I walked my anxiety into the woods and told it, the trees were not shadowed in mind’s darkness; but nature’s. The negative voices were not going to stop this walk in the woods, where the path lay to an ending filled with next day’s surprises of acceptance and words, that mattered. For inside the woods:... Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday Ephemeral Elegies!
Today marks the one year anniversary of me purchasing the domain for Ephemeral Elegies and hatching an idea that has really blossomed this year! Over the past year, this humble poetry journal has had 136 posts with 21,887 views. It’s been an honor to work with so many talented poets from all over the globe – highlighting... Continue Reading →
Dyslexia by Tori Campbell
sometimes the words jump around and the letters are backwards when I read out loud I try to keep up with the moving words as though they’re on a treadmill but my pace has to match its speed immaculately but usually I fall too fast or too slow and even if it’s just right my... Continue Reading →
Elenora Singleton by Tobias Maxwell
FACTS: You and I, three minutes old, Your dark expression jeers At me as though set in a trance. You sniff me out, You peck at my soul You mock my skin, With your piercing eyes. My innocence insists back ever so quietly While you accuse me of trying to filch That ratty old... Continue Reading →
Indicant by Sanjeev Sethi
Each and every separation isn’t severance. Some are thanks to temporal calls: choices imposed upon us. Partings: the last moments reveal the ardor in the association. Was it leisurely or hasty leave-taking? Photo by Martino Grua on Pexels.com About the Poet: Sanjeev Sethi is published in over 30 countries. He has more than 1300 poems... Continue Reading →
Father Cell, Daughter Cell by Meg Smith
I hold you both in the shadow of a bright crescent, though you have passed through fire and dust. Once we were three hearts, the night gathered us, and our fingers touched. One taken from me in blood and a haze of sleep; and now, everything from words, from breath, from our forgotten clay. I empty... Continue Reading →
These Memories are a Pavement by John Tustin
These memories are a pavement Going on uninterrupted for miles, Wet with the rain, beautiful from Afar and slippery when trodden. They are where I slip and fall each Night and where I awaken each Morning, getting myself up and Continuing to walk this sidewalk That goes on and on yet leads me Nowhere but... Continue Reading →
Diminishing by John D. Robinson
They could feel the light diminishing as they slid closer to each other and when they were engulfed in darkness they knew that they had finally cut loose. Photo by Alex Kozlov on Pexels.com About the Poet:John D Robinson is a UK poet: hundreds of his poems have appeared in print and online: he has... Continue Reading →
Invisible by Fabrice Poussin
Decades have flown by like comets in the thick darkness of unknown spaces leaving a gentle tail of magical sands. He continues his steadfast journey carefree through a dragnet of faces without features, robots in a crowd. Dim tales slowly vanish upon the cosmos; will they subsist long enough to be captured by the eyeless... Continue Reading →
Unattainable by Andrea Festa
My father stood beside the wilted orange tiger lilies on the side of our house. So small and fragile compared to the grand spectacle in the sky. A meteor shower, a celestial trajectory of cosmic debris. Thousands, bright and fast, cascaded from the infinite galaxy to Earth. Earth, where my father and I stood, awestruck.... Continue Reading →