Reverse Profile - Vladimir Martinovski

An
Error has
Sneaked by
In
The Book
Of Marriage:
The registry number
Of the bride
Lacks a digit

Surprised by day not breaking - Jean Portante

Surprised by day not breaking any more the moon
and the sun like two old underground thieves
relit the torch and set off. I'm sure that
anyone who'd seen their feeble gleam from a
distance would have felt sorry for them.

Ocean, Waves, and Wind: A Song on the Nature of Mind - Tsangnyön Heruka

Namo guru!
The ocean of mind is stirred by the wind of grasping at subject and object.
The childish take the waves of appearance as something to reject.
For the wise, the waves are none other than the water itself.

You - Bruce Levitan

If I had one wish
I would not need it
because I have you;

Sunset tears - John Kasaipwalova

The dancing wavetops poke their tongues
Laughing to cry their sadness
They swell to catch the painted sky
They bend to summon the blackness of the ocean depths
Always dancing, turning crisping fall and slide

Sea Turtle Sonnet - Zeina Hashem Beck

Our parents stayed during the civil war.
Don’t say we escaped, just that we too failed.
We left Beirut on the verge of collapse
& revolution. That clearing of hope,
where would we be without it? Ask Ziad,

Home - Pio Manoa

Beneath that tree is buried
the lifecord.
The energy that pulses
through that trunk,
up into those branches
is within us too
by a power of exchange,
of life-sharing…

Hope - Edith Södergran

I want to let go -
so I don't give a damn about fine writing,
I'm rolling my sleeves up.

Show Your Love - Akiko Yosano

I cannot bear
the faint smile
you display to others.

Why does my lover rage - Moses ibn Ezra

Why does my lover rage and tyrannize me,
      While my heart
            Bends like a reed to him?