Unrequited Love | Mónika Tóth
I love you
You love me?
So long silent…
Unrequited love
loss poems
The Change | William Swales
Walk this path
Moonlight stroll
Dreams of you
Days of old
Life was good
Love was full
Leaves now drop
Autumn cool
Emptiness fills
deep inside
Like naked forests
whose leaves
have died
Opened up
for all to see
No you
beside me
No birds in trees
Now you’re gone
A Summer fling
Missing now
the birds
that sing
Wonder how
things fell apart
Walk this path
to mend my heart
Perspective in a Painting | Michael Kagan
In the painting
I see the back of my head
The cheek and profile
Of my sister crying,
We’re standing deep
In the wheat field
Towering over us
Watching our father’s tractor
Traveling in circles,
All you can see is the big rear tires
The side of his leg
His left hand
Sleeping at the wheel,
We can see the barn burning
All the animals running
Out of the smoke,
I can see
The arsonist painting
This scene of her own making
But she left the picture
Before it was dry
Smouldering in my mind.
The Unthinkable Mountain | Michael Kagan
I know if left alone
I would fall from the sky
Of a different world,
I fell long ago from my
Birth sky of blue serenity
And migrated to a place
Of mystery
Where shoes fall like raindrops and laces grow
Into barbed vines
Giving each seeker on the
Other side shallow breathing
Hanging on while bleeding
Peering over surrounding
Hills of weather beaten shoes
Piled spectacles of eyes
long melted
Tons of warm clothing
Hand stitched
Before the world went cold
Mountains of luggage rotting
Traveled the final journey
Masses of bone
Still gripping the handles,
Somewhere in disbelief
Cut down uncles and aunts
And cousins
Run their fingers through
Time’s shining curly locks
Silken cheeked
Seedlings doomed
To remember
Must carry
The stench and brown edges
Of a blue iridescent sky
Hope to Return | Taylor Bourassa
I sat by the window watching the people walk by.
The summer breeze blew through the open window, and you
Sat with your one hand rested on your teacup,
The other gripping the book held so closely to your face.
I tried to write but the words refused to come,
And my paper remained bare.
I drank my coffee, and watched you read…
And now that we no longer walk to Bridgehead and spend our days in
the sunlit cafe,
I think back to our days in Westboro,
And it helps me fill my pages with words of love, sadness, despair…
And hope to return one day.
Beautiful Ghosts | Fotoula Reynolds
A river of memories
Flow into my life
Dancing like dragonflies
Chasing each other
Grey photographs inside
The album of my mind
Fingertips turn pages
On skin is last decade’s dust
Armchair dreams make me smile
Love journeys with heart and hands
Unaccountable footprints
Reach the ancient elm tree
Two bodies ignite the dawn
Dew drops fall from leaf to leaf
And the distance in their eyes is
A homecoming they can’t deny
Beautiful ghosts lay lost
Between walls of heavy sighs
Reminiscing in corridors
Nobody gets away unhurt
A Candle in the Wind | Walid Abdallah
I am a candle in the wind
dancing happily, I pretend
I am always deep under pressure
Suffering from stress with no measure
In silence I always burn
How to survive I should learn
I always live to end others’ night
They think it’s my duty and their right
Nobody cares how I feel
Or cools my wounds that never heal
No dream in my life comes true
Because of winds that always blow
I burn for others’ happiness
I only get their carelessness
I don’t know for how long I should burn
For those who never care or concern
I gradually vanish for their sake
they squeeze my hear and break
I really can’t stand for long
To a place I never belong
I lost the love of my life as a whole
In a world with no substitute at all
She couldn’t stand in the wind with me
Left me in the storm and decided to flee
She took all the sense of life away
And left me in the wind lost and astray
I am half alive and half dead
I can’t bear what she just said
She left and took my heart with her
She never knew how much I care
We become strangers again
As she couldn’t bear the pain
I am a candle in the wind
Only sad sighs I can send