Shortlist Saturdays: Salvation by Petar Penda
An insidious intent tells our inner selves
Of sacrifice and solitude, suspense and sacrilege,
Of sorrows and souls' starvation [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
A Little Night Music; Grandfather's Tale by James Langford
Disturbing. Is there someone there?
What rides upon night’s lonely air
through frost and fog? A distant sound
at time of night when [...]
Damaged Mementos by Banafshe Sharokhi
A faded rain-covered photograph leaking all color and pigment…
A vivid moment, immersed in love and rapture, nostalgia [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: DEAR ARTIST: IN PLACE OF WHAT I CANNOT SPEAK by Vikki C.
This instrument I cannot tune between your ribs.
Inside these shadowlands of birch and pine,
your own svelte tongue ripe with sunlight.[...]
Memory Meditation by William Campbell
There is something in my mind holding me back from what I wish to achieve, it is simply one desire after another – another goal [...]
Death Rattle Darkness by Kenneth Vincent Walker
I have seen both sides;
Now, I cannot close my
Eyes amid this freezing
Cold kiss of Death [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Unfinished Victorian Dream, a.k.a. Dizzy Spells by Dagne Forrest
I remember losing the horizon
and everything above it.
It doesn’t matter, you’d said,
distracted, fixing the plate
with silvered salts[...]
Closure; Examination by Tamiko Dooley
When I return from my year abroad
you suggest we take a stroll
along the Isis river
behind Christ Church meadows [...]
A Bleak Night; Disordered Thoughts by George Freek
The night is a clock
without any face,
as it spins
in cosmic cacophony. [...]
Semicircle (or) The Arc of a Shore By Robert Frede Kenter
I would hold you closely
in the confines of a nightmare
We drift towards hollowness
not a mention of
empty pools of light [...]
On Our Seventh Anniversary; Cat's Tongue, House No. One Hundred and Ten by Kushal Poddar
A frayed postman
wearing a threadbare flat cap
delivers a letter you posted
seven years ago. [...]
walking the diurnal purlieu; tenement, spirit, and pastoral worlds by Brian Michael Barbeito
beyond the forest a field appears, but first you walk though a path that is framed on the sides by tall sumac red [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Unfinished Letter in Reverse by Steve Denehan
try not to forget
try to remember
try to remember
try to remember [...]
Phantasmagoria by Kenneth Vincent Walker
The dimly lit stage has
Been lavishly set as
Obscure shape-shifting
Images and frightening [...]
Hopefully, the One Millionth and One Poem About Canadian Snow; Middle Aged Love Poem; Passing Into Darkness by Richard LeDue
It's okay not to know
who Al Purdy was.
He died
over twenty years ago, [...]
Fiddleheads by Lorette C. Luzajic
Every morning, at dawn’s first flicker in the near dark, the small girl watched the thin man descend the steep and stony incline [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: The Good Wife by Susan Richardson
Hiding behind drawn curtains,
wishing herself invisible,
she balances on wire thin moments [...]
Megrims; Status Quo; Postcard by Sanjeev Sethi
I am peeved when poems look like poems. It is the same with people. Treacle gets to me. I am good with gruffness [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Newborn by Bill Garvey
Shortlist Saturdays presents Newborn by Bill Garvey! [...]
Miniature Sun by Amy Grech
Douglas is surrounded by nothingness. [...]
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