
KN Magazine: Poetry
Timeless Butterfly
In Timeless Butterfly, Gary Ramsey reflects on aging, memory, and enduring beauty through the quiet admiration of a woman transformed by time. With lyrical grace, the poem celebrates resilience, wisdom, and the unseen radiance that persists beneath life’s surface.
Paper Birds
In Paper Birds, Claudia Wysocky delivers a powerful meditation on freedom, fragility, and the pursuit of dreams. Soaring with rich imagery and emotional depth, the poem explores what it means to chase transcendence in a world bound by gravity, time, and impermanence.
TURNIPS IN SOUTHERN TENNESSEE STILL
In Turnips in Southern Tennessee Still, poet Michael Lee Johnson weaves imagery of moonshine, memory, and spiritual doubt into a haunting meditation on the Southern landscape. With echoes of violence, history, and surreal reflection, this poem explores the blurry lines between faith, myth, and rural truth.
TRAUMA: SEE MEDICAL FOOTNOTE
A ruptured relationship leaves behind more than emotional bruises in TRAUMA: SEE MEDICAL FOOTNOTE. Cary B. Ziter’s visceral poem fuses medical metaphor and emotional wreckage in a raw, surreal meditation on heartbreak, memory, and the lingering heat of a love turned catastrophic.
THE MURDERER’S FATE
As twilight settles over a forest gallows, the hanged body of a murderer becomes both spectacle and symbol. The Murderer’s Fate is a haunting, lyrical meditation on justice, consequence, and the eerie calm after violence.
Unfinished Exit
Claudia Wysocky’s poem Unfinished Exit explores themes of loss, absence, and the search for closure through vivid, haunting imagery. With emotional honesty, the poem reflects on the missing, the unfinished stories, and the hope that words offer for healing and understanding.
Ghosts of the Past
A haunting and lyrical meditation on memory, grief, and emotional entrapment, Ghosts of the Past explores the internal battle of burying pain while being buried by it. With stark imagery and symbolic resonance, this poem digs deep into the soil of loss.

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