Stop waiting for acknowledgment that isn’t coming. Open Google Docs. Create a blank page. Let your hands hover. Do not rush it.
By Alicia Melnick about 9 hours ago in Poets
In the Workhouse 1888 The walls are cold, the floors are bare The air is thick with heavy care We stand in line, no words to say
By Marie381Uk about 10 hours ago in Poets
When I dream You are forever young And even though reality insists You are gone You will live forever Within my broken heart
By Len Shermanabout 10 hours ago in Poets
There are things you can want with your whole body and still never be chosen by. This is not a failure of language or posture
By Hannah Lambertabout 11 hours ago in Poets
First— remove your armor slowly. Do not rip it off. Grief startles easy. Hope does too. Unbuckle the lies you learned early:
The Curse of the Snake I walked where the river bends in quiet threat, beneath trees that never speak, yet always watch, where shadows stretch like secrets kept
By Marie381Uk about 11 hours ago in Poets
If my soul were worthless, you would pass me by— no teeth bared, no roaring, no fire in your eyes. You don’t guard empty houses,
I was born in the snow Before the cold choked me The sun called my name I rose from the icy ground Vaporized as a whisp of the life
By Maria A. Perezabout 12 hours ago in Poets
The Emperor wanders his hallways at the White House, a modern-day Nero screaming into an electric void of his own construction, a gathering place for
By David Muñozabout 12 hours ago in Poets
After Sunday lunch, I went out for a solo walk in my leafy neighborhood. It is almost spring at our place,
By Seema Patelabout 13 hours ago in Poets
The Man I Met Today He stood like a question I couldn’t ask, Hands in his coat, face half in the past. His eyes were storms that never broke,
By Marie381Uk about 13 hours ago in Poets
“Anti-depressants are for losers who are afraid to feel.” The circle glares at me as I try to pass cruelty as enlightenment.
By Tina D. Lopezabout 13 hours ago in Poets
