Luck by Joan McNerney
Wearing designer clothes and sleek jewelry, she traipses along willy nilly throwing golden kismet wherever whimsy calls. Some think luck...
Wearing designer clothes and sleek jewelry, she traipses along willy nilly throwing golden kismet wherever whimsy calls. Some think luck...
Between us and God Constant pleas Humble prayers for forgiveness Countless trespasses of mankind Unconscious of consequences. Now on our...
Ella singing of the old ennui— granddaughter in her first fifth month splashing in an outdoor bathtub at her uncle’s...
It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing) Do nothing till you hear from me Cry me...
September now is burdened with yahrzeit. My grandmother turns well into her third century. My childhood friend turns seventy-four. Our...
My nerves are wound like piano wire wrapped around my wrists and ankles etched into my face and beating heart...
You got a choice between a cop and a man hooping— who do you choose? in rat’s alley where dead...
It’s 2019 (sic, see note at bottom) and climate change is worsening our survival chances. It is time to take...
In Kaduna, maybe in Benue Bodies explode A whole ocean of blood sluicing down west, down east A fume of...
She is trained to be ‘amenable’ So, she always says ‘Yes’ She is taught to be silent So, she rarely...
Not all the clouds make rain Identically, not all the love possess sky Yet, Love comes forth Man blends with...
this poem was written in 2012 End of sanity Lack of sanity The easy Armageddon is here Pain of blood...
graffiti on the West Bank Barrier Yellow bird, flaming upward like a golden phoenix from the spurs in my heart!...
Worse Digesting Any and all of it Food Air The smell of conspiracy People’s war The total occupation of privacy...
By Mutiu Olawuyi If he spits melodic lines But with beasts he whines and dines, He deserves a Macron slap...
PROLOGUE (bats eyes at the Black poet, fake mascara) my so-called verses swing hearses for the missus i am an...
Difference, a Riddle for the Age of COVID-19 What is the difference Between A visiting nurse And...
Fire! Extreme destruction and devastation! From grass to bush From bush to tree Trees after tree So widely it runs....
Desolate cities looking like ghosts, Victims are still dropping dead in their tracks From this ferocious plague going around the...
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Roaches are despicable. They zip up a wall and onto the ceiling with their evil little-barbed claws like demons, gives...
LIVE! from New York, deliver the 5 lb. human for the ritual neck snap, ...
In the silence of this sunny street, fleet of feetshuffle in bigger fear that the trigger lets loosea ball via...
Charlie’s identity was forged out of his rap sheet, scars and tattoos, a sort of map of how he got...
In the silence of this sunny street, fleet of feetshuffle in bigger fear that the trigger lets loosea ball via...
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when you dream leave the bottomless a cup of ancient wine spilt over the highway a libation to the lunacy...
Some loved her for veracity, Some hated her for her candour. Neither a poet, nor a writer She is just...
This is not a callto revolution,not a callto take up arms.It's the man who watchesboats drift on the riverall day...
I wrote about the falling rain Somebody said I have seized the tempo I wrote about the tree and...
The poem revolves around current security lapse in Nigeria and its devastating impact on people and property. This chaos gnawing at...
Introduction: On Election Day for the 24th Knesset on March 23, 2021, the 10th day of the Hebrew month Nissan,...
Children are gifts, special gifts They bear talents and dreams Lineages hook and line along them Posterity anchors on them....
My southern hill is to the south of any hills With green trees and flowers everywhere There are a farm,...
a review of lastbench little magazine's Special North American Trump protest edition In any reasonable world, Donald Trump would be...
Albert V. Nikolla Tunisian poet Hella Tekali has her own style of writing distinctive poetry, among thousands of other poems....
He is a poor farmer, Seeking for sympathy and succour. No goal, no dream, no recognition, Feed the world his...
President Joe Biden has promised to declare safely reopening of schools as soon as his Secretary of Education is confirmed...
As virtually everyone knows, grammar is the study how words are used in language to form acceptable structures and sentences....
This is part two of Desmond's serialized short story. The first section was published recently in the New York Parrot....
As humans, language is the essence and quintessence of our existence. There is hardly anything we can do or achieve...
Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji The previous Industrial Revolutions or Industry 1.0, Industry 2.0 and Industry 3.0 naturally served as a...
Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji The Third Industrial Revolution or Industry 3.0 marked the beginning of another era, which is otherwise...
Prof. Mahfouz A. Adedimeji It was the Greek Philosopher of the 5th Century, Heraclitus, who once examined the concept of...
Prof. M. A. Adedimeji As the unusual year 2020 drifts to its end, it is appropriate to reflect on some...
A farmer’s homeland, is gathered in his palm of land He never walks out of the crop line of sight,...
Seven years ago, precisely on Thursday, December 5, 2013, the world was jolted by the news of a colossus who...
Mackenzie Scott has donated $60 million to two CUNY schools as part of her $4.1 billion philanthropic mission. Lehman College...