Whispers...

Painting pictures with words. Opening a part of the soul. Emotion flowing with the lines. Tapestry skillfully woven. Reflecting thoughts artfully. Yearning to make a difference. --Karen O'Leary--Whispers' Editor

Friday, October 31, 2014

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Thank you for considering Whispers for a place to share your writing. The guidelines follow: 1. Submissions of unpublished and previous...

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Season for Living--By Karen O'Leary--United States

Season for Living Closing her journal of frosty thoughts, the fever of mourning for justice is past. The army will not unlock the secrets of...

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Over Pumpkins on the Vine--By Stacy Savage--United States

Over Pumpkins on the Vine When ripe pumpkins on the vine And golden stalks are all in line, And the wind sets sail the leaves, And there’s b...

Deep Country Autumn--By Brian Whatcott--United States

Deep Country Autumn I rode by in country sand, michaelmas daisies smiling left and right; wild plums in green dress, daisies in white. The f...

Monday, October 27, 2014

My Darling Ann--By Robert Hewett Sr.--United States

My Darling Ann Blow Wind, Blow, this hull’s gonna hold, Pitch and Dive, crackle boards and roll, Roaring waves twisting us askew, I must ...

What Is Poetry?--By Jim Teeters--United States

What Is Poetry? In the beginning was the Word -John 1:1 It’s only words words only, yes that only – but wait an arrangement of wo...

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Haiku--By Ron Moss--Australia

riding high on dad’s shoulders I touched the moon _______________ dying nettlefold the hardness of veins in my father's hands __________...

Awaiting Halloween--By Russell Sivey--United States

Awaiting Halloween My front door, the color of pumpkins As a skeleton adorns the screen door Jack-o-lanterns plenty about the porch And spid...

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Whimpering Miracle--By Kevin Bates--United States

Whimpering Miracle Sets out as he does everyday the constant work he is assigned. Whimpered cries in a distance, first thought to be dying a...

clouds hover...By Shivapriya Ganapathy--India

clouds hover over twinkling stars- a blackout poem f r a m e d by my window Shivapriya Ganapathy is from Kanchipuram, India. She graduated w...

Friday, October 24, 2014

To Face the Day--By Peggy Heinrich--United States

To Face the Day Sleep is the little death that surfaces each day in the sullen morning face the bathroom mirror frames the puffy eyes, pouch...

Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Yancy Lee and Diana Dalton--United States

Pain Play By Yancy Lee and Diana Dalton Pain and injury, not easily tolerated Hurting topped by expenses generated Popping controversial Dr....

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Meditation on an Artist--By Darrell Lindsey--United States

Meditation on an Artist He painted men with long beards and missing teeth, bent women with canes, lonely children walking through meadows on...

A Prophet : Defining the Term--By Robert A. Dufresne--United States

A Prophet : Defining the Term A Prophet is not one who can predict future acts. He’s given the grace to see and relate the facts. To those w...

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Autumn Acrostic--By Yancy Lee Dalton--United States

Autumn Acrostic Autumn chills all the air we inhale Undermining the template scale Tempting some in art of giving up Under influence of bitt...

The Shape of Inexistence--By Ali Znaidi--Tunisia

The Shape of Inexistence When the night comes existence takes the shape of inexistence for those who have no home but the streets’ laps, for...

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Autumn's Last Leaf--By James Rasmusson--United States

Autumn's Last Leaf Before the biting arctic wind autumn's last leaf helplessly clings. Other leaves, less tenacious lie wet and matt...

Poems for Someone--By George L. Ellison--England

Poems for Someone Rhyming poetry short or long Gets my muse in the mood to write Endeavour to make words a song Give all I can not to sound ...

Monday, October 20, 2014

Eternity Anew--By Erich J. Goller--United States

Eternity Anew (Ameri-Sonnet) For the morning’s sky of blue Thy love you have given me Has turned all my thoughts to you To share all the joy...

Tree Whispers--By Joan McNerney--United States

Tree Whispers Blue diamond rains filigree of golden light so many shades of green. Sun beams on a single leaf. This small star pulsating fro...

Sunday, October 19, 2014

River Laps Softly--By Robert Lindley--United States

River Laps Softly The ripples of water lap river's edge quietly I sit, a man seeking love The orange twilight stirs my lonely soul nearb...

Whirlwind--By Robert P. Hansen--United States

Whirlwind A whirlwind twisted through the streets and settled in a lonesome heart; It’s rhythmic thrum of hungry lust— a need so strong it s...

Saturday, October 18, 2014

With Wide Ears--By Keith O. J. Hunt--Canada

With Wide Ears Listen to the wind..... as she sings in her quiet lisps, and sighs the past and gusts with earnest need; Listen to the tenets...

Rosemary Smith--By Linda Hurdwell--England

Rosemary Smith Rosemary Smith is a slip of a girl With thick brown hair that just won’t curl. And eyes a shade of darkest blue That stare di...

Friday, October 17, 2014

Sonnet for the Vietnam Dead--By Robert A. Hall--United States

Sonnet for the Vietnam Dead They were but boys, whose lives you threw away. They went because the country asked them to, And served a cause ...

yet there are still--By jani johe webster--United States

yet there are still the october nights hold a chill and the dawn speaks of frost the kills these disintegrated dreams from another autum...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Faraway Woman--By Donna Bowring--United States

Faraway Woman She walks alone on a high mountain glides barefoot through Arabian sands. She communes with old gods in the high desert builds...

Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Andrea Dietrich--United States and Jan Allison--United Kingdom

Poor Peter Pumpkin By Andrea Dietrich and Jan Allison Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head. So the farmer made him stay inside the ...

Loyal Friends--By John W. (Bill) Williams--United States

Loyal Friends Loyal friends are compassionate and kind. They are like a light that warms the heart when things go wrong. Loyal friends do no...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Waves--By Phyllis Babcock--Canada

Waves Forever relentless, always receding with all of it's power pushes hour after hour Unending sounds carried on the wind rolling in r...

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