Category: Original Poetry
Forest Essence
In the ancient forest, I breathe deeply. And I fancy that the wild essence Of the encircling verdant life Flows into me, lodging in a soft Pink fold and twirling its wild Double helix forever…
The Liminal Lady
Rosaries versus ovaries.Coathangers high in screamed freedomScratching against a sea of muttered prayers.Her PVC-platform boots march withtowering studded spikes,Announcing the Midnight Queen.Her feral purple mop adds bravadoto their glares.Yet, bending through the arms of anarchy.A…
A Poem for Eid
by Avellina Balestri (For my Muslim friends, whose ancestry lies across the Islamic East, particularly Adil Mulk, and in solidarity with the struggles of the Palestinian people.)People of the East,Carved of earth and sand,Cut by river…
A Footprint on the Road to Santiago
A footprint on the road to SantiagoIt has meaning - a footprint, and anotherAn indent from the ferrule of a stickToward a vision of a Field of StarsSin-weary and sunburnt, a pilgrim plodsThrough weeds and…
Flower Face
You crafted me from blossom and brushand expected me to sigh and blush,but you forgot so many flowershave such fickle thorns.Beneath the shady forest bowers,by the will of your powers,I took first sweet fragrant breath,and…
All the Little Midnight Lights
To awaken in the middle of the nightIs to realize that this midnight dreamIs a fairyland of points of lightArcing and soaring like a magic stream The curious visions before your flickering eyesBegin to focus…
My Buddy St. Anthony
Day in day out, it’s always the same I never stop calling this patient saint’s name I lost my keys, I lost my phone, I lost my wallet, even the garden gnome But it…
To the Queen
Heavy is the head And strong the heart Of she who wears the crown. Lady, lioness Our Queen The young girl at the microphone Whose father braved his stammer And the bombs at Buckingham You…
Maid of Orleans
Set your eyes upon this torture stake As the road to sainthood she must take The great Princes of both church and state Did bid her here to seal her fate To kill the life…