When someone offers you half a giraffe, which half do you choose? Maybe a fifth of a fox or a third of an armadillo would better fit
By Harper Lewis 6 months ago in Poets
Forget Me Nots Are Tinged With Tears Tiny blue flowers grew wild by the gate Blooming each summer beside where we’d wait You used to gather them gently for me
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 6 months ago in Poets
Life Was Different Then Life was different then beneath smoky skies Neighbours still spoke while looking in eyes Children stayed playing till streetlights came on
My California slips beneath the waves, full of status mongers and money grubbers. Wave after wave crashes on its fragile coast,
By Dean Traylor6 months ago in Poets
Let’s never go to Edisto, the island, not the river. Augusta seeps into the coastline vacation becomes performative, a contest of houses, boats, and cookouts,
I should diet I’m kinda fat and I don’t want to be that I should diet But it is cold and lonely under this roof And there are ghostly sounds
By Sam Spinelli6 months ago in Poets
The Hour Nobody Could Remember At six o’clock the town fell strangely still, The traffic lights remained a steady red, Every clock stopped moving without cause,
A moment of pause quiet reflection, the act of stopping. - Looking up from the hustle, and bustle smelling the roses.
By Alexander Stoddart6 months ago in Poets
Tomorrow seems so far away, a distant blip on the horizon like a razor blade I need a machete to chop through today with this eternal morning
The One Thing That Matters Is Love Money grows dusty and beauty grows old Fame disappears quicker than people are told Houses stand empty when hearts have turned cold
My grandson turned 27 last month His first year of boxing and I had a hunch It will not be his last year. I had a bit of fear
By Denise E Lindquist6 months ago in Poets
I taught Kung Fu Cinema at a university, these are some notes: enjoy A creativity exists in developing Chinese martial arts. Many are based on animals, some real (Tiger) and some mythical (Dragon).
By SAMURAI SAM: Wild Wayne6 months ago in Poets