The world expects a smile, a pearly grin so bright, A mask to hide the shadows, to push the darkness from sight. But today, the smile feels hollow, a foreign, painted guise,
By Moharif Yulianto2 years ago in Poets
The air hangs heavy, thick with your absence, A void where laughter danced, a vacant presence. The sun still rises, paints the day with gold,
They call me crocodile, a creature of the deep, Where sunlight filters, secrets fishes keep. In murky depths I stalk, a silent, fearsome form,
Asphalt veins, a concrete heart, The city's pulse, where paths all start. Here, at the intersection's hold, A thousand stories yet untold.
Angel of the Deep Hidden in plain sight Shifting sands and waves Draw in the fools and the brave in equal measure A creature of beauty and grace
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Poets
To give life to the long dead and gone In woven words of truth and honour the poet’s concern, their endeavour to lament the passing of the former
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
We called it Dinosaur Town --a cookie cutter, quintessential little borough where anthropomorphized predator and prey lived in harmony.
By Alexandria Stanwyck2 years ago in Poets
It was the day before going away when I got the news that my dear best friend had passed on. Her cancer, spreading, her pain troubling, her life no more.
By Denise Larkin2 years ago in Poets
The world dims down, a silent, blurry scene, Just you and I, a whispered, sweet routine. Five minutes stolen, from a day so long,
The clock ticks slow, a metronome of dread, Three hours etched, a lifetime in my head. The world outside, a symphony unheard,
we went and arrived by ancient subway the car loudly rattling through all its steel bones –our much softer ones did the same–
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Its pearly whites Feed the Pearly Gates In hogbelly bites When it masticates * Rudimentary arms Will flap impotent Even its thunder-thighs' charms
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
