“The One in the Grey Shirt” (A poem for the challenge — spooky, literal, unseen) I felt it before I saw it that soft pull of air
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Poets
Hiding From You I changed the roads I walked on Changed every place I knew Still somehow every shadow Reminds me too much of you
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 6 months ago in Poets
By August, the tomatoes have already split open from too much rain. * Meanwhile, February hardens the rosemary beside the fence,
By Shannon Hilson6 months ago in Poets
On the starry canvas of every night sky, You are a radiant constellation - Lustrous steel points, Connected by strong veins of fine spun pearls,
By Maura Bernstein6 months ago in Poets
The house remembers the flood before the marriage. * Water climbs the hallway in silver silence, while a woman, still seventeen
She meets herself first at the edge of a parking lot in winter, age eleven, holding a tattered paper ticket softened by glove heat.
Okay, let’s take it out and turn it on. No, no, no, you always open everything up first. Right, then you turn it on. Are you daft?
By Julie Lacksonen6 months ago in Poets
Scrambled thoughts erode my brain Oh anxiety my old friend. You’ve come to play with me again. Im stuck where I don’t want to be
By Lane Burns6 months ago in Poets
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS APRIL 25, 2021 No! We are not the champions! ...we are the weak, the poor, the forgotten! We are flotsam left over after the bludgeoning
By Victor Mendez6 months ago in Poets
Underneath Ground Underneath ground so silent The world forgets your name No sunlight reaches downward Everything feels the same
How am I? I am okay. Which loosely translates as about as far away from okay as I want to be. I could run through all the reasons why I'm not okay.
By Paul Stewart6 months ago in Poets
Stretching arms as I take in a deep breath of fresh air How I dreamed of finally having one good night sleep I feel refreshed
By Jennifer lindquist6 months ago in Poets
