Tonight I’m free. I didn’t die or write.
No all-nighter Delilah blinded me.
My eyes don’t burn like Satan’s grill. When light
rolls with the globe to blaze the cherry tree
and cause the moles and worms to underground, I rest in dream.
Category: Poetry
Poem-A-Week – Charles Harper Webb
It does no good to scream, call names, threaten to sue;
your abuser has heard it all before.
Write, instead, a sonata full of unresolved…
Poem-A-Week at Life and Legends
Life and Legends is pleased to announce a new feature, “Poem-a Week,” beginning from June 1st, 2021. The weekly blog will feature new and published poems on varied themes, including topical events by new and previously published poets of Life and Legends, chosen by our editorial team. The poem in this series will appear every Tuesday of the week. We hope you enjoy this feature. We welcome your valuable comments and testimonials.
Poetry Films by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
There has been a growing interest in poetry films and videos among writers, poets, and poetry lovers. This feature is inspired by popular demand to publish poetry films and videos made by writers and poets. River of Songs, The Jungle I, and The Jungle II poetry films are based on a series of short poems…
Lynn White
. Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today‘ competition and has been nominated…
Megha Sood
. Megha Sood is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet writer and editor. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is a contributing author at GoDogGO Cafe, Candles Online, Free Verse Revolution, Whisper and the Roar, Poets Corner and contributing editor at Ariel Chart. Her 290+ works have been featured in 521 Magazine #Sideshow, Oddball,…
Ram Krishna Singh
. Ram Krishna Singh has been writing for about four decades. Professionally, till the end of 2015, Professor of English (HAG) at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, he has published more than 160 research articles, 175 book reviews and 46 books, including God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within (2017), There’s No Paradise and Other Selected Poems…
Roger Singer
. Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,150 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society. Some of the magazines that have accepted his…
Sanjeev Sethi
. Sanjeev Sethi is published in over 30 countries. He has more than 1400 poems printed or posted in literary venues around the world. Wrappings in Bespoke, is joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press UK. It is his fourth book. It will be launched in Jan 2021. He lives…
Benjamin Schmitt
. Benjamin Schmitt is the author of three books, most recently Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, The Good Men Project, Hobart, Worcester Review, Columbia Review, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At…
Christina E. Petrides
. Christina E. Petrides lives on Jeju Island, South Korea. She is the author of the children’s book Blueberry Man (Tchaikovsky Family Books, 2020) and more than a score of poems published in various English-language periodicals. . Decomposition She recalls the rainbow on a puddle, engine oil spreading thin and iridescent, winking at the wider…
Mark Parsons
. Mark Parsons’ poems have been published in Chariton Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Iodine Poetry Journal, subTerrain, Emerge, Mad Hat Lit, Wisconsin Review, and elsewhere. . Were I To Say . That every time I hear your name I’ll think of dead mosquitoes, or dead AA battery cells, or buying a watch from a watch…