Poetry
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as poetry, both long form and short.
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“EDGEWOOD ORCHARD GALLERIES” by John Walser
“As I hurried past the wasps and bees, down the stairs, out the screen door that slapped shut with a twang of its tight spring, I hoped that my paintings would still be there when I could afford them.”
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“If You Were to Ask Me Love” by Demetrius Buckley
“You never told me about the blueberry milkshake or if it rained, thundered, or heavily hailed waiting behind a McDonalds.”
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“Luminous” by Camille LeFevre
“Not lunatic, but lunar, we face you, without question, sure in our waxing and waning.”
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“Homeland” by Siavash Saadlou
Norooz is here at last, darling…time for yet Another new beginning for a homeland I can Hardly call my own now.
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“When the enemy is despair what then will you do?” by Sean Mahoney
“Once upon a time in a construct of your own making or maybe not your own making as it is all upstairs…”
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“Summer Rain” by Joan Mazza
“After July’s heat wave now a steady rain.”
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“are the stars you see at night already dead?” by Lorelei Bacht
the pain you baked into my bones is astronomical.
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“Do not think of those who have died as Dead; rather, they are Alive and with their Lord” by Isra Cheema
They are you. You are them. Say their names.
