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Pretending to Be Profound | JD DeHart
By the light that streams in, you can see through the discourse, held up to the light like a small animal within that envelope of syntax and highbrow terminology, the digestive system of the creature can be deduced a flurry of sound and thunder with no lightning heat or music. The post Pretending to Be…
Being Held | Tempest Brew
Flower bud canvas surrounds the circle face image with soft plying petals of whisper sound. The post Being Held | Tempest Brew appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
J. Tarwood: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________________________________ A Pause in Our Divorce Tomorrow, we start again, those leaflets on the blood of the lamb swirling about my blockade of shot glasses. Like a coffin with its lid kicked open, our trailer will shake when I blast out the door, stuffed tigers tumbling…
The Feeling | Emily Hargrave
Eternally bereft of Anything like the Feeling I had when We were walking Hand in hand on The beach, nothing But the sound of The ocean and the Sense we were Entering a new time. The post The Feeling | Emily Hargrave appeared first on Best Poetry Online. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
A Friendly Reminder | Scott Thomas Outlar
Thankfulness for the present moment envelops my heart strings, plucking out a song of pure gratitude as the grace of a new beginning bleeds out a fresh transfusion, invigorating this body of flesh with a smile from the source directly through my soul, reminding me that everything, right now, is perfectly at peace. More at…
“Lufthansa” by John Tranter [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
“Lufthansa” is one of Tranter’s best and most anthologised poems. The poem is mimetic of one of its early lines: it seems “struck by an acute feeling of precision” which leaves little room for interpretation or “meaning” that extends beyond the surface of its language. Michael Brennan has astutely drawn comparisons between the poem’s “unity,…