Tag: love

  • The Last Night by Jack Lowe-Carbell

    The Last Night by Jack Lowe-Carbell

    β€œRemember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”-Jhumpa Lahiriβ€œThe Namesake” It had felt differently lately, everything had. He had gone through his days with a boring shuffled step, his soles dragging along as he went about the mundane activities…

  • A Sestina for a Chocolate-Eyed Lover by Jordan Scott

    A Sestina for a Chocolate-Eyed Lover by Jordan Scott

    I love the way you say the word β€œvase.”I love how it trips off of your tongue.Your voiceβ€” warmer than chocolate.Your Southern accent, the way you form your words, better than touch.I could drown in a pool of words that you’ve spoken.Sing to me softly, Beloved. I have ordered my…

  • Meet Me At Dawn by Yaminnie Chandrra

    Meet Me At Dawn by Yaminnie Chandrra

    It’s been a long, cold, lonely nightI’ve been lost in the shadows of the pastI fell into abyss,of these dark-dark thoughts The guiding stars were there all alongI had shut my eyes so tight, I had!I’d missed to see them,blind as I was… You’ve been searching for me in the…

  • Sculpted by Victoria Male

    Sculpted by Victoria Male

    β€œSo, you’re the so-called β€˜excellent supplicant’ of mine who called me a bitch then vomited in my temple.” Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β  Pygmalia scrambled to her knees and pressed her head to the floor, internally cursing herself regarding its dusty state. In Pyg’s defense, she had not expected the goddess of love and…

  • Six Ways of Looking at Love When the World is Ending by Ilika Tripathi

    Six Ways of Looking at Love When the World is Ending by Ilika Tripathi

    I. If the world is ending, don’t come to see meBecause that would mean that you took a busAnd you hate taking buses – the wait, the journey, the destinationAnd that’s when I’d realize yet again, how much I love you. II. What if when the apocalypse hits, there are…

  • Natural Summer Love Lost by Shiela Denise Scott

    Natural Summer Love Lost by Shiela Denise Scott

    As I push the lawn mower,Past brush and broken dreams,Of flowers growing in fields,That will never cultivate reality,Acres of promise,Buried purpose by law,Suffocated seeds awaiting,To expose the future cause,Only heat, air and summer rain,Can change amid the times,Love lost its circumstance,Bonds dropped its cost,Leaving all plans,Lost,Dare I use the summer,To…

  • The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston

    The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston

    On this walk, as with all days,I move,until the moon,usurps the sun.The songs of life ongoing,do their best, to fill the barren space,you once occupied.Is it hubris,to say, you are the best there ever was.Daydreams of our eleventh hour,what I could have articulated, differently.How life could change so irrevocably in…

  • The Choice by Michael Cooney

    The Choice by Michael Cooney

    β€œA choice, made now, today, projects itself backwards in time and changes past actions.”      – Czeslaw Milosz, quoting an unknown disciple of Karl Jaspers I made excuses, rejectingwhat I knew of mortality, eitheryours or mine, and suddenlythe black leaves grew greenwhere they had fallen and you,rapturous with rings on yourfingers,…

  • Vodka Vision by Mia Amore Del Bando

    Vodka Vision by Mia Amore Del Bando

    I slept with someone who looked like youUnder the sheetsVodka visionSwiping your face with hisPlastic toy camera, slide show Diving into the square fantasyThe reel is blurryAnything close is good enough. He had a different laughForgiving dark eyesAttention directed at my chestEdge of a cliff, falling inCharming, genuine smileHis touch…