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The RagMag Poetry Archive - A Collection of Poems Featured by RagMag.org in Past Issues. Poets Have Been Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Alic, Trent                                   Loveless, Valerie   

Crimi, Bill                                   Molnar, Catherine    

Kontomichalos, Dawn Marie   

Lambert, Leonora                                             

 

Many of These Poets Can be Found In The Lonely Road Poet...An Anthology of Poems Published by RagMag

 

Untitled by Trent Alic

 

there’s too many things going on

there’s too much around me

there’s too many distractions

there’s too much surrounding me

you can’t win fighting against your probems

it’s like battling with liquid swords

you can’t be hurt or defeat

it’s a petty argument with mere words.

Don’t let your fears prevent you from experience

and don’t let them get the best of you

express yourself and your feelings

but don’t let them be the death of you

no excitement, no drama

just regular life

no tears of joy or pain

nothing is wrong or right

our destiny with love, is not judged

the truth of our lives, is not doubted

the beauty of our souls shine through us

our freedom is our one way ticket out.

 

 

Decrowning of Love by Trent Alic

 

 like the tea cup

that fell from your hands

when I told you of the barrier

in what you thought’d end up fair

I’ve laid on the floor

a mess of times in strain

and shards of my strength

under tables and chairs

in a much later-heard silence

a calm de-crowning of love

went by me and away

closer to a flight of of pleasure

but there will be none

as it flutters past the filter

dusty and thick

stuck between “how?” and never.

 

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Watching you by Bill Crimi

 

Watching you as your spirit yearns for flight

into every source, everywhere

back to a life once known

long forgotten, cept for a fleeting glimpse.

As I walk through your eyes,

a wispering image beckons;

smiling in the words..."its alright..."

Looks like an Angel

appearing in once empty space;

you linger

half-way between here and there.

Watching you....

brings me into the light of yesterday

we were young...new

far from sight of these worn out days of ours;

smooth little bodies

splashed in a bath of bubbles and fun

so young;

the tears we shared through years

feeling one anothers dream go broken.

Little now...is spoken,

as I watch you

and love you

as your eyes…love me.

                                                                                        *Dedicated to My Sister Lizbeth

 

 

Night Tricks by Bill Crimi

 

I must have watched her too long

she’s burned into me

like a ghost

Blink…blink

she’s still there, remaining in mock.

The night plays such tricks on fools like me

half blinded by tears

a dim light chosen.

My window has her in the garden

flowing soft in a yellow chiffon

curly locks, sway in a gentle breeze

golden honey brown.

The moon

turns to choking dust.

I must have…

must have watched her too long

she’s burned into me.

 

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Beautiful Soul by Dawn Kontomichalas

 

Even as a small child I have been in awe of

her graceful beauty;

a ballerina dancing her way through life.

An artist of life, she saw beauty in everything.

She embraced life...all of it...the good and the bad.

Often misunderstood by others but,

those who really knew her

cherished her uniqueness.

She was one of a kind...strong, spirited...unbreakable

yet, elegant and full of love...with a heart of gold.

She gave everything and asked nothing in return.

She had an acceptance of people for who they were.

An acceptance of life for what it was.

A true beauty inside and out; stunning beauty.

An Angel that God allowed us to have for a short time

to teach and show us proof of his existance.

For who else could have created such a beautiful creature?

Anyone who had the chance to have her in their life

was truly blessed.

I can only hope that in my life,

I can be half the woman she was.

I lost not only an aunt but, a mother and a soul mate,

because she was all these things to me throughout my life.

She was the most beautiful soul.

 

                                               "WHO KNEW?"...I Knew...

 

 

Forgiveness by Leonora Lambert

 

Changin’

And…makin’ up came

Close to sin…

Now, that we’re apart

We’re next to kin

Merciful and kind

Why did you ever cross that line?

Dreamin’ drifters know

“Any healin’ heart

Takes time…”

 

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The Mortal Box by Catherine Molnar (age 15)

we all own a mortal box

yet, I cannot open yours

what are you hiding, kid

behind the thick closed door?

if I were to swing it open

what would I find?

a caterpillar scarf that is hiding in your eyes

a scarf as red as the blood that ran round

and round my finger?

remember when I touched your cheek

and left behind a mark

and you wiped it off as if it were a bug?

would I find a mark there

in your mortal box

and would it resemble my finger tip?

the one I pressed like a flower.

would I find my carving stones

I left you when I died

are they in there still?

 

Live Life by Valerie Loveless

 

She dances in the dream

Like a ballerina with no name

She glides across the room with ease

As lightly as a leaf that falls from a tree.

Like a bird who takes flight

Her message comes across clear

Through her dance, watch close you’ll hear,

Her words of wisdom, her words of might, live your life.

 

*Dedicated to Liz…you have been more to me than words could ever show.

 

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