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, July 15, 2016

Creating--By David Fox--United States

Creating In a cozy café of soft repose I write a harmony of original and aesthetic masterpieces In rhythm with the rain. ...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

A Mingled Cup--By Neil Creighton--Australia

A Mingled Cup When upon the world of men I think, Its tender love, its lust for power, A disturbing, mingled cup I drink With tastes b...

Haiku--By Elizabeth Howard--United States

dark sky for a fleeting moment one faint star _____________ evening in the meadow sandhill cranes dancing with the stars _...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Tanka--By Aju Mukhopadhyay--India

on its way home the kite carries in its wings the orange love of the setting sun ______________ with abounding joy fraught...

Waiting--By Christine Tate--United States

Waiting We wait for most appointments and on endless check-out lines, in long, boring traffic jams and always at stop signs... ...

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Wild Fruit--By Lynn White--Wales

Wild Fruit I like the wild berries best. Juice spilling over. Bursting, staining my tongue purple or my lips red. Each one a new sen...

The Visit--By Jennifer Criss--United States

The Visit I felt a cold chill on that warm night and I thought it might have been you paying me a visit. I felt icy fingers...

Monday, July 11, 2016

Captivating Titles--Whispers' July Writing Exercise

Dear Whispers Readers, Titles are our first opportunity to capture a reader’s attention, yet so many times I feel a bit disappointed wh...

Praise From God--By Evelyn Splane--Canada

Praise From God Some day before the Judge we'll stand, While Record Books are in His hand. Nothing from His eye is hid, Of all t...

Aerogramme--By Nivedita N (Divenita Er)--United States

Aerogramme Her hands shivered as Hima tore along the sides of the letter her eyes widened while reading the words dipped in the e...

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Haiku--By Ralph Stott--England

glasses full of rain paper umbrellas _____________ empty glasses a man signs the air _____________ mother's crysta...

Mother, Edith, at 98--By Michael Lee Johnson--United States

Mother, Edith, at 98 Edith, in this nursing home you're blind with macular degeneration─ I come to you with your blurry eyes,...

Saturday, July 9, 2016

River Hands--By Tricia Knoll--United States

River Hands I saw ripening first on the backs of my hands – age speckles and pouchy fists, wrinkles like retreating tide marks in s...

The Last Swift--By Gareth Culshaw--Wales

The Last Swift The last swift is bringing down the sky. He is doing the caretaker rounds before the night caps the day. The oth...

Friday, July 8, 2016

All I Need--By Carolyn Martin--United States

All I Need A few skyward things: one steady star to guide, one constellation to bet a myth upon, one quasar to break the dark. Th...

Edenic--By David Palmer--United States

Edenic Upon these banks where You fashion’d my soul, Please pronounce again your Divine blessing, “It is not good for Dave to be al...

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Haiku--By Gert W. Knop--Germany

early morning rigidly sculptured as stone a grey heron _______________ yellowed photos almost forgotten in album become alive...

Quiet Appreciation--By Lois Greene Stone--United States

Quiet Appreciation Sunlight warms my skin, while raindrops remind me of summer sprinklers. Snow on my eyelashes, and autumn lea...

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Owl See You--By Jan Allison--United Kingdom

Owl See You Please don’t ruffle my feathers It is very rude when you stare I have the most sensitive hearing And I know you are l...

That Granite Needle--By G. Louis Heath--United States

That Granite Needle The tall obelisk in the cemetery across from my third-floor office submits to the will of the sun this blue mor...

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Michael Todd, Sheri Green, Beth Holmes, Wynne Huddleston, Anna Donovan, Joleene Naylor, and Julie Catherine Vigna—United States

Vacating The Premises Now, appears the time, Vacating the premises Seems the best option. There is nothing left. Doubts whisper upo...

Earth--By Richard Sponaugle--United States

Earth The earth was long considered flat That’s where worldly wisdom was at Til some mapmaker found The world to be quite round ...

Registering change--By Sunil Sharma--India

Registering change The dawn… anticipated the dusk…dreaded by the figure strapped to a catheter on a steel rod eyes drugged ...

Monday, July 4, 2016

Poetry Moments--By Cynthia Sidrane--United States

clouds thick as mortar but wind-carved chinks of blue sky mean it might not rain _________________ curtain of long leaves parted...

Beach Nightfall--By Robert L. Porter, Jr.--United States

Beach Nightfall Pelicans flying home in single-file flights. Glowing gold hues and darkening blue sights; Mists flowing slowly over...

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Haiku--By Ron C. Moss--Australia

newborn foal a barn door left open to the rain ________________ starless night a paper coffee cup in the frost ____________...

Character--By Sara Kendrick--United States

Character As the sunlight permeates the fog Revealing dust's debris Sunbeams filter within the soul Exposes faults carefree ...

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Rain Dance--By Maricris Cabrera--Philippines

Rain Dance You're searching your whole life searching for gold fine gold leaf makes a fine headdress head and hands thick a...

If A Poet, I Found I Could Never Be--By Robert Lindley--United States

If A Poet, I Found I Could Never Be If a poet, found myself not to be, would vivid colors lose their awesome splash. Could life rac...

Friday, July 1, 2016

Prayer--By Neena Singh--India

Prayer There are a thousand ways to pray Visiting temples is not the only way The little bird that sings so sweet Praises God ...

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