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

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Whispers Within--By Rick Parise--United States

Whispers Within I am the spirit of satin stardust and the antiquities of golden memories alive I call to you from the rising warmth of the ...

Marley's Breakfast--By Elizabeth Howard--United States

Marley's Breakfast Marley awakens while it's still dark, her tummy grumbling with hunger. Her mother who works the night shift at th...

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

New Delhi Railroad Station--By Isha Wagner--New Zealand

New Delhi Railroad Station Hot, tired, dusty, out of sync to the station staggering luggage Swarms of beings standing, bending, lying Dark b...

Vestige--By Cristine A. Gruber--United States

Vestige He didn’t have much in the way of mementos, a bible that belonged to his mama, a tobacco tin that his daddy had used. There were a f...

Monday, November 17, 2014

The Great Depression--By Elizabeth Kral--United States

The Great Depression (In memory of my mother, born 1919) The Great Depression made quite an impression on Mom and her foods of choice. Chick...

Autumn--By Sandra Stefanowich--Canada

Autumn listening as Autumn's voice takes hold aimlessly roaming among the red, green and gold as daylight slowly falls from the sky I...

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Tanka--By ayaz daryl nielsen--United States

autumn’s rose petals gently falling may my years pass with such poise and such grace ayaz daryl nielsen is a husband, father, veteran, x-rou...

Yesterday’s Echo--By Janet Vick--United States

Yesterday’s Echo The yesterdays echoed with anger’s bite while sorrow’s seam unraveled, lost the fight. Regrets were catalogued, redeemed as...

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Memories of Summer Rambles--By Marianne Szlyk--United States

Memories of Summer Rambles A girl of the last century strides along the bike path, past the goldenrod the spiky chicory, and Queen Anne’s la...

Poet of the Month--Sara Kendrick

Strength By Sara Kendrick The trip to church on Sunday wasn't long Down dry dusty country roads closer roamed Hearts did rejoice when si...

Blinded by the Speed of Life--By Joe Flach--United States

Blinded by the Speed of Life I never took the time to speak my love I never told him what I was thinking of I never thanked him for all he h...

Friday, November 14, 2014

To What We Lost--By Jack Horne--England

To What We Lost As you leave, I pass you a poppy in remembrance of our love, bloody and battered. It died on life's battlefield, another...

Dayspring--By Lisa DeVinney--United States

Dayspring Dawn quietly seeps through the porous fog, On this, a shrouded, frosty, autumn morn. The veil begins to lift, the ground to thaw; ...

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Sara Kendrick and Doris Culverhouse--United States

Fisherman By Sara Kendrick and Doris Culverhouse Swimming, life carefree Net tightens around the school Deliverance, grace May your hook alw...

The Warlock’s Rubric--By John Polselli--United States

The Warlock’s Rubric Sail down upon the river, child; Sail on beneath the bridge, Where lives a hidden wizard, mild, Providing tutelag...

How Dare You--By Ndongolera C. Mwangupili--Malawi

How Dare You For Denis, my nephew How dare you die and leave us wondering How you dared dying? Is this one Of those games you like playing -...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Forever There Within Our Minds--By Marcus Omer--United States

Forever There Within Our Minds ( For Chad ) The days of weeping slowly pass, but still within the question why a life so young could not las...

before dusk settles--By David J. Kelly--Ireland

before dusk settles Herb Robert’s dainty wavering in the gentle evening breeze … Hart’s Tongue ferns now savouring the dewfall, by degrees …...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veterans Day Tribute--By Karen O'Leary--United States

Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Thank you to all the Veterans, Current Military Personnel, Law Enforcement Officials and their ...

The Ocean and Me--By Tom Davis--United States

The Ocean and Me I love the Ocean the sound of waves thrashing the shore the crunch of wet sand under bare feet the smell of seaweed and bak...

Frosted Panes--By Elaine George--Canada

Frosted Panes When winter paints those frosty ferns on my windowpane, I find myself a little girl up on your lap again; In that old house, t...

Monday, November 10, 2014

Hey Hank, Did You Just--By Tim Ryerson--United States

Hey Hank, Did You Just - hi-jack my haiku? Hah! You hi-jacked the wrong ku You stole a senryu I hide my haikus safe and sound beneath silly....

memories...By Gert W. Knop--Germany

In my memories Edinburgh in mist Raindrops like dew Gert W. Knop, born in 1943, studies art and tropical agriculture in Germany and Scotland...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Winter Wonderland--By Christine Tate--United States

Winter Wonderland Winter makes its grand debut as it obeys the good Lord's cue. old man sun sneaks a peek behind clouds with fuchsia str...

Adieu...--By Dr. Upma A. Sharma--India

Adieu to green sheet, Twilight lends its orange charm, Crispy brown runway, Yellow beguiles all around, Reddish hue across the blue ! Passio...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

If Walls Could Talk--By Peter Dome--United Kingdom

If Walls Could Talk The moonlight creeps in like a thief through an arched Gothic window, casting dark, long shadows upon cold sandstone wal...

Haiku/Senryu--By Robert Epstein--United States

sun behind clouds a stranger not yet open to kindness _______________ Father's Day I sign the card and give it to myself _______________...

Friday, November 7, 2014

Revelations of Sight and Soul--By Jean Calkins--United States

Revelations of Sight and Soul Sun reflects off virgin clouds that scud over autumn-hued mountaintops. Cool nights, warm days, have painted t...

Fata Morgana--By Elly Wouterse--Netherlands

Fata Morgana wandering in unassailable jungles of sand grains deeply hidden between highest hills and long valleys and endless colorless sha...

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Haiku--By Barbara Tate--United States

midnight thunder the buffalo spirits come to earth _______________ heat waves the sweet aroma of quiet illusion _______________ winter eveni...

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