Category: poetry

ONE POEM – Stephen House

we keep walking
maybe fearful of touching
in front of others
unable to be completely who we are
two men with love
happily growing older
together

TWO POEMS – L.T. Pelle

the genre of god 
is locksmith and that’s

why neon is always 
looking for a sign : 

It’s hard being a poet in 2020 – David Giles

It’s hard being a poet in 2020

Which is when this will be published
If you have the GUTS to publish it
Which I doubt
Being bitter & twisted

ONE POEM – Teodora Lalova

I often think of telling you
There is something wrong with time here.
I’m not sure whether I age faster or, quite the contrary –
Once we’re introduced again, I’ll be annoying in my youth.

ONE POEM – James Carroll

She’s pulling up weeds from the flowerbed
And then starts feeling one tug back,
Wrapping her water grip and dragging her
Through the claggy earth.

ONE POEM – Niamh Gallagher

This rockmelon is bloated with guilt
Sweet, near-rancid, on the knife’s edge of festering
Press down and it will oblige

TWO POEMS – Alexandre Ferrere

I had
one chance out of zero,
but spent a youth chasing
what I am still not.

ONE POEM – Lauren Bender

points for you if you are boss of the building, every lock
warm at your fingertips, every door’s soft click
yours as it shuts, every window with your face
reflected in it.

ONE POEM – Richard Brostoff

Above the house a low sun like a wrecking ball,
the world at the horizon splintered like a Rothko

ONE POEM – Stephen House

i order a long black
he looks at me
man on man gaze 

i smile

ONE POEM – Paul Robert Mullen

douse it           douse it            douse it
strike a match and freeze the scene

TWO POEMS – Natalie Crick

I want to feel
the warm milk of your smile. 
I want to see your reflection
in the moon’s mirror, polished like spring bones.