Spirit Ariela Oliver… Falling

Posted on October 25, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Falling

Rain is falling all around

The dew drops from my mindv

Plop plop plops

goes the drops

The plot of my story.

There is a dry spot to sit

I feel rainy today

who knows when the rain will fall on me?

There is a fear of getting wet, cold

and being unable to get dry and warm again.

I can not control the rain.

I am a leaf on a tree

an ever-changing leaf.

Perfect in imperfection,

finished

yet unfinished in every way

strange and beautiful

unique unto a leaf on a tree

and the elements that shape it.

I don’t know just when I lost control,

but do know I was afraid.

A fearful leaf on a tree,

ss-shivering in the wind.

Awake full of color, full of sound

floating falling downdowndown.

Spirit Ariela Olivier is a poet and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. She has been writing poetry since she was old enough to hold a crayon. She writes poems without a wall to bounce them off. Her work is an invitation for you to peruse the secrets of her soul. She currently resides in sunny Los Angeles. This is her second work to be published.

Copyright © 2015 by Spirit Ariela Olivier

B.Z. Niditch… 20/20

Posted on October 18, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

20/20

Fervent

to explore miles

all that’s out

with Beat Poet eyes,

the Beatles,

now in Japanese

Dylan Thomas

Spinning with us

by the bee colony

investigation

out on the islands

close to lyrics,

at first shy

then exploding

in optimum visions.

B.Z. Niditch is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher who resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including:Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; HawaiiReview; LeGuepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Budapest); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others. His latest poetry collections are “Lorca at Sevilla”,”Captive Cities.”

Copyright © 2015 by B.Z. Niditch

Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni… Candy is Bad

Posted on October 11, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Candy is Bad

…., a lollipop is something sweet and sour stuck in a mouth that cannot open out the jaws in an outcry of anguish, or clench teeth in disgust. Candy fills spaces between painful instances and slithers citrusy sugar down the throat. Such cramped quarters. A cobweb glows in the dark and sums up Halloween.

Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni is a writer, poet and artist from Singapore. In the summer 2014, she participated in the Advanced Non-Fiction Seminar conducted by the International Writing Program, Univ. of Iowa. She enjoys interviewing poets and writers from her website is wordsatnine.com

Louis Marvin… Little White Haired Japanese Lady

Posted on October 4, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Little White Haired Japanese Lady

we are into you for at least 120 grand

10 years and a few days change

saltines in a cracker box

she sweeps away the leaves and wilted flowers

they take the trash away

the Chinese mother started a conversation with you. . .

on and on it has gone

10 years of life tracking, story swapping

talk-about what ails ya

they can forgive the forthright Chinese woman

bring the chastisements for her haole husband

he rubs us the wrong way like the desert does a thirsty man

Louis Marvin-tour guide-poet-gigolo born Burbank, raised hell phoenix, lives/loves the Chinese girls in the Pacific island read a poem where the Gin Blossoms played in Tempe, AZ (no one threw a bottle or up)

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