Latest Poems
I am Still Singing
By Basman Derawi
I stand at my window.
The weather is cold
But I still stand,
Watching the empty streets
Running from the death demons
Whispering in my ears.
A Covid Christmas
By Lucy Gamon
Little Johny’s feeling sad
‘Cause Gramps has Covid very bad.
John’s writing Santa Claus a letter
In hopes that he can make things better.
Pandemic
By Claire Unis
A haze filters the morning sun,
hanging like smoke,
a stench
wending its way
into consciousness.
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