Check out the March issue of Open Heart Forgery, a free local publication in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’ve had several poems published in this pamphlet of a magazine. It’s actually not hard; if there’s room and one’s poem is reasonably okay, it’ll be published. (At least, that’s my understanding.) Poems must be a maximum of 28 lines long and a max of 43 letters wide. Only one submission per author per month and a max of four poems per year. One must be a resident of HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality).
Here is my poem, “It Only Takes One”:
The night is hollow and cold,
and I’m alone in blackness;
I’ve never liked the dark,
don’t like what I can’t see.
Stars are funny creatures,
resting and hiding by day;
They emerge at night to party,
when their florid faces glow.
They glare at us, those stars,
spying upon us in the quiet;
And we stare back at them,
seeking fruitless fantasies.
I’ve never liked the dark,
Don’t like what I can’t see;
I beg I beg upon one star,
Please let my wish come true.
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