I HAVE ~BY POETICIA
I have touched the farthest ends of oceans
Thrust my head into the mouths of sharks
2025
THE FALLEN KNIGHT ~BY TESS MARIA BINU
Who would have thought, he would be a fallen knight,
GETTING OVER YOU ~BY POETICIA
What happened to you?
Are you lost in the shadows of your past?
Afraid to stand in the light of your present?
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE~BY POETICIA
I’m not a distant lover
Maybe just a dormant one
Not your ideal expectation of love
TWO STRAWS AND A LONG ISLAND ~BY POETICIA
Two straws and a Long Island
Our eyes met like a breeze of stolen glances
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH ~BY EMILY DICKINSON
The Chariot [ Because I could not stop for Death ]
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
IF ~BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
GIVE ME GILLBERTY OF GIVE ME LIFE: IT WOULD WILL BE ~THERESA NEMETH
Give Me Gillberty Of Give Me Life: It Would Will Be ©2025 Theresa Nemeth (Its Me Martel) Critique Note: About My Doing Because The Happenstance Of My Entrapment Was Due To The Circumstance Led On By The Happenstance Of An Old Joke In God School From The 3rd Era – Which Never Ended Until Today –…
INCIDENT ~BY COUNTEE CULLEN
INCIDENT Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis tongue, and called me, “Nigger.” I saw the whole of BaltimoreFrom May until December;Of all the things that happened thereThat’s…