They can break your heart, but they can't break your soul; poetry about lost love that comforts and uplifts.
My life keeps ending up on a crumpled grocery list wedged in my back pocket. Milk, eggs, bread, spinach if I feel like someone
By Milan Milic10 months ago in Poets
I have a hoodie I only wear on days when the air Feels too sharp for skin. It used to be navy, now it’s that tired, almost-black
The call came through after years gone by, A voice once wrapped in half-truths, lies— A friend who’d set a time to meet, Then vanish, leaving me incomplete.
By Anthony Chan10 months ago in Poets
Korydwen! Korydwen! Truest of Breton hearts *** To your beauty Even the sea Proclaims Unrelenting love *** With a’heart of gold
By Matthew J. Fromm10 months ago in Poets
Jack the Ripper I walked the streets where fog felt alive, where lamps shook faintly as if afraid to shine, his shadow lingered
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 10 months ago in Poets
I drink from the same chipped mug On the days I don’t know how to be a person. It’s the one with the hairline fracture running down the handle like a secret vein,
dark flames cocoon my colorless body Dark flames clean out the sin As I pray for an Angel of mercy to take me away Dark flames that rise a Dark Angel from my ashes
By Melissa Ingoldsby10 months ago in Poets
The Voice Beneath Beneath the floorboards it whispered, Calling names I had never known, The air trembled with old grief,
You rather be the one that got away. Be alone, keep your guard up, and lead my heart astray. Jump ship and act like you never cared.
By Brooklyn Bella10 months ago in Poets
The flame I had just burned out Like the embers in my fire I can forgive, but I can’t forget I never thought of you as a liar.
By Calvin London10 months ago in Poets
I keep your name as a password still, a quiet glitch in my free will. Four numbers, two letters, the month that we met— security question I can’t quite forget.
the discovery process objectionable but uncontested justified prejudice stayed within jurisdiction but not one single peer in the twelve
By ⸘jason alan‽10 months ago in Poets