fact or fiction

Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about what makes a good poem and the poetry rules that were made to be broken.

Grandma Has Won Free Transport To Aldi
Grandma Has Won Free Transport To Aldi Grandma won a competition, she nearly dropped her tea, “Free transport down to Aldi!” “Well, that’ll do for me.”
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
Lab Grown Flower
Lab Grown Flower They grew me under glass, where daylight never came, fed me drops of colour, then whispered me a name.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
The Third Eye
The Third Eye I grew an eye where silence lives, right in the middle of all I hide. It does not blink at pretty lies, it opens wide when truth walks by.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
MEET BIRDY BIRD
MEET BIRDY BIRD Birdy Bird was born quite odd, he never learnt to fly, he sat beneath a watching tree and argued with the sky.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
DREAMER DREAM
DREAMER DREAM Dreamer dream beneath the night, let your worries lose their fight, close your eyes and drift away, leave the darkness where it lay.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
The Second Chair
The Second Chair At the table a chair pulled out. Not pushed in. I set two plates. One fork. One knife. The knife on the left. It should be on the right.
By Jin2 months ago in Poets
TRUTH
TRUTH Truth stared straight into my eyes, it never blinked or turned away, I tried to hide behind myself, but truth had something else to say.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
The Trap of Undefined Goodness
My dear, please wake up: Don't entrust your life to an undefinable "goodness." My dear, wake up. Don't be held hostage by those seemingly noble but flimsy words—especially that one, revered by countless people as a belief: Good deeds bring good rewards.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing2 months ago in Poets
THE BRIDE HE LEFT BEHIND
THE BRIDE HE LEFT BEHIND She waited dressed in ivory, With flowers in her hand, She thought she heard his footsteps, But silence filled the land.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
The Intersection of 5th and 8th
Enchanted evening on campus after the hellscape morning drive to my other campus, behind an 18 strolling down the third lane, backing up
By Harper Lewis 2 months ago in Poets
BROKEN BY LOVE
BROKEN BY LOVE You came into my darkness And promised me the sun, You said my lonely searching Was finally over and done.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
THIS WORLD
THIS WORLD This world wakes up each morning And paints a smiling face, But underneath the colours There hides a darker place.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets