Poetry Magazine

Flower Girl by Michael Lee Johnson Poems are hard to createthey live, then die, walk alone in tears,resurrect in family mausoleums.They walk with you alone in ghostly patterns,memories they deliver feeling unexpectedlythrough the open windows of strangers.Silk roses lie in a potted bowlmemories seven days before Mother’s Day.Soak those tears; patience is the poetry of… Read more

Mirror by Ann Lorraine Gabi We all are bornTo live as oneOur souls are tornWhere have we gone? And so we liveAs we are toldOf what to giveOur bodies sold Now is the timeLook for your otherYour inner rhymeThat burning desire All an illusionYou are a wholeNot a confusionBoth with one goal To be togetherYour… Read more

Adapted to War by J. Rylee D. I search for you at the bottom of the bottle,Only to be faced with my darkest regrets.Every remaining stain that I crave to forget. We were too young and immature.A plague for which there was no cure. But oh, it was exhilarating. Shockwaves of chaos rippled in our… Read more

After the Storm at Night by Daniel Fitzgerald Her eyes openedlike a revealing moonin a fractured sky,becoming brighterin its awakening. Staying in Touch by Daniel Fitzgerald Our hands glancearound the table,then, as if by accident,reach for the same glass.The rest of us laughat the coincidencewhile our fingers lingerwith each other,remembering other coincidences,other accidents,other times our… Read more

Racism by Ali Ashhar All are born equal,Yet some are deluded to be manipulated by hate,Not spurred by difference in ethnicity,Nevertheless, by deviation in ethics,Ethics that made him perceive ghastly,This racism pervading, deep below, doesn’t know any impunity. This malevolence not only compromise of colour,Someday it’s for religion,Someday it’s linguistical,Someday it’s for ethnicity,Someday it’s for… Read more

Meant for More by Rachita Praharaj Falling into the void of nothingness, Find it within you, The hope you seek in the world, Bind it to yourself, Live in the shattered shards of you, For there is a reflection of you, In each of them, Reflecting all that you are yet to be, Learn that… Read more

Love Letters to Decay by Ryan Drewes take me awayto that space and that placethe one amongst the treesthe one for you and metell me you’ll stayfor just another dayand maybe one morejust so we can playas the days pass us bythe more I wonder whenso I’ll keep writing you these wordsthat keep bleeding from… Read more

You Deserve to Love Yourself First by Kelsey Rojas You took root inside me,planted yourself sweetly by the daisies.Watered your roses every day-checked to make sure they grew. With a garden, so beautiful,roses growing up through my throat-blooming out of my eyes.All I could see was you. It wasn’t for months,until I started to feel… Read more

Depression Is by K. Exum Depression is that loud neighbor that you wish you didn’t live beside Depression is feeling like you’re having the best time of your life And then you start thinking about the old times Then you start to sigh You look in the mirror and start to think why Why is… Read more