Poetry

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.

A retired special education teacher and recent octogenarian, Vern Fein has published over 250 poems/prose pieces on over 100 different sites.

"...If Poetry needs to weep, Garamond takes her in his brawny arms..."

"...illusion of future memories pictured in my eyes..."

"...Bring me a box, a bag, a promise..."

"...a sudden bazooka of rainbow syllables..."

Matt Witt is a writer and photographer in Talent, Oregon. His work may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com.

"This poem explores a plea for an energy transition."

"...the world a knot you could never unravel..."

"...fragments in time perfectly in tune..."

"...ords and numbers are things no one has ever seen or heard or touched..."

"...a special love for survivors of everyday woe,..."

"...Let it hug someone somewhere..."

"... pain rises from the core of the heart..."

"This poem explores a writer’s ways of reinvention and rejuvenation."

"...sitting on someone’s porch at night eating ice cream..."

"... a cold beer is the answer to many questions torturing us daily..."

"...electromagnetic currents coursing through long distance keystrokes ..."

"...a marriage of rock and fluid..."

"...Will all that sweat be rendered futile..."

"...to just sit and watch The little things that went on Or didn’t..."

"...death came floundering down the line..."

"...the major tear-off bit attached, doctor’s scribble, notorious..."

"This poem explores the Zimbabwe government’s politics of prejudicial cruelties."

"...it may be that science is not complete..."

"...They couldn't gauge the truth about their love..."

"...think a porch swing on a crisp October afternoon..."

"...you told your neighbour..."

"...it had given added life to this quiet place..."

"When I was a child I loved to watch men shave..."