Thank You to “Feed the Holy” for publishing my poetry
Pushcart Prize Nominations
Congratulations to all the nominees for the Pushcart Prize. May 2025 be the time for your works to be showcased by Pushcart Press. Best Wishes! You are still winners in our book!
Sarfraz Ahmed, Arlene Bice, and Yasmin S Brown’s poems were all published in the Cadence Anthology. Joni Caggiano’s poem is from her book “One Petal at a Time.” Nolcha Fox’s poem is from her latest book “Words into Elephants.”
Ten Things of Thankful-November 10, 2024
- our backyard
- Fresh flowers
- Squirrel loving the nature’s leftovers in the planter. Funny to watch it nom nom on greenery.
- Rains of golden leaves
- Meeting the big deadline.
- Errands with sweetheart.
- Comfort food
- Reading
- Writing when not feeling it
- you – What’s up?
Perfect Poetry by Chyrel J Jackson
This is What I Have to Say
This is what I have to say, today
The waves of blue as compared to a rampant red – raggedy one
Blasted to the world of need,
With a course toward peace with equality, freedom, real kingdom come
if you will
Disrupted by the red-robed rage
And strange bedfellows with real evil
if you will
as they Blast that red – white – quit claim on the blue – train
Powered up – down the track like a mad whistler
Ready to storm into the night, no doubt
with white lights powered by billionaires
Reflections on white hoods, only this time it’s different
Enslaved people are already numbered
There’s the take Back to the times when slaves hid
There’s plenty to Back-track do you remember and worse to go forward
Shots fired with no regrets Back then and Now it’s come Back
Mentally deranged leadership takes over and ruins the children
So, tell me now
This is what you wanted
Then step off my porch
I may not be able to whistle, nor even shout loud enough
For what it’s worth
My home is open to Peace, my brothers and sisters
Let’s go to the altar of humankind
Embrace one another
We never needed each other more
Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld 11/07/2024
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