Poetry

"...Senseless violence of our species, echoes of primal paths..."

World travelers know their dialects well...

When little girls grow up, some toys go mad. Dark poetry with a gothic twist.

"...I'm not the shadows... but they take my orders."

I had no idea that I was being groomed for servitude ... That I would become both the altar and the acolyte ...

A poetic thought about cage birds.

"Ah, you know what I like," my mother said..."

The historical chronicling in lighthearted verse of Jimmy the Rat and his run-down motel.

"...Sucking peace out of the mind..."

"...Answers are there to see..."

"Whispered tales of longing..."

"Floating down the Seine like a human starfish..."

Fed Up with this system...

Roberto Carlos Martinez (born 1983) is a Salvadorian-born American author. He is the author of four works of poetry.

"...but the music is gone into inaudibility..."

..."They see the flash, the echo of your heat..."

"...in shimmering death-light..."

"...toward the magic of the snow..."

John Grey is an Australian born poet, recently published in Oyez Review, Rockhurst Review and Spindrift with work upcoming in New Plains Review, Leading Edge and Louisiana Literature.

You have to love a Mes de los Muertos that shakes a poem from the Tree of Creativity...

The value of life, in verse.

"...Reflecting the depth of the pain..."

Get that dang cornucopia outta my face!

"...Reflections seeming there both deep and vast..."

"...Simply amazed at the wonder of your stare..."

Well worth keeping in mind...

Who is he? Why doesn't he have better clothes? Such a sad sight...or is it?

A vision of that all-consuming fire one experiences when they endure the inevitable heartbreak...

A former National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) nominee, Ndaba's poems, essays and short stories have been published in Africa and the US.

Mikel K was voted Best Atlanta Poet, the last two years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper.