August 13, 2025
August 10, 2025
Feeling the weight, being alive in the broken world, I take my sewing basket down from the highest shelf, stitching the pieces back together.
August 1, 2025
Take a run through the forest, or swim in the depths. Breathe in the heart of nature as you scamper with the animals, daydream of springtime, and linger beneath the waterfall's splash. Plunge into the refreshing waters of the river, or curl up with a cuppa tea and good book in the garden where birds and ladybugs play. The wonders and healing calm of nature await in the pages of our Breath of Nature Poetry Special.
July 14, 2025
Because I was fourteen, the icy cold Pacific Ocean warmed to bathwater within minutes of immersion. Beyond the official beaches, after scrambling down a wooded ravine now collapsed into itself, lost to time.
July 10, 2025
Fated call to arms
to answer a distant king
dragged from island home
Dragged from island home
on ships full with tools of war
an unwilling pawn
July 3, 2025
June 29, 2025
The confections you keep in a milk-glass bowl hold fast, freckled with dust and faded by sun. Think bolted bric-a-brac with colors leaking…
June 16, 2025
can you see them on the air of summer? hint of wing, gentle glimmer a whisper, a suggestion on the wind…
May 28, 2025
Stopped over and over again!
Life has hurled me to break more than once.
The enchanted misery is the pain
That darts my excruciation in this paradisiacal island.
May 9, 2025
May 1, 2025
One April night, Earth's cloudy, coal-black screen / Tore with a bellow, lashing all the streets / With myriad malformed spherules full of sheen / And coating them like chalk-white, lengthy sheets…
April 27, 2025
You dig deep, flip through snapshots of memories to find me. I'm here, cut from the same dough as people you know now. I'm in their eyes…