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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Jon Wesick

Loaded with hawks’ cries and horses’ huffs
Ennio Morricone’s score wails

Paula R. Hilton

When the genie appears, I’m in a frivolous
mood. First request? My mom’s apple pie.

Alice Huntley

slack in a bag from the freezer aisle
shaken out like shrunken grey memes
I long for the podding of beans

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

Clive Donovan

I go to the top of the risen hill,
above the trees, beyond the grass,
where only hard ground lives

Previously featured

Mana Misaghi

we make sure to pack a deck of cards for the train, or a sunday afternoon visit to the park. the cards will give our hands something tangible to do . . .

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Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Recent Haiku

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

Chen-ou Liu

this fresh morning
so much like the others …
yet starlings shape-shift

Stephen C. Curro

calm river
again, his fishing line
caught on a tree

Diane Webster

lightning flashes
everyone stands
still

Chen-ou Liu on International Haiku Poetry Day

end-of-day catch
our wicker basket full
of salmon sunset

News

Word & Image

S. Niroshini

S. Niroshini

IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED   Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on...

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Filmpoems

Martin Rieser

Martin Rieser

We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.

read more

Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

Jon Wesick

Loaded with hawks’ cries and horses’ huffs
Ennio Morricone’s score wails

Paula R. Hilton

When the genie appears, I’m in a frivolous
mood. First request? My mom’s apple pie.

Alice Huntley

slack in a bag from the freezer aisle
shaken out like shrunken grey memes
I long for the podding of beans

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

Clive Donovan

I go to the top of the risen hill,
above the trees, beyond the grass,
where only hard ground lives

News

Word & Image

S. Niroshini

S. Niroshini

IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED   Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on...

read more

Filmpoems

Martin Rieser

Martin Rieser

We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.

read more

Previously featured

Mana Misaghi

we make sure to pack a deck of cards for the train, or a sunday afternoon visit to the park. the cards will give our hands something tangible to do . . .

read more

Recent Prose

Jo Bardsley

The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Recent Haiku

Rhonda Melanson

The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.

Chen-ou Liu

this fresh morning
so much like the others …
yet starlings shape-shift

Stephen C. Curro

calm river
again, his fishing line
caught on a tree

Diane Webster

lightning flashes
everyone stands
still

Chen-ou Liu on International Haiku Poetry Day

end-of-day catch
our wicker basket full
of salmon sunset

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