Ripe Leaves by Howard Stein
“Ripeness is all.” King Lear. William Shakespeare. Tough lives, tougher hides,Texture of perseverance –Scrub oak leaves,Mature by late spring,Await a...
“Ripeness is all.” King Lear. William Shakespeare. Tough lives, tougher hides,Texture of perseverance –Scrub oak leaves,Mature by late spring,Await a...
Of all men can count of bliss, peace is peak without superior. Of all men could live without, air devoid...
The Poet lives in the moment of creation. It's more than a smile and a hug. He opens the heavenly...
When i asked the waves Since when have you started visiting the shore The tide whispered Count... Count the grains of...
jade canopy waving while it whispers the lush secret, compelled delicious word of myriad words casting shadowed merriment at a...
In a large house with hidden closets aplenty where my precious children once played you could enjoy hide and peek...
Beauty is not bound in the clutches of perfection. Let it flow seamlessly like a river. Let it radiate its...
A mirror which is cracking. It is cracking slowly, quietly, lonely into loneliness The crack begins at one edge, but...
“They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds” - Mexican Proverb. Hello seed, how long do you...
There was a girl Who lived in a querencia A secret garden, Where love, light surrounds. Enchantress soul uses passionate...
I like fairy tales. But not those with Princes and Princesses, royal weddings and royal babies attached, that I don't...
Difference, a Riddle for the Age of COVID-19 What is the difference Between A visiting nurse And...
Desolate cities looking like ghosts, Victims are still dropping dead in their tracks From this ferocious plague going around the...
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has celebrated the winners of this year's Art and Poetry Contest....
Enjoy the 53rd episode of Parrot Literary Corner with Denja Abdullahi from Nigeria https://youtu.be/XDVVUXsqAEw Parrot Literary Corner is the only...
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Parrot Literary Corner is the only DAILY TV show in the whole world that promotes and gives the voice to...
Parrot Literary Corner is the only DAILY TV show in the whole world that promotes and gives the voice to...
Parrot Literary Corner is the only DAILY TV show in the whole world that promotes and gives the voice to...
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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...
In the silence of this sunny street, fleet of feetshuffle in bigger fear that the trigger lets loosea ball via...
The New York Parrot Literary Corner hosts live interviews through Zoom with poets and writers globally. We make these interviews...
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...
Children are gifts, special gifts They bear talents and dreams Lineages hook and line along them Posterity anchors on them....
An erstwhile “colored person” explains whymore recent labels do not satisfy Please don’t call me Of Color, which is assonant...
Skype session was short. They brought two truckloads of villagers wounded in a tanker explosion. “More amputations tonight.” Tom takes...
Dedicated to Koffi Anan’s soul When someone dies, the body goes but the soul stays. Death only shows faces glowing...
The sinful playacting of the leaders insists on crowing over empty victories, and words without being versed are cremated on...
One child who likes The game of missiles and nuclear tests And the other child who takes pride in The...
With a soothing flow; And an imaginative glow A poem comes in between words and is Always a delight to...
Whenever he opens his mouth, He raises his vocal cords as much as possible Saying he is smarter, He has...
Secrets stashed away in the folds of the clothes Like pieces of jewellery to escape a thief’s eye Vows imprinted...
SATIRICAL LINES IN IMITATION OF Destruction of the Bastille BY COLERIDGE I. As we listen to the talking heads...
Whenever I thought of you, Anger welled up And I wanted to grab you by the collar And beat you...
Repeal nepotism Repeal intolerance Repeal reputations Repeal contradictions Repeal overrated debates Repeal credibility of greed Repeal self-indulgent bravado Repeal cheerleading for...
Don’t get upset because I loved Our gone babies . At the end of time and the universe my dream...
From now on, However hard and painful I am, I won’t draw the rainbow about you Nor will I raise...
Why did the Nile dweller, Bastet* the beautiful, metamorphose from a Lioness to a cat Two thousand years, Bastet turned...
The sun kissed my skin, Thank God for my beautiful melanin. Whether chestnut, almond or chocolate Black girls are winning....
The day of the explosion He faces the challenge of existence A quarter of homeless children. ...
The woods beyond my window are silently watching me. Tall, old trees, wearing a wise-look, are keeping an account of...
He talks of love and religion and writes poetry that is often critiqued by some as similar to verses from...
In a horizontal mirror of the straightened bay the points of an angular city stabbing directly into the starry sky....
(First published by Borderlessjournal.com) I've toured the whole protests; All enjoined but one detest: You cannot campaign for best and...