The Abstract Art Gallery
A writing gallery created by writers from around the world. From poetry to song lyrics, from essays to entire novels and short stories.
…third grade, and for our English homework, Ms. Rivero instructed us to copy verbatim onto a piece of paper, via longhand, a poem from our textbook. Then, we would illustrate our visual interpretation of it on the white space surrounding the text. The following morning…
By Karlo Sevilla
Read More…was humming. A moving song. Never heard her sing. I lay on my bed listening, wondering what trouble kept her awake this late night, singing to…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read More…made the rush-hour commute home from work on Monday evening, with one thing on his mind. He wasn’t stressing about what was shaping up to be another busy week at the…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreMy name is Bryon…
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…birthday you know you will have a death day, but you try to make the best of every day sometimes we stumble and fall sometimes we climb and succeed, remember it’s just…
By Bryon Eldridge0
Read More…all women like giving oral;
and men just ask them if they spit or swallow?
Some men prefer to give a woman…
By Ngoc Nguyen
Read MoreI still keep this incredible…
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…back in the past,
my mom is looking at her old photograph:
she sits on the blossoming…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read More…horizon to the beach
Does the hand of heaven reach
In the wilder winter weather
Of the ocean in the…
By Charles Valle
Read MoreAn ekphrastic poem on…
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…marriage and need
they accepted the seed
which they bore…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreThe modern world is convinced…
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…of one father and two mothers. The ages-long struggle between them began at their birth and has never ceased. Hagar was the mother of the first born, Ishmael. Sarah was the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…out at the stars displayed on the screen. The journey to the moon would take three days. In just over a day and a half they would reach their destination. The take-off had gone just as planned. Ray and the three astronauts had been training for months for…
By Chris Platt
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