Today’s choice
Previous poems
Tony D’Arpino
The Bee and the Lemon Tree
like a lover
the bee visits the tree
every day
on the window ledge
the little tree
is sky goddess
the breeze speaks
to the bee-wasp
love circles in the air
the hider
in the lemon leaves
a thought
hums a tune
scent dances
over the kitchen
Tony D’Arpino is an American poet based in Bristol. He is the author of four poetry collections and three pamphlets. His most recent collection is Sky Tree Sky (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), a sequence of poems based on the journals of the Scottish botanist David Douglas. His poems can be found in the Evergreen Review, the Winter Anthology, London Grip, Blackbox Manifold, and Elsewhere Literary Review.
Rose Lennard
My mother died seven years ago, but last night
she had a message for me. The mechanics
are irrelevant, what she gave stays with me
Rongili Biswas
Girls under the tree,
one with hands clasped as in worship,
the others picking
the scarlet fallen seeds
Laura Sheahen
What is the ancient curse they know that you don’t
Moving along their mouth-lines and their eyebrows
Lowering their lids, tensing their nods or shrugs
Marilyn Ricci
After his baby son died he strapped
a tumble dryer to his back and ran
the roads around the village.
Wendy Clayton
I’m always thinking about how I can find more human beings.
Kate Leah Hewett
Sorry, but I’ve stopped
cleaning the windows.
Winifred Mok
Perhaps it’s because
I look like
I’m just passing through
Col Fleetwood
Unmoored on an ocean of heather
no wind to pluck the strings
of the aeolian harp
Amlanjyoti Goswami
Those night boats are back.
Fishermen string their nets
Counting fresh catch.