Poetry

"...to bear witness, if any one is listening..."

"...sat on my palm to make me calm on the ongoing war of anxiety...

"...put away those poverty-prone politicians' poisons..."

"...We love each other, but ran out of things to say..."

"...The world is a book of dreams..."

"...Why did you have to go?..."

"...Scorsese broke kneecaps in the name of realism..."

"...Pay attention now or the cost drives up further..."

"...no better shelter than heartache..."

"...a city of ruins, in a place of punished innocence..."

"...sang and sang at a time unknown and wrong..."

Rp Verlaine has a MFA in creative writing from City College and taught in NY schools for many years. Although he no longer teaches, he continues to write and do photography in NYC. Rp's most recent poetry collection, Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers was released in 2018.

"...The paisley shirt my mother chose..."

"...musical explorations from coffee grounds and midnight oil..."

"...Pain has gone from the flesh once home to such joy..."

"...on one knee helping..."

"...the soul wants to be free at all cost..."

"...The truth has no meaning among the unholy hordes..."

"...now the same souls have landed hard on the ground..."

"...Crushproof heart: all you need..."

Devika Mathur is a published poetess residing in India. Her work has published in magazines like Visual Verse, Indian Periodicals, Blue ink poetry, Sudden Denouement among various others. She is a contributor writer for Whisper and the roar and blood into ink.

"Has anyone seen a little cat?"

Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Hobart, and elsewhere. Her photographs are published worldwide. She is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.

"...she could have shot a Czar in 1917..."

"...exactly..."

"...they will revive THEIR nation..."

"...Yes, the ocean calls to me like a lover..."

"...that's acceptance rejecting cynicism..."

"...outside the garden of gods Is the hometown of thy soul..."

"...is whatever he's got creeping underneath my door?.."