More Than the Moon (Poem)

Here is an excerpt from a beautiful poem by Dawn Wilfong: When I am settling down to bed, you’ve slept for hours. As you wake up I am still soundly sleeping. If I long for you as you dream of me are we connected? Read the entire poem, called “More Than the Moon,” here.

My Sneaking Tears (Poem)

I saw this poem and found it so beautiful that I immediately searched for the author (Mark R. Slaughter) online in order to ask his permission to post it here. Fortunately, I found him, and even more fortunately, he was kind enough to allow me to reprint this poem and share it with all of [...]

Super Short Poems You Will Love, from Twitter Poets

Recently, Tina Nguyen and Claire Everett hosted a twitter poetry party.  People from around the globe joined in to write gogyohka, a Japanese form of short poetry consisting of 5 lines of free verse.  The themes were “summer” and “spirit.”  Here are some of the wonderful and sometimes quirky poems that came out of that virtual get-together… [...]

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Verse

(Edit:  Originally, I was going to document the majority of the sports in the 2010 Winter Olympics, but I just kind of flaked and now I’ve forgotten everything that happened.  So…yeah, I just ended up writing about one of the sports–snowboarding.) Dedicated to the memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili Georgian luger who died in a training [...]

The Metro and Wild Violets, Poems and Stuff

Check out Wild Violet, an online literary journal which features poetry, fiction, interviews, art, and more.  While you’re there, read Lyn Lifshin’s poem, On the Metro, which starts like this: a woman with dark curly hair is on p. 101 of Fear of Flying. I’m flung back to when my hair was thick and curly [...]

Answer Me When I Send Text Messages… (Poem)

Love this opening line from J. Mae Barizo’s poem, Anthelion: Answer me when I send text messages that make no sense but which Notate ever so delicately the names of things not said. Read the full poem as well as other work from this author which appears in the current issue of online alternative poetry journal, ditch.

Two MicroPoems about Two Wasted Girls at a Concert

Saw two things at a concert last weekend that were poem-worthy.  1) Really skinny girl (like drugged-out skinny) dancing spastically (like drugged-out dancing) fall on her face.  2) Middle-aged woman bend over, put her hands on the ground, and shake her (huge) butt in the air, then stand up and proceed to smack her own (huge) butt repeatedly. Thank you, [...]

Sensual Poem – Meadow Again

Meadow Again by Daniel James Burt Moon hangs, almost full pieces of cloud scatter, glide in soft, summer breeze. We lay in our meadow listening to the sound of night her head nestled on my arm. Night air made for kissing dances upon our skin chilling wherever is damp. She stirs, quietly calls, my name [...]

Beer Haiku

Beer Haiku Daily is just that – a site featuring a haiku each day having to do with beer and its effects.  For example, here is the entry from last Monday: That joke from last night Is even less funny now Than when you told it. Great concept; amusing site.  Go check it out now.

Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems

Ann Walters has a poem called Zen and the Art of Knitting Socks which just came out in the anthology, Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, available at amazon.com. Ann is an amazing poet, and you can see some of her previous work by following the links in these posts:   Congratulations [...]