Poetry

"...There are scorpions between the sheets..."

"...My wife stopped me -- listen she said..."

"...voracious in their appetite for sameness..."

"...They grow, grind and winnow crops..."

Daniel J. Flore III's writings have appeared in many publications. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, all available on Amazon from GenZ Publishing.

"...Don't worry how this turns out..."

"...it's sadness alive in the lack of footprints..."

"...Proving the weathermen wrong..."

"...an army outside your windows..."

"...What did you protect me from and had you been so kind why did you have to leave?"

"...She knows the importance of food production..."

Hugh Blanton combs poems out of his hair during those moments he can steal away from his employer's loading dock. He has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Rye Whiskey Review, and other places. He lives in San Diego, California.

"...this mother of all mothers -- the Columbia..."

"...Blind and deaf to the myth called age..."

"...naked branches remind me of tentacles...

"...I see moments that seem motionless..."

"...We have altered vocabulary beyond repair..."

"...all I took for granted and lost without honor..."

"...left to struggle with the bitterness..."

"...To cruise to the moon, to Mars..."

"...Every sweet heart will break..."

Vandana Kumar is a Middle School French teacher in New Delhi, India. An educator with over 20 years of experience, she is also a French translator and recruitment consultant. Her poems have been published in various national and international journals and websites.

"...I stepped on a caterpillar accidentally..."

"...No longer able to choose sides..."

"Not so known a voice Comes closer to you..."

"...Fifty years is a building's life, said the college pres..."

"...and no one here in love..."

"...they're not wearing straight jackets or foaming at the mouth..."

"...he looked around and saw devastation, dismay, and death..."

Dr. Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata.