My First Kiss by Joni Caggiano

freckles rearranging erotic patterns on pale, poreless skin cotton candy, and elephant ears dripping in sugar and butter air shifts smell mixing with scented moments, holds onto life white eyelet dress clings to sun-soaked skin; its holes breathe virgin lips plump, yearn for a first kiss, weary of practicing guilty for praying for my first…

Blue Notes by Joni Caggiano

hearts melting red trickling down hardwoods solitary trumpet blowing blue notes calling dolefully floating through my window, I ensue a corner that may hold a shadow laugh of you cigar smoke lingers in stale air by our old bar trumpet tears create a puddle outside the door cobblestones hold echoes of honest laughter your voice,…

What If by Michelle Ayon – Navajas

what if we didn’t meet?  what if it didn’t happen?  what if our hearts did not collide?  what if our bodies did not unite?  ’twas like a movie, in full production  i was the star, and you; just being you, in anticipation  you said your “hello,” i think i said “hi” in return  i felt…

Touch and Taste by Jeff Flesch

every little touch, and taste takes me to another place desire afire, living inside the tranquility of the seas with dark blue and indigo too a backdrop of the love inside our truth they live in the skies burnt amber, and copper filled jewels, raining down love on me and you -JEFF FLESCH Jeff grew…

Anniversary by Grace Y. Estevez – Reddy

Inhaling each breath you exhale,knowing our love could never fail.A part of me lives in your eyes,your presence makes my spirit fly. We met each other magically,to change our lives so drastically.Enhanced by our diversity,our love extends eternally. Swimming through life, collecting facts,while gaining proof that pile in stacks.Flying in our own hourglass,forming fond memories…

Night Tide by Jeff Flesch

I alight on a star it’s farther than I’ve ever been before a thousand miles away from you I transfix my eyes on all the galaxies next door while knowing they are reminiscent of a time before our love was larger than the sun in the sky within my heart you always did shine like…

My Flavors by Joni Caggiano

sipping me softly through a fairy’s straw sampling each flavor you whisper, it is my essence you savor arousing monarch butterflies now swing singing ballads to start flutes and a fluttering of my loving heart -JONI CAGGIANO Joni’s blog is Rum and Robots, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories. Take a look…

Moon’s Dust by Jeff Flesch

drips drop from the top of a stopwatch as the minutes until we meet cascade over my heart watching the fear depart say you’ll love me until the last act of the art leaves forever and may we impart and imprint upon our collective souls the deep need for a fire so bold continuing to…

Ravens Flying On Wings by Jeff Flesch

the curtains, pulled tight, made of silk, and reminiscent of the night, reminds me of a time, before transgression, and possessions of body and mind, the duality of all, a kind, and gentle love… rich as the heavens are deep, broad, and glistening, ravens flying on wings of courage seep into time fleeting, yet still…

Morning Eyes by Janani Arvind

Sweet voice of a songbirda crow’s caw cutting throughthe crunching of beans in the coffee machinemoist and cold and warm at the same timeunder the sheets, sprawled over your chestnever woken to a better morning evera sigh, a caress, a kissyour awareness and my sleepy yawnsuntangling limbs and the pour of fresh coffeeparting mist, warming…

The Landlord’s Wife by Isha Garg

This is a page, dear reader, from my life about a love both secret and unspoken, for, you see, she was the landlord’s wife – and I, a lonely surveyor and month-long tenant. On a misty eve in an icy, grey November, did I make my way to her elegant door; as the mountains with…