Quote for Today: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
But isn’t this a dance? Isn’t all of this a dance? Isn’t that what we do with words? Isn’t that what we do when we talk, when we spar, …
Featured Artist: Mária Mitríková
Synkroniciti is thrilled to feature “Transits,” a thought-provoking artwork from Slovak artist Mária Mitríková. Comprised of fifty sheets of A4 paper covered with a combination of hand-written letters and gold …
Quote for Today: Steven R. Boyett
You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels …
Quote for Today: Dan Beachy-Quick
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another’s ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word …
40 days of poetry: Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen
Day 19: Ficus Carica Sonnet by Hoa Nguyen. This poem is about death and how our thoughts and words can choke us. Is it better to speak or be silent?
Quote for Today: Ezinne Orjiako
Brother, why do we fight like we are not flesh of flesh? Blood of blood. Bone of bone. Like if the time came I would not go to war for …
Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …
Quote for Today: Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem …
Quote for Today: Maria Lehtman
If only our words would light up the hearts of others – like the sun awakening spring trees and flowers. We might not worry about the evening shadows any longer. …
Quote for Today: Machado de Assis
Lovers’ language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn’t offend against the rules of …