Poetry

"...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..."

"...we were too young, too hungry, too bold..."

"...He had been a sailor on a warship..."

"...what is the way out?..."

"...The free flow of our blood..."

"...What’s a melody, without agility?..."

As an author and scholar, P. S. Perkins is published in several prose/poetry anthologies, as well as published professional works on Human Communication.

Jiel is a poet and storyteller whose haiku and poems have appeared in Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, and The Alipore Post, among others.

"... I could’ve been an investment banker...'

"...I shall emerge through its other side..."

"...a sign of a midlife crisis..."