Archive for May 2020
SKIN AND BONE by CJ
It’s dark but got moonlight I want to have you here It’s just a dream a lusting for someone I can never be with.. A come to my window you will never be able to climb in cause your just not real. There is no peace no stillness no rest Thats just how it is…
Read MoreWRECKING BALL By Laura Merritt
I visualize a wall through a fog. Just realized yesterday. Fog the new emotion. Hard to see myself with clarity. I must give up trying to find concrete answers, I think. The foundation was laid without intention. Self doubt, fear, discouragement, degradation, futility, valueless At first a cairn constructed of stones, piled dry. Later came…
Read MoreSEPARATED BY A WALL by Beth Haist
My roommate with no name I share a bed with him and his wife Separated by a wall Is tearing through on a riding mower It reminds me of the small boy I saw at Occupational Therapy yesterday Tokyo drifting happily On his big wheel With his mask on Yet his guy is mowing…
Read MoreLOVING this Me! By Lisa Johnson
This thigh-baring in public dyke. T-shirt: Legends Are Born In April (fuck yea we are) Compression socks poking from tops of well-worn slouch boots Me. Eyes blazing behind the mask. My steps out pace my new alluring scent of isopropyl and eye cream, like my beloved perfumes used to. Before this “whatever we will end…
Read MoreTHE BOX By Billie Sheara
It’s been a long journey. I was stuck for countless years. But I have learnt it’s not the start in life that counts, it’s not what happens that determines the future but how we deal with it. The box is opening unwrapping unfurling, The pressure and panic begining to ease. From the box within…
Read MoreTHE RELIGIOUS SILENCE by Jill Schoenemann
The selfish religious righteous Oh to tell the scathing story of silence Ignore the words Ignore the conversation starters If they don’t acknowledge what you said – do you exist? Of course you exist – Just not for them What? Am I invisible? Is my soul in danger, in your mind, of where I will…
Read MoreLIPSTICK by Bren Interlandi
When I was in my twenties, I began wearing lipstick for the first time to prepare for an interview to become an Account Executive for Clinique Cosmetics. After working in that industry for a few years I realized that I had grown quite fond of wearing lipstick and enjoyed discovering the beautiful shades and hues…
Read MoreUntitled by Fiona Goodwin
I thought about you last night, Your touch, your tyranny, You weren’t supposed to be the one, Everything about it was wrong, But I chose you in that moment Because I had never been loved The way you loved me. I thought about you last night The darkness of your eyes, The mischief in your…
Read MoreA NEW PATH FORMED OF FIRE by Rosella Gómez
A different kind of poem. No rhyme, just Words. Words that come from the depths of my soul. As I lay here all alone with all my thoughts, all my tears, of loss so true, so mighty it overwhelms me. And I look thru different eyes, for I have to, or I will melt away…
Read MoreWALLS by Lynn Finch
Walls are what we break through to get me and to you. And you to me. To get to them and to all of us ..no more walls it didn’t work in the past…no more walls and let’s learn to live at last.
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