Inklings Literary Magazine is now open for submissions for the 2022-2023 edition! Hello All! We are very excited to be accepting submissions from now until our new extended deadline, March 27th! Please remember to review our submission guidelines, as compliance with those will affect the acceptance of your work. To submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, [...]
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About the Author Sophia Hunter (she/they) writes her poetry in between working at the library, attending her classes, and writing for the university newspaper. She hails from Phoenix and devotes her time to the love of words.
Laundry: A Sijo
Peel back her cheeks, that film, inside out to keep the color from fading. Clip her fingernails to the line, arms proffered from post to post. In this way, even within gale, she is submitted to Apollo About the Author Sarah is fond of tea, books, and plants. She is a freshman at Eastern University [...]
Liminal
The smudged sky is a slick acrylic handswipe Its color not quite purple, not quite gray, not quite blue It’s the lone dazed March in clothes that are not quite warm enough. I almost shiver. By now, the path begins to light up from glistening lampposts, Leaning in. Do you have a secret for me? [...]
Villanelle
A hefty sum was paid for such small things A vendor’s credit cracks when his lot’s sold It was then I learned that this love has strings In bargain, as ants, with a tyrant king He offers kind chains for my slavish soul A hefty sum was paid for such small things When radiant kisses [...]
Kallipolis I
I was born in the city ornamented by stories Every perfect, pious man stitched into a tapestry folded over my childhood bed I lapped up stories of good men, carved them into my belt,sharpened them into my sword When anger and fear pulled my spine,I learned what my city never taught: a hero is not [...]
Crush: Revised
What would they say if they knew I stare at you across the pew You beam so bright in Sunday Best You look so lovely in that suit Your southern accent sweet and strong Your curly hair so red and short We passed the noisy evening hours With earthly talk of homework flowers Pistal, stamen, [...]
The Rescuer
All this noise Cannot keep poise Of who I am and me Dancing through The pain, the travesty Only back to feeling lonely Where was I taught To hide such parts of me Where was I fought In this ever changing pain and me For if I do not figure this out There will be [...]
Clarity
It’s scary there I would not share The battle between me and you But God tells me it’s okay Not here to stay But growing, showing more of you It is not true What lives in you If only you knew If only you grew Help along the way For what you would say Makes [...]
Time
Time is a form of measurementA scale of days and nightsThat passes with the seasonsReference dates for reasons—Treatises and treasonsPassing, neverlasting, into everlastingCasting chronological crowns to kings thatMark moments of strife that redefine strivingFor gold and growing older…Aging and raging, time dies and revivesCuts ties and binds, in a ring that lastsForever for the promise [...]
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