GENRE: Childhood, Love, Loss, Lust, Depression FRAGMENTS by Melissa R. Mendelson A baby cries to be held. An eight-year-old dances around with a beautiful smile on her angelic face. A girl shoves boys, who push her around. She hides in the corner again. She stopped smiling, and depression has set in. She was innocent and… Continue reading FRAGMENTS, Poetry by Melissa R. Mendelson
Category: love
Soules, Poetry by Ayah Aly
I have rummaged through octaves
And skin hues and hair bushels of all sorts
Searching for my profoundly dead ancestors
In women with Emmett’s sunset eyes
And men with Maya’s sandstone-like stature
Not quite unintentionally, barely efficaciously.
Then there was you.
