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Let It Flow
a creeping feeling engulfed my body muscles heavy but elastic mysterious beat ramping up slowly evocative and animastic I pump myself out of the deep pocket
By K.B. Silver about 12 hours ago in Poets
No-one learns to sail without first lifting the anchor
I know, you want to turn away, For me to teach you how To make walls so thick that pain accumulates Like leaves, decomposing in the external shadow.
By Hannah Mooreabout 13 hours ago in Poets
Comely... Content Warning.
No. It shamed me to build you up. I am not a victim. Since when? ‘Nitz’…. Did your curl become a bush, of a thistle? Since when did you need definition?
By Kusauka Chimbeabout 13 hours ago in Poets
Remember
When The Sun Won’t Shine, And You Can’t Find Your Smile… When The Hurt Won’t Subside, And There Is No Where To Hide… When Your Soul Is Searching For Colors,
By HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)about 13 hours ago in Poets
And Then I Wrote It Down...
Not Tapping Out Life's a wonderous thing sometimes filled with pain We all have those moments that make us feel insane Locked in a closet with nowhere to scream
By Nicole Higginbotham-Hogueabout 13 hours ago in Poets
Every Morning At 7:22, or 21 - I Have Used My "Head", And Now I Am A Millionaire - I Own A House, I Own A Car - I Have 10 Children, A Husband, A Wife - I Have A Life , Nothing Can Stop Me, I Am Powerful, I Am Unstoppable!
Every man loves a woman who gives him a hard time, the worst thing the best thing! The person who plays hard to get as if the person was a child waiting to feel a sense of wonder! I wished I knew what it felt like to have all the men wanting me! All the men saying you are the reason, I have woken up in the morning!? The only reason I live, The reason I will wake up, as if that made sense! All the men that said if I, only for a minute cared enough about myself I would not have a had a breakdown! A breakdown in society, a breakdown in the way every person assumes they are enough! Just a person who had no other choice but to have 40 breakdowns !
By 365poetryabout 14 hours ago in Poets
Sad Eyes (Robert John "song")
I've been trying to understand a few things! Honestly, I've been trying to understand a few things! I want to understand a few things! I - don't know where I will be, tomorrow - but I would like to understand a few things! I don't want money, I just want to understand a few things!
By 365poetryabout 14 hours ago in Poets
Bartender
On the heels of grief, pain bears down hard. On the heels of death, pain awakens the quiet place between the end of our own life and now. Feeling anything is like seeing a film and in black and white, slow motion, all sound turned off. Just watching. Gritting teeth, awkward smiles and bloody red eyes move around, scanning the others who are feeling something I don't want to feel, but I do. Escapism is all I have ever known. ~
By ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)about 14 hours ago in Poets
Waves
I am the ocean, waves still When an old friend stays for too long They never take the hint The darkness of blood and flesh
By Honor Willow Brownabout 14 hours ago in Poets
Not Every Dream Was Meant to Survive
Not a single dream ever reached its full horizon. And yet— I did not lose my mind after that. The accidents of life continue like endless recommendations,
By luna hartabout 15 hours ago in Poets
The Catastrophe of Her Embrace
Friends, tell me— what storm lives within her arms? What kind of reckoning is that embrace, that final, beautiful collapse?
By LUNA EDITHabout 15 hours ago in Poets
Nerves
Take a deep breath Let it out slowly Repeat Take a deep breath Let it out slowly Repeat Close your eyes And take another breath
By Reb Kreylingabout 16 hours ago in Poets