Poetry

"I've been up and down to the heights of heaven and the depths of hell..."

Peter A. Witt is a Texas Poet and a retired university professor. He also writes family history with a book about his aunt published by the Texas A&M Press. His poetry has been published on various sites including Fleas on the Dog, Inspired, Open Skies Quarterly, Active Muse, New Verse News, and WryTimes.

"...With no need for swords or words..."

"...There is never enough solicited fanfare to satisfy..."

"...to burn with a light that maybe only i understand..."

"...where the gardens are as huge as the universe..."

"...The mornings and the evenings disappeared..."

Haiku by Jharna Sanyal...

"...the state of the world was a commotion..."

Part autobio, part fabrication, part fantasy, part critique, Passer's poetry threads through movies he's witnessed over the last 50 years.

"...magic petals of snow their cold to sizzle the ground..."

"...Nobody pities the pointless samurai or gives him food..."

"...a dash of water and bitter truths..."

"...We were all born for a reason..."

"...We were weak in times, but we never fall..."

"...the window shade down so I can not see out..."

"Trains, planes, electrified buses painted cream and red..."

"... Exactly 7 days before the big day I danced all day long..."

"...we'll be like this always..."

KS Subramanian is a retired Senior Asst. Editor from The Hindu. His poem "Dreams" won the cash award in Asian Age, a daily published from New Delhi. His poems were featured once in museindia.com, run by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Hyderabad, India.

"...the unicorns are are prancing, rearing up..."

"...overwhelmed to be in a moment with you..."

"...Don't sink into your seat and brood; don't hate the world..."

"...Bring my life some change..."

"...exotic differences that found their way into my consciousness..."

"...the world ravages your passion...

"...They said he had a rare alertness..."

"...I breathed life into this one..."

"...Please don't let it be Ohio!..."

"... frames are filled with closeups of film stars..."