What Are You?
~ by Kashif Qaimi You are you… How can I describe you in so few words? You are everything that I adore, but cannot access You are like the moonlight, Which I can see, wrapped…
Category: Original Poetry
Alone: The Life of an Immortal
By Joseph Vreeland Word count: 254 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: An immortal being searches his soul. The silence is there, ever inviting us to stay in the midst of the darkest days.…
The Fettered Nation
By Yashwant Mishra Word Count: 165 Rating: PG for thematic content Summary: A lament of the state of India Children are begging, the youth is lagging, They died for nation but never saw it coming.…
Polar Messenger
By Ronnie Smith Word Count: 90 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem of arctic terns Somewhere on tundra you will sate your life aloft, O Arctic Tern, a rest for you, for…
Claudia of Rome
CLAUDIA OF ROME By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word count: 77 Rating: G Summary: A short poem of Claudia of Rome. Every daughter is born of royalty To rule and serve in lineal descent from God…
Flame of Truth
Glorious flame of Truth, Make of each heart a candle And send us out into the world To spread Your light. Oh, may Your goodness shine Into every shadowed corner And finding stricken lives Dispel…
Idle Dreams
He came to her in the darkness And he laid his head on her breast ‘I dreamed’ he said, ‘of the strangest things Of stars and waters and mysteries, And by all the pagan gods…
Provide Yourself with Words
By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 100 Rating: G Summary: a short, sweet poem Tollite vobiscum verba, et convertimini ad Dominum -Osee 14:3 1 Provide yourself with words, with magic words, And like Old Väinämöinen 2 sing them…
You Can Tell the Bees Anything
By Lawrence Hall Word Count: 90 Rating: G Summary: A whimsical look at the bees. Go tell your secrets to the morning bees You’re safe with them; they’ll listen as they work The only buzz…