Poetry

"...But I refuse to be…"

"Truth in strands..."

"...jazz cats are far from home..."

Charlotte Cosgrove is a writer and lecturer from Liverpool. She has published two collections of poetry and is the editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal.

"...the guns, the fires, the floods..."

"...so the person or object becomes worthy of love..."

"Obviously, life abhors clean windows..."

"...His father returns as a fish..."

"...His impassioned calls for a better nation were a trademark..."

"...i hide things in my bones..."

"...some were intrigued by the skull..."

"...I wake up to the moonlight ..."

"...idolaters, cannibals, emerging from holes..."

"...I never understand the language of water..."

"...An exhausting presence..."

"...one degree deeper into a feeling of comfort..."

"Please spin a story..."

"...Denial and acceptance!.."

Michael Minassian is a Contributing Editor for Verse-Virtual, an online poetry journal.

"...A cat burglar in your hood..."

"...Still crisp, poignant In its memories..."

"...evening sky is wellin’ up and threatenin’ to unload its whole rag-bag repertoire ..."

"...how long are you planning to stay?..."

"...Initially I placed hope..."

"...A bumper crop of visions..."

Mitra Samal is a Techie turned Poet and Writer. Her works including poems, stories, essays, and reviews have been published in numerous venues. She is also an avid reader and a movie buff.

"...The inhumanity of man is just too much..."

"...Technology makes demands..."

"...A riverbank sentinel mumbling his blunders..."

"...Picturing the ball spinning through the uprights..."