Author: Lion and Lilac
Four Poems| Katrenia Busch
The Oracle of Birds For air is to peace Earth is to war This here I now release Whether close or from afar Division found at my feet Different at the ground Congealed at my head, the clouds throne, their seat Where the air itself is found For war is awakened in […]
Four Poems | Michael Brockley
Best of Cream Linda borrowed my Best of Cream album, the one with an eggplant and a pumpkin on the cover, the same day she told me I kissed like a dish cloth. The next day she rode shotgun with a grad student who careened his corona-red Firebird through stoplights while blasting Earth, Wind, and […]
Four Poems | Linda Crate
as i am i didn’t know what to say when you told me i better not to be a lesbian, felt as if you had stumbled into a secret of mine i wasn’t ready to share; except i’m not a lesbian but i am also not straight— i buried that part of myself for […]
Four Poems | Lydia Tai
Aspirations of the Ages One day, I’ll turn six years old. I’ll have grown so big that I can climb a mountain. I won’t fall off my bike, or be afraid of monsters under my bed. One day, I’ll turn ten, and at school I’ll be the first to write cursive fluently. One day, I’ll […]
Two Poems|Oloyede Michael Taiwo
A box of epiphanies A bird sprinkles poops of luck on your head, you winked and blurted out a cough tripping on your canvas over a cylinder of ire the bird chirped a spool of cackles the same way little Joe sprinkled some pee on your clothes in his bassinet with a […]
Park Life & Addressing | Jude Brigley | Flash Fiction
Park Life Today, I was the only person walking in the Municipal Park at the top of the hill, built on what my mother called a slag heap left over from the Iron Industry. It felt as if the place was my private property. The emptiness may have been because the rain was driving […]
Four Poems|Shawn Pfunder
A Short Love Poem about Sheets We use sheets to learn how to love or how to tie knots and escape out of windows. Or both. Billy Corgan is an Asshole Everybody knows that Billy Corgan is an asshole. Only assholes name their band something like Smashing Pumpkins. Only assholes smash pumpkins. But […]
Writing evil or writing Myths —A review of Miss J Diaries
Miss J Diaries reads like a maniac scrawling in a diary and that, I believe is the intention of the Author. Dare Zaenab holds nothing back as she opens this wine bottle of short stories. For a debutant short story writer, there are shaky grounds, yes but overall, she came out of her shell with […]
Warring the war of life; a review of Adeola Juwon’s Ellipsis
Title: Ellipsis Author: Adeola Juwon Gbalajobi Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle Year of Publication: 2021 Number of pages: 52 Category: Poetry Reviewer: Babatunde Adeleke Robin Oliveira, the American Author was the one who quipped that “Love and War, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One has to hurry before the fires flared out”. […]
Ibrahim Olawale’s Debut – Prisoner of Love resonates for its familiarity
Literature has a way of giving life to our shared human experiences. Love poetry seems to be the most popular poetry since the advent of poetry writing. That’s not unexpected. As humans, we fall in and out of love, experience heartbreak, loss, and false love. The poem that resonated with me most is “Immigrant’s […]