Poetry

"...love is an urban legend, passed through the generations, from one friend of a friend to another..."

"When I die don’t you dare..."

"...what’s your favorite dish?.."

"...fish clutch hitting a sidearm..."

"...I see a blossoming universe singing with you..."

Anne Eyries left the UK last century to work in France, lives in Arles and is a member of the Poetry Society’s Stanza in France.

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays Afro-Cuban folkloric music for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash fiction, and non-fiction.

"...you start calling your grandkids by their parents' first names..."

"...Our life is represented by someone else’s pen..."

"...to address us who once came out of the waters..."

"...there are collar pins, tie pins, rolling and bowling pins..."

"...please put up a good fight..."

"...It is too distant for me to know..."

"...Thinking about how much lovelier you are..."

"...The lesson had been clearly taught..."

"...somebody’s heart was broken..."

"...Lived through the towering inferno..."

"...From the dark depths, resurfacing, the melodies ride the crests of storms..."

"...the empty promise of every dusk..."

"...the service challenged his stamina..."

"...emotions trailed behind, following a sorrowful path..."

"...I caught us looking different directions on the highway..."

"...unnumbered fireflies of stars stream their waterfalls of silver with dim patterns..."

"...getting through the year is a blessing..."

"...a cat burglar with knives for claws..."

DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent."

"...I do not know, but I care to know..."

"...and we were all of us drunk..."

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who was raised in New York City, and is now living in a forest in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Since she has returned to writing poetry this year, her poems have been accepted in a few dozen publications.