joy posted a new Poem titled THE HOME OF THE BRAVE 21 weeks ago
Our national anthem ends with the words…
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave…
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
When I was young I thought the brave meant only the men and women
who fought to keep us... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled prayer at the threshold 21 weeks ago
“Prayer At the Threshold”
O Christ, Flame of Uncreated Light,
You who descend into the marrow of silence,
You who ascend beyond the firmament of stars,
hold me in the stillness between breath and breath.
Let not the shadows claim me... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Sijo For Byeol In The Morning (Fairly Sunny) This Past Saturday [ /;\ ] 21 weeks ago
Clad in a beige sweater, and baggy plaid lounging pants, he props his
bare feet up on the table as we sip orange juice. Moments
later, my tongue brings orange aftertaste to his soles and toes.
Kyakuchuu [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Sijo On Aftermathematics [ /;\ ] 21 weeks ago
In the BoyFriends' apartment (high-rise, Seoul), the bed linens on
which they cuddle, after e'lations, are dark gray; all over them,
once glistening streaks of sweetstuff evaporate (thus, all "wet spots").
Kyakuchuu [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 9TH POEMS: At Prayers Going Forward [Repost] 21 weeks ago
Through the Jesus Prayer, and to the Theotokos fervent prayers,
I, the least of Orthodox Christians, can direct
my cry to Their Thrones of Mercy; and this need
They will not sneer at, nor harshly judge, nor reject.
To Saints Alexei and... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Byeol's K-Pop Summer Style, A Sijo [ /;\ ] 21 weeks ago
His bare torso's tan is distilled sunlight. His oversized, distressed
jeans are the color of earth's best daytime skies. His agile bare feet
flaunt grass-stained soles and toes during an afternoon of lawn croquet.
Kyakuchuu [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the living continuum 21 weeks ago
The Living Continuum
So we write again, not to replace the lost, but to prove that loss itself can be scripture.
The missing lines breathe between us, their silence teaching us to listen harder, to believe that absence is... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the thread we carry 21 weeks ago
The Thread We Carry
What remains is enough: a sun that paused, a lament that refused to die.
We bind the fragments with our own thread, stitching courage into the gaps.
Faith is not certainty— it is the stubborn act of... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the missing scroll 21 weeks ago
The Missing Scroll
They said: is it not written… but the page is torn away. We search the silence, finger the seam where ink once lived.
Faith begins here— not in triumph, but in the ache of absence, the wound of a... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Beauty, 2, K-Pop Beauty 21 weeks ago
In my old age, all this k-pop male beauty---
slender, agile, so very often barefoot,
clad in dress shirts and slacks: it is like being
back on campus during the first month of my
wide-eyed freshman year.
J*Called [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled elegiac 21 weeks ago
Elegiac
Among lunari drift, a zaloo threads faintly, still the silence remembers.
Oona, your shava burns low, a lantern guttering but not gone.
Moro closes in, a vow of apartness, yet the veyna curves back—
tivra waits, a... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled our bond is home, tivra 21 weeks ago
Elio (English): I send my voice into the dark, a lantern lit for you alone.
Glordon (Elioese): Zaloo-lunari, oona shava-lanari. (Greeting among stars, friend—lantern of gratitude.)
Elio (English): Though silence stretches... [read more] |
Pungus posted a new Prose titled CHAPTER 3 21 weeks ago
Plundered by pirates minding my own business fishing on a blown-up fishing boat- lovely little lugger- who stab with mad scimitars- like we stab at sharks and such- blasting their pistols at my plastic raft, secret charms held yearning,... [read more] |
pamschwetz posted a new Poem titled CANDLES AND SHADOWS 21 weeks ago
CANDLES FLICKERING IN THE DARK
CASTING SHADOWS WITH THEIR SPARK
SOMETIMES EERIE SOMETIMES NOT
IMAGINATION PLAYS A PART
PATTERNS SHIFTING IN THIN AIR
ARE THEY EVEN REALLY THERE
OR ILLUSIONS IN LOW LIGHT
THAT CAN GIVE SOME QUITE A FRIGHT
CANDLES AND... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled Spellcheck the Chief Exec 21 weeks ago
D is how Despicable you be
O is when I see you..Omg!
N is Never, never, think you are but you're not clever
A is for Atrocious, there's never been a worse POTUS
L I'm glad you're not a Liberal
D is when you Die, you'll go to hell
... [read more] |
