Stanzaic Stylings

Lynn Long Book Page at Cyberwit https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/1288 Lynn Long Nature's Musings http://www.lulu.com/shop/lynn-long/natures-musings/paperback/product-24062476.html Feel the moment It's all the rage To love one's self Fool or Sage Breathe in  Breathe out Awaken your soul Be in the now and just let  go... For there is no other time in which to be So feel the moment And, set yourself  free... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The present lost  is time missed For the moment  ceases to exist

Write My Name O Baghdad, write down my name on a list of young dead civilians being alive doesn't always mean everything is alright with me I talk with tears falling on my heart I listen with tears falling on my face I see with tears falling on my spirit my life has been worse than it seems my shadow loses me whenever I want to walk to the cemetery, only because I have missed my friends who are no longer around me; nor longer in this world O Montreal, forgive me for my weakness I am just tired of being strong for too long write my name on the waiting list of death So, I can sleep with my open wounds Sensitive The clouds are coming back With a seasonal race between the holy rain and my salty tears creating a bridge to chase me away only because I have been sensitive I am all alone under the drops of rain singing my misery to a broken tree since we are broken, waiting on death people say that I should more open friends are just actors in my jo

Michael Ceraolo is a 61-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) and several shorter-length books published, and has a third full-length book, Euclid Creek Book Two, forthcoming from unbound content press. Out of the Game This is a story of baseball: most here played,                            though not all played in the majors; others of us were involved in the game in different peripheral ways Some of us achieved fame Some achieved shame Some were between the two extremes Few of us are remembered nowadays Some of us stayed in the game in other ways after our playing days were over,                                                  and all of us are out of the game now, permanently,                     yet here we are able to have one more say

Bio ; Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His work has appeared in print and online journals globally and has poems translated into several languages. He has been nominated for Best of the Net 2018. He is the author of The Bleeding Heart Poet, Love On The War’s Frontline, Gas Chamber, Wounds from Iraq, and Roofs of Dreams. He lives in Montreal, Canada. Cried on My Own I said a few silly jokes, people laughed at me I shared my pain, people judged me I tried to focus on my happiness, but I failed terribly I learned to write poetry and cried on my own

Lynn Long Book Page at Cyberwit https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/1288 Lynn Long Nature's Musings http://www.lulu.com/shop/lynn-long/natures-musings/paperback/product-24062476.html Shadows Tis not only the night In which darkness reigns For shadows can loom On the brightest of days So beware of the light In which you seek For darkness follows In the shadow of dreams...

Lynn Long Book Page at Cyberwit https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/1288 Lynn Long Nature's Musings http://www.lulu.com/shop/lynn-long/natures-musings/paperback/product-24062476.html To whom does this life belong she silently pondered- for it cannot be mine... can it? Realizing she was but a mere speck of intergalactic stardust; her woes no longer seemed quite so large Caught up in dreams and fantasy she couldn't see the wonder of her own reality... So she chose to make reality part of the dream... For he said the dream was true and together- we make it real