Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 05/08/24

Nature’s Symphony

It’s 3:33 am,
All I hear is whistling tree frogs
And the soothing hum
Of my oscillating fan.
I’m left wondering about the universe,
How it began,
Our use of language
And the origins of man.
My overactive mind grabs me,
Yanking me out of bed
I pace to the fridge,
I pour a glass of water
And the hobs clock
Paints it red.
I peer outside my window,
The moon shining bright,
The white orb wears a halo
And lights up the night.
I hear the leaves brush against the trees,
Orchestrating nature’s symphony.
Then I wonder…
Where does the wind start
And where does it end?
The truth lies in the stars
But we won’t know
Until the stars fall.

©2024 Rhys Campbell All rights reserved.

Brother Rhys

Rhys Campbell was born Bermudian and grew up in Cardiff, Wales – which moulded him into the person he is today. Self-taught, he started writing for himself at the tender age of 14.

Rhys often conveys his poetry within the verbalised art form that is spoken word; you can find his work on all major streaming platforms, usually complemented with ambient instrumentals to further ensure the impact of the narratives illustrated. In his free time he writes for a variety of bands and artists throughout an array of genres.

@rhysc.campbell

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 01/08/24

Shoeboxes on the Moon

A sentiment is consuming my existence
I need another shoebox
I will claim this from the moon with insistence

In times of questioning I go to the moon
I’m there alone
and there in a blink are boxes

I hear the one calling the loudest
I move closer
to catch in a snatch lost words

Red…
shoebox on the moon
hide my anger said

Green…
shoebox on the moon
hide my jealousy seen

Blue…
shoebox on the moon
hide my thoughts taboo

For sentiment full of death
I demand a black box
I want that shoebox before I take another breath

Television man is hazy
Heart bleeds remorse
This wrong horse

©2024 L. Sydney Abel All rights reserved.

Brother Abel

L. Sydney Abel was born in Kingston upon Hull, England. He’s an author of psychological fiction with his novel 12:07 The Sleeping being based on personal experience of sleep paralysis. He’s written and illustrated several children’s books and a Y/A novel.

Poetry is his personal escape in his book Tongue is a Fire and the upcoming One ASYLUM.

Social Media:

https://theslider58.wixsite.com/lsydneyabel

https://www.lsydneyabelbooks.com/

https://theslider58.wixsite.com/lsydneyabelpoet

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 11/24/23

OVER AND LIGHT

I saw a winking moon
hide behind
kingly pines

sending silver
liquid beams
through thick boughs

as a full-faced moon
lighted my path
to home.

MOON SPACE

an autumn moon
crawls sideways
overhead
through pines
smiling like chrome
without sound
drawing my eyes
as if pulled
by strong tides
I gaze
not for just
a moment
but I search
as I have
countless times
its cold distant face
and will again
when pleasantly
captured by
its presence

©2023 Dr. Roger G. Singer All rights reserved.

Brother Singer

Dr. Singer has had over 1,200 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a Pushcart Award Nominee. Some of the magazines that have accepted his poems for publication are: Westward Quarterly, Jerry Jazz, SP Quill, Avocet, Underground Voices, Outlaw Poetry, Literary Fever, Dance of my Hands, Language & Culture, The Stray Branch, Tipton Poetry Indigo Rising, Down in the Dirt, Fullosia Press, Orbis, Penwood Review, Subtle Tea, Ambassador Poetry Award, Massachusetts State Poetry Society. Louisiana State Poetry Society Award. Readers Award Orbis Magazine 2019. Arizona State Poetry Award 2020. Mad Swirl Anthology 2018, 2019.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 10/11/23

Thou to be?

Obstructing, denouncing, dying, impoverished or evil?
Hiding oneself and suffering.

The Moon?
Brilliant and illuminating …
raise one’s clear and unequivocal voice.

Vacuous, fraudulent or devoid of sense?
A coffin.

The optimal potential in each emerging moment?
Only light …
it really is extraordinary, sublime and mindful.

Secrecy, mystery and being obstruse?
A shadow –
an echo for the purpose of
reaching and extending evil …
places turbulent, drastic and irritating.

Growing, beginning, preparing or causing
genuine emotion, love and reason?
Affecting, responsive, perceptive and grateful –
institutions to love deeply and rely upon …
bewitching, infatuating and charming.

We really compete to invite or to ask thou
to become immersed in existence and living.

The Moon?
Real.

The universe?
Glory and honour –
moderate, apt, successful and heartfelt –
approaching existence and living.

The Moon?
Certainly various aspects braiding, knitting or weaving thou.

The target?
The wizardry known as “worthy creativity.”

©2023 Douglas Colston All rights reserved.

Brother Colston

Douglas Colston has played in Ska bands, picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, experienced chronic mental and physical illnesses consequential to workplace harassment, married his love, transitioned into Counselling as a vocation, fathered two great children, and had his inheritance embezzled. Now, among other things, he is pursuing a PhD.

http://theancientoracle.com/
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.colston/

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 08/18/23

Light Came Darkly

your way of language
dry against the bone
a mad scientist god
moving in another direction
driving to a plane beyond
the color
the blue moon
my love
while light came darkly
ripping heart and stone
and a monument crumbling
soft places
and the underground
I am wanting I am wanting
and the never promise
I hear a voice that lasts five centuries
and what I could not deliver
a better world

©2023 Margot Block All rights reserved.

Sister Block

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, Voices, the Collective Consciousness, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Bakwa Magazine, Cholla Needles, Blank Spaces, Black Scat Review and in the online journals BlazeVox, Kaliedoscope Online, the Bombay Review, Oddball Magazine, Brief Wilderness, the Blotter Literary Magazine, Kritikos:A-Postmodern-Journal-of-Cultural-Sound-Text-&-Image, Scissors and Spackle:A-Journal-of-the-Written-Word, the Big Windows Review, the American Diversity Report & the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with Canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a poetry contest with the Writers Collective and an honorable mention in a poetry contest with the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.