Poetry > Dark

A quietly refection on love and life experience, immersed in sarcasm, ripe in ruin.This is first publication of poetry from Laura Castro.

The Devil whispered, "I have some gifts for you, Dear." Her lower lip trembled and twitched, stained with blood and wine. The Devil whispered, "Do not fear, My Dear, you will be fine." She sighed, relented, unwrapping the gifts presented. There in the box, withered and black, was The Devil's Heart. The Devil whispered, "Please, My Dear, do not give it back or rip it apart." She laughed and smiled,just a bit hesitant. "Never, Never! Will I ever return such a beautiful present!"

"Sometimes we speak up for the silenced. Sometimes we write for the silenced souls. Lukas Alan, historian, poet, and criminal justice reform advocate gives voice to the silence in his poetry anthology "For God's Throw Away Children." The poems resurrect the lives of the orphaned, the abandoned, the insane, the paupers from abandoned places in Minnesota and Wisconsin. In an excerpt from the poem "Aztalan," "our voices preserved in dried jars under stitched mounds, of seeded grounds mausoleums the sarcophagus of memories and clay," it evokes the reverence and reflection regarding the times and places in various stages of decomposition--dug up by an archeologist of images, rather than ...

Straight outta everywhere, Cracker with Gratitude’s dorky, divine and *sometimes* rhyming poetry is bound to transport listeners to another dimension. Ranging from devotional ‘I wanna marry the river’ type poems to raunchy lesbian clit bits, CwG brings the wit. The ultimate Wise Cracker, Eugena Maguire, will bring the poems that resin-ate like epoxy puttin’ on yo ritz.