Author Archives: Stick Figure Poetry

By Dee Allen The silent wallsKnow my every mood.This room is where myConfidence goes to die.I come here as wellTo recover, nurse the woundsPast detractorsWith knives sliced into me.Four wooden wallsIn a first-floor duplex apartmentProvide refuge fromThe mob of haters looking to finish the job.No more performances.No more false adulation.No more attempts to impressFaces thatContinue reading “Hermit”

By Garry Turchin The way mail piles upthe way we arguethe way we failand keep failingthe way we ageand carry grudgesthe way we hurt ourselvesand each otherthe way we smellor others smellthe way we have to waitthe way we have to hurrythe way no one caresthe way we don’t carethe way our government doesn’t understandtheContinue reading “A thousand little irritants”

By Brianna Booker daddy’s out of jail nowshe can’t see him anymorehe’s in a halfway house she pictures a building with only three walls mamma gets home from workshe hands her baby girl a coatwinter’s coming in the mountains This is only halfway to a home; the best she thinks there is they live offContinue reading “Abused Anonymous”

By Paul Corman Roberts All this distancing is going to leave us hornier and kinkier than ever All this time lying about our platforms will leave nowilling body undiscovered. There is only so much lonely We can bearbefore giving in to the larger ocean and all the forbidden that follows Sadness and joy become aContinue reading “In the Sideways”

A feeling accompanied with Love and disdainScattered leaves on a rooted treeYellow leafs on a supposed green treeDeceit in the mind of natureGo back to where you came from, From nothing.Is better to BE NOT than BE and NOTSanitation is about to take place in paradise. Samson Charles is full time weirdo from Gombe state,Continue reading “Sammy Charles”

by Ruby Read I confer with the fernsTo make sense of the consThe time that we squander To wander with swans And watched as the windSang sweet serenadeAnd danced with the treesTo alter the shade And light of all thisI still felt so coldAs I pondered the pondMy reflection seemed old Ruby Read is aContinue reading “Pond Err”

by Frank May I have to do it again and again and again and again and then I will be able to make a decision by myself or not but if we don’t get the chance can we get the chance to go through this again and again and again for all of your hardContinue reading “Text Poem”

By Eva Parry Everyone thinks his leap of faith islike a trust fallor talking about his dark past.most people don’t consider jumping off a bridgeto be his leap of faithPerhaps faith that it will end in darknessor faith he will survive and someone will finally ask whyor faith no one will go looking for himorContinue reading “Leap of faith”

BLEEDINGOne of these daysI will open a vein and the wordsthat tumble outwill redefine me; but until then I am mute, hollow and pained. #10the mattress is gone.one less memory of her blue-lipped breathless flesh #16he burns a candlewe bought a lifetime ago when love forgave sins Angel Ackerman has studied world history, specifically post-colonial Francophone Africa, Muslim relations,Continue reading “Three Short Poems by Angel Ackerman”

By Catherine Zickgraf Like threaded grooves of a clock screw,ramps channeled rocks to build up walls.I´m folding towels, a spire falls.The centuries are not coming back. Nothing lasts forever, I shiver as CNN shows the fire.Churches of trees will burn-but only burial can melt the stoneswhen the earth takes back its own Catherine Zickgraf´s mainContinue reading “Stones Stand”