Sunny Shadows Poetry Collection [May 2026]

This poetry collection holds the poems submitted for the 3rd Poetic Philosophy Gathering.

Event Details

2026 3rd POETIC PHILOSOPHY GATHERING

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Time: 18:00–19:00 Greece time
Location: Online (Google Meet)

Link: Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vhp-ccub-gqy

Facebook link: https://fb.me/e/d04zM9U6J

Submission methods

Submit your poems with comment here, or via the Poetic Philosophy Contact Us page! You can also send an email to harmonia-philosophica@hotmail.com.

Submissions

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Branches shift the night.
A hug of leaves seas the day.
Someone, alone, between doors
opens the time.
His time clocks between
his footsteps. Steps
in the space between. Along he walks.
Between earths he rides.
Arisen are the arrows.
Death upon the sorrow.
Death upon the cry. What is it left?
Time in one only point.

~ Athina Styliani Michou

Midway

The object
on the stairs
had been there forever
no one moved it
it had become
part of the
furniture
part of the stairs

I picked it up
a dust ring
had gathered around
where it sat
and the carpeted stairs
looked lighter
where the object
had been

it was warm
from sunlight
holding onto heat
like old things do
silent and steady
as we walked by

we never spoke of it
this object
though we stepped past it
daily
it had presence
an invisible presence
midway on the stairs

I turned it
in my hand
something once useful
now orphaned
by context
and yet still
claiming space

it smelled faintly
of time
and old conversations

I didn’t know
what to do
now that it was gone
from its spot
I held its weight

and for a moment
the stairs felt
too open
too empty
too bare

I placed it back
exactly
where it had been
let the dust ring
resume
like nothing had changed

~ Tim Boardman