What they don’t tell you when you’re struggling Is how beautiful the struggle is How one day you’ll look back on those days As the most gold tinted of your life What they don’t tell you when things become comfortable And you don’t have to sweat and reach for every little thing Is that comfort … Continue reading »
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Trillium by Jeremy Nathan Marks
The rain is ending and with everything soaked the wind turns light wrung out fit now for flight At dawn our curtains quiver And through every bird we begin our hearing of a whirl, a roar a sprouting once more of mud flecked Skunk Cabbages Their dirt tickling crown loosens the ground and is startling … Continue reading »
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Blue Hour Press Books for Sale
Hello friends! Thank you for visiting our site and following The Blue Hour. If you haven’t bought a copy of The Blue Hour Anthology Volume One yet, here is a great way to purchase this book and our newest book written by Philip Vermaas. Both books are available for 25 dollars, they would otherwise cost … Continue reading »
3 poems by Katie Gebler
The Tenth Year Remember the birch trees on our land? You cleared the area, snapping the thin white limbs, bundling them, then a hoist to your shoulders to carry them to the road, your cold cracked fingers dry and tight fisted after. Soon you spoke fewer words, you cradled the baby in the creaky rocker … Continue reading »
Mumbai Sunset by Tejinder Pal Singh
Photo by Amina Shabbir Shabbir
3 poems by Sam Barbee
Con-Sensual In the future I will forgive my uncelebrated self for offense I am yet to do: un-touch her in those awkward ways, heal the scars that still blot past days. At dusk, I will lean into sad songs, appeasing the moments when I ignored her final whisper: glass flask bobbing on cheated sea, re-hearing … Continue reading »
3 poems by William G. Davies Jr.
Truant The streetlight turned red and when it did the rain also, as if it were blood splashing in the street forming rivulets over the ruby asphalt of thousands wounded, denied entrance to heaven. In The Distance The tall grasses in mocha and rhubarb bunch to catch a lethargic sun whose dictum that December be … Continue reading »
House of Light by Lauren Tivey
for I.M. Pei & the Suzhou Museum We are seduced by it, incited to prayer in the white cathedral, this Temple of Ra, light tumbling, floating around us. Wisterias in the atrium twist over themselves in a spotlight, all shadows washed clean, while outside, far mountains undulate in the pond, the rockscape reflecting, glittering. A … Continue reading »
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Paperback and ebook available for Better Cigarettes and Other Poems by Philip Vermaas published by Blue Hour Press
http://www.etsy.com/listing/151297244/better-cigarettes-and-other-poems-by http://www.lulu.com/shop/philip-vermaas/better-cigarettes-and-other-poems/ebook/product-21022239.html Better Cigarettes and Other Poems by Philip Vermaas is more than a poetry collection. It is a 158 page book of stories in the form of poems that are based on real life experience. Philip was born in South Africa and spent time in Scotland and England. During his travels, he encountered various … Continue reading »
