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.
21st ave
I became lifeless on this search to obtain anything that would water some life back into my veins. I marched out onto the balcony howling your name over and over, silencing the echoes that were supposed to shout back through all the noise and commotion of this concrete city- screaming until it sliced like piercing glass, with jagged edges, through the conversations happening below me, cutting in just so I could feel connected to someone.
By tatiana vitas2 months ago in Poets
What Is Missing?
Negative Space challenge: The Prompt - Write a poem shaped by what's missing. Let an absence, omission, or empty space become as important as what you put on the page. Negative space is what surrounds the subject. In a poem, it can be silence, omission, white space, or the thing the speaker refuses to name. Write a poem shaped by what's missing. Maybe it's a person who never appears, a word you keep avoiding, a gap in a memory, or something the reader can feel without ever being told directly. Use form, line breaks, repetition, restraint, or even the space on the page itself to make that absence felt. Whatever approach you choose, the emptiness should do real work in the poem.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Poets
The Impermanent Awakening
Adversity makes you stronger, and desperate situations make you stronger still. Only through utter annihilation can you truly gain the presence to overlook the world, radiating a divine light that illuminates the entire universe.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing2 months ago in Poets
