More Poetry by Patricia Roche

Living In a Fish Bowl
 
Looking out the window
Nature has its own disguise
 
Trapped behind four walls of glass
No one knows who I am?
Or my past!
Faceless is the lonely souls
Behind the reflection of glass
 
Time has just evolved
Shadows, reflections
Looking through the window
Where no doors pass
 
Like a flower blossoms in a vase
Stands still in a crowd
No one notices!
 
The world [...]

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Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson

A poet, and freelance writer, Michael Lee Johnson is self-employed in advertising, and selling custom promotional products.  He is the author of The Lost American:  From Exile to Freedom, http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7.  He has published two chapbooks of poetry.   A contributor in the Silver Boomers poetry anthology about aging baby boomers, by Silver Boomer Books,  he resides in Itasca,  Illinois, United States.   He lived in Canada during the Vietnam era and will be published as [...]

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Poetry by Patricia Roche

Poem by Patricia Roche:
RESCUE ME
 
From myself!
Living in a 9 by 10 room
Blinds shut by an umbilical cord
 
Papers on the windows
Castrated by life
Cut off from my parents
Discipline was their sword
 
It is hard to believe
My life was trapped
Behind the thickness of a door
 
No one would knock
No one would talk
I was completely ignored
 
Days turned into years
Birthdays & holidays
Never [...]

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Poetry by Ed Coet:

Ed Coet is a retired US Army officer, a professional educator, and a widely published freelance writer and poet. Ed has had numerous articles published on a variety of topics. Ed’s short stories, David’s Angel, Big Bertha, and Simon and Papa John were published in the popular EzineBewildering Stories and in Author’s Den.com. Big Bertha was also published in Scribal Tales magazine. Ed Coet’s poems have [...]

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