Ironically, the passion that can neutralize the repulsion for difficulties depends on the effort to overcome these difficulties. The irony resides in the circularity of this principle ¨C which applies to all areas of activity, including poetry: One ...

Real Power.

One Tsunami, and all our armies,
\rSeem belittled by their wars,
\rWhat Animals fled, and tribesmen read,
\rFinally Arrives with crushing roar,
\rWholesale slaughter, purely by water,
\rMakes us seem an irrelevance ...

Kafka lands resurrected in Crewe\rdeposited by a silvery alien craft,\rAnd whilst he is wondering what to do\rHe is asked to show his pass\rOr pay an instant one off fine\rAt a cash dispenser of his choice\rAnd they are checking all the time\rOn h ...

Amy King's first full-length collection, Antidotes for an Alibi, insists that we examine the deceptive clarity of our actions and the goals that motivate us. How does one actually get from "A" to "B¡±¡ªand is there ever really a ¡°B¡±? What color is t ...

Amy King\rAntidotes for an Alibi\rBlazeVox Books\rISBN 0-9759227-5-0\r2005

These poems read to me like poetry versions of flash fiction. Now, I like flash fiction very much, but I like the more fabulistic kind. Amy King is writing ...

You speak simple, completley understandable
\rjustifications
\rI respect them, respect you, honor what you tell me
\rand even though I know where you're coming from,
\rI just wanted to share with you, let you hear:
\rmy heart...it's ...

Explore the meaning of poetry and the motivation of poets with this special collection of evocative quotations...

1. "A poet is someone who is astonished by everything."
   -- Anonymous

2. "Reality only reveals itself when it is i ...

So many looked to you for inspiration,

Unlikely hero for the wheelchair nation.

Proudly you fought and proudly you believed,

Everyone loved you Christopher Reeve.

Readily it seemed you accepted your fate,

Man you are ...

Isn't that what they say?
But what does that mean?
There's no definition that may
answer that question...

For everyone everywhere
Because it's all about what you
feel in your heart and share
with the important people in your li ...

I wish we had met 20 years ago...\rA different place, a different time\rwhen I actually had a chance \rfor you to be mine...

Although we cannot change\rwhat brought us together today,\rI don't know why it is so hard\rfor me to think about wa ...

You make me smile\rlike I've seldom done before\rYou give me a reason\rto want more and more...

Of you - of us\rany time - any where\rIt doesn't matter\ras long as you're there...

In your heart and in your soul\ras much as in mine\rWe ...

Time goes by to quickly
\rto hold your feelings inside
\rEspecially when their so strong
\reven if they don't abide...

By all the accepted rules
\rmost people live by
\rbecause this one time in your life
\rYou should not wo ...

My life has changed
in so so many ways
It seems to always be
in a state of disarray...

Without you here
by my side
to hold my hand
and be my guide...

I feel like I'm lost...
wandering through each day

She probably can't remember
and I know I can never forget...
the first time I saw her like that
I was only nine years-old
not naive by any stretch
having seen my share of tragedy-
my parent's bitter battles in my first five yea ...