First Draft

No Hands On Deck
The changes arrived as promised, systems demanding verification: a series of hoops, diameters diminishing. I jumped through them all,
By Harper Lewis 3 months ago in Poets
Spin for Another Year
Tim, I hope you like it...! With the new format, I had to put the link at the bottom. Not sure I like this... K.D We have all been taken for a very long ride.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Poets
One Work: Three Musicians
As we all tune up, I feel the rhythm, tempo... Can you hear it now? * Okay, not my best, but I like Raymond's Challenge, and I encourage you to enter and see what you can come up with. And also, this is my 900th piece on Vocal. Seems to call for a celebration?
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Poets
If I Could Disappear. Content Warning.
If I could for just one hour go cold, and make you all believe that I was dead, would you stop and take a minute to say all the things I'd needed to hear instead?
By Lizzy Rose3 months ago in Poets
Daphne Defiant
stupid Cupid and your poison arrows I see your vanity, cocking your bow at Apollo, knocking that gold-tipped arrow and taking aim.
By Harper Lewis 3 months ago in Poets
Daphne and Apollo
If I had known what would happen I wouldn’t have let you catch me. I was enjoying the chase, my hair rippling in the wind I created,
By Harper Lewis 3 months ago in Poets
Words are hard
Push through the mush, the grey matter of the brain, down to the root, to the spark barely there— words forming into thought
By Chel Writes3 months ago in Poets
Leopard Prince
They hated all that weren’t like them Other creeds Other languages Other races But they screamed all the same When the leopard came for their faces
By Atomic Historian3 months ago in Poets
The Necromancer's Downfall The Bone Army ~ Part Six
the tainted blood swirled wildly under the doomed deadman’s moon like a tornado tail spinning that late evening in June lightning flashed like a spotlight
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsden3 months ago in Poets
Same
A man eats, A woman eats, A dog eats, A cat eats, A rat eats, We are all the same.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 months ago in Poets
No, Don’t turn around now
You hear it now, don’t you? That scraping sound beneath the anthem,  that crack beneath the stars and stripes,  the hiss of something hungry  slipping through the seams of a nation that once swore never again.
By Cadma4 months ago in Poets
The Necromancer's Downfall The Bone Army ~ Part Two
** A romancer at heart and a scoundrel in nature This black magic art became just another wager Of sin and of death he held no real allegiance
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsden4 months ago in Poets