Category:Poetry

Poems

Rita Ann Higgins

The fates are on a bank holiday weekend / showing off around the long wards. / The spinner spins herself / into a menacing match with a melanoma / ...

Poems

Ryan Dennis

It is the commerce of farmers with hands in their pockets. / It is used by old wives / and the things they’ve known not having. / The stains in his pants are scattered language, / ...

Poems

Trevor Conway

The tiptoe of rain / Tapping as we huddle / Under the black umbrella. / Curves: your cheek, / ...

Poems

Sandra Bunting

This place called Galway / has other names, sea names, secret names. / It beckoned to us many years ago, / then turned us into familiar figures, / ...

Three Sonnets

Mark Simos

A sonnet is a form of rails and bars / And not much like the gossamer spider’s web / A foursquare scaffold toward the circling stars /

Her Diary

John D. Lippincott

It hides among shadows beneath her bed / With shoestring wrapped around to keep it closed. / I quickly read my name in streaks of blue / Across a page of cluttered memories. /

Haiku

Raffael de Gruttola

Raffael de Gruttola is past President and Treasurer of the Haiku Society of America and one of the founding members of the Boston Haiku Society which is one of the oldest groups in the USA and Internationally.  He has published …