Image Credit: Pexels- Nuto Sorokina Birds warble softly behind trees Golden rays flicker through the leaves. Wind drifts through my tangled hair Nostalgia lingers in the air. Dogs chase echoes in the forest’s core, Where laughter and peace are lost evermore. Joy was a canvas we once used to paint, Now faded and broken by…

Image Credit: Pexels- Anne Svets When I look at you, my grandchild, You remind me of me, When I, too, was a child, Squinting beside my granny’s knees. Your eyes and how they stare, Your lips and how they smile; Whenever I see your face, My mind runs back to the past too far. When…

Image Credit: Pexels Ah serenity In you, I find peace, A peace I always wanted By the clouds, I rest my head By the stars, I claim my rest Look how my veins sleep They haven’t done so in a thousand years. Like the sun, I wish to shine A light that never fades, My…

Image Credit: Unsplash- Norikio Yamamoto The grass on the other side may be greener. But if you started watering your own, it could easily become just as green, or even greener. Put your focus where it belongs. This was written by our contributing writer, Luna Baic.

Image Credit: Unsplash in the depths of silence,  i wandered through shadows,  unaware of the dawn that awaited,  the creeping warmth of a new beginning. isn’t it strange? how beautifully maddening life can be? but now,  i embrace the light, learning to smile again as it fills my heart. take a leap of faith- an…

Image Credit: Unsplash: dulgeon- George Dulishkovych The feeling of emptiness takes over Curled up in the bed, you don’t want to leave In a room no bigger than a prison cell Doors are banging, music plays, and people are talking in the garden But you stay curled up in your bed. Your mind takes over,…

Image Source: Pexels- Stephen Leonardi On Good Friday, we crack eggs and usher prayers over  offerings of French Toast drip          drip                       dripping  over the wet of the yolk to make angel smiles of yellow boomerangs on countertops against napkin folds piecing together my own  portrait of sunshine to fill our bellies with the sweetness of…

Image Source: Unsplash- Luke Schlanderer The piano has every potential to create masterpieces To summon tears or slow dances To some, this is recognized To the artist, this is a prized possession And cared for as such The piano in his house will only ever receive soft and gentle touches Dusted daily Yet, Yet in…

Image Source: Pexels- Tim Mossholder Freeing the belief of demeaning, retrieving of misleading thoughts. Working to the freedom of inner demons that claw at the seams of hopeful dreams.  Decaying as I’m fraying, delaying what is to come. Never-ending, condescending. Liberation for a declaration of limitations that don’t exist. This was written by our contributing…

Image Source: Unsplash- Ivan Lapyrin Cradled in the crook  of the lyrics that haunt my bedtimes both the old and new:  a bundled unit tacky with old glue trying to destabilise the aging versions  of me and you, weaving myself amongst the constellations  in the hierarchies of the stars starting so small yet  dreaming so…