It was a beautiful sunny afternoon The sky was a clear blue A cool gentle breeze blowing through the trees and flowers Making each petal and leaf dance to the quiet swoosh
By Judith Jascha7 months ago in Poets
A redbud does a wrong thing beautifully. Bloom comes straight off the bark, off the trunk itself, off wood three inches thick and twenty years old,
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in Poets
You Reach My Inner Love So Sexually You reach my inner love so sexually, not with haste, not with a claim, but in the way you look straight through me,
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 7 months ago in Poets
The Cost of Casual Love She stands beneath a borrowed light, painted lips, a careful smile, men pass through her like passing weather,
It doesn’t knock. Just slides under the sill— the same draft that used to rattle the loose pane in ’09. I feel it first in the knuckles.
By Edward Smith7 months ago in Poets
Time Dilation of Absence Time is not what we were told, it does not move in a straight, kind line, it bends, stretches, distorts,
Lights — Camera — Action * before the moment arrived, I felt like I was about to conquer the world, or at least the room. I knew what I
By Lamar Wiggins7 months ago in Poets
Entropy Skin It begins at the smallest level, a shift you cannot see, atoms loosening their quiet grip, on what they once held together.
Event Horizon Heart There is a place where light gives up, not in flame, not in protest, but in a quiet surrender so complete,
I don't want to share this poem with anyone—and yet. And yet. Shame really does grow in the dark. Ten times a day, at least, it surfaces—
By Paul Aaron Domenick7 months ago in Poets
I do not abide by you any longer You have come around repeatedly Disparaging my character Belittling Annoying You make me question my decisions
By Julie Lacksonen7 months ago in Poets
When my grandfather nailed the last tin sheet down he drove each screw through the raised rib of the metal so the valley stayed open for water,
