’.
A minute is such a minute thing, a sliver in the grand scheme of time .
We are flickering shadows on life’s stage; candles burning feeble flames, staving off the night.
Each moment is ephemeral, transient eternity, meant to be savored before it slips away.
Memories are amber, the mind’s way of preserving our precious past,
As day fades gently into night, the dandelion fluff of experience catches the wind and drifts away.
They float like pale ghosts into the future, seeking fertile soil in which to take root.
Sarah Dodd a.k.a. Not All Who Wander Are Lost, can be found at musingsbydoddzilla.org
For some to nurture is their nature,
meant to be parents, friends, lovers,
always the first called when tragedy arrives,
first to come when a child cries,
first to care while the lonely abide
because we know they — you offer comfort
right when I need you the most.
Bartholomew Barker works with Living Poetry. He has published a full-length collection, a chapbook and been nominated for a Pushcart and the Best of the Net. His work has recently appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others. www.bartbarkerpoet.com
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