Flowers & Vortexes, Creative Magazine

We must all find our doorway, befriending the darkness in our own hearts through poetry, music, art,  and song. ~the editor © 2020 Promise of Light Publications

  Flowers & Vortexes Creative Magazine blessed is he who inspires, shares life amidst flowers, vortexes ISSN: 1932-8753  Covers I-VI

Welcome to  Flowers & Vortexes Online A Vortex of Creativity © 2020 Mikey Webb © 2020 David Brooks On Grief    August slips cool into a September porch swing. Come sit with me and have coffee at 3am. We'll speak without shame, for we've been intimate for years - since you found your place between my husband's hips and mine. We are one another's quiet addiction, each the other's lingering suicide. I recognize pain, my reflection, in your eyes, and yet I draw you in. You are my Marlboro man, here to save me, but there is too much smoke - summer stinking and thick with kudzu vows. Autumn rings on some distant curve, and with this dreaded friend, I pray. Together we mourn midnights into dawn on the whispered tune of our blessings: Hurry, on the west wind to the seas, move them with the tarnished arc of the harvest moon. © 2006 Erin Monahan  *This poem was previously published in Flowers & Vortexes, Issue I (2006).                       

Flowers & Vortexes, Creative Magazine is making its return in the Fall of 2021. We will be needing submissions of your best work. Quality of writing is what will make it in this publication. If you're a well-established writer and think I'll publish your weaker pieces, think again. If you have questions (regarding the magazine), direct them to: vortexeditor@yahoo.com. Check back periodically for additional information.

  Send us only your best work. Send your poetry as a word attachment with “F&V Submission” in the subject line. Use one-inch margins left, right, and bottom of all pages. Since the writer’s contact information should be in the upper left-hand corner of the first page of submissions, it looks good to use a 1/2 margin at the top of that page. Use 12 point-Times New Roman font. Submit 3-5 poems: vortexeditor@yahoo.com.  Include a cover letter as well. Deadline for next issue: April 4, 2022. Thank you, Editor, James Eric Watkins About the editor: Although James has merely earned two associate’s degrees, one in General Education and the other in Social and Behavioral Science, his experiences far exceed that of his formal, on-paper, educational level. James Eric Watkins was first accepted for publication by Poetry Motel in late 2002. He has dramatically performed his poetry (as well as given poetic speeches) at Ivy Tech Community College, Madison Campus in 2004, the Mad