Little flower in the ground, With petals more delicate than eyes see, Reminding us of life's vulnerabilities.
By Carol Ann Townend8 months ago in Poets
Sometimes I stop and listen to my breathing My beating heart is a wonderful feeling. Hearing the wind blowing the leaves in the trees
By Elizabeth Woods8 months ago in Poets
Distant thunder rolls Over the winter garden Birds take flight in turn Expectant twigs swell Desire does not wait for spring
By Laura Hanson Reber8 months ago in Poets
Never hide your scars from me. They take nothing from your beauty. They are reminders of your strength. Most of your scars can’t be seen.
By Jesse Lee8 months ago in Poets
They say don't talk! Hush but follow the Jesus Christ walk. They say We know! Theology they claime a bodily love. They say
By Diana8 months ago in Poets
It starts within her fragile chest a weight that will not let her rest Her heart protests with aching sound yet nowhere safe can now be found
By Abi Rose Travis8 months ago in Poets
In the approach of serious matters, rhyme is a distraction that only clatters hollow, noisy emphasis on endings, even if it causes the middle’s rending.
By Harper Lewis 8 months ago in Poets
The vast surroundings breathe beautiful, soft, gasping breaths the air settling gently into the black atmosphere, low clouds rolling, early in pregnancy
By Reece Beckett8 months ago in Poets
The streetlamp’s amber glow returns, steady as a promise, its light a compass for the wandering, the weary, the brave. Together you paint new verses on the city’s skin—
By Forest Green8 months ago in Poets
A house made of steel‑bones and winding alleys, where laughter once rang like a subway’s hymn, you felt the sudden hush of a shuttered storefront—
Cold Quiet Dip Before Sleep Ice waits in the white bath, still as a held breath, A woman lowers herself slowly, testing the silence of water.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 8 months ago in Poets
I. Darkness is the man who doesn’t know himself. The one who think he stands in the light with a foot planted on the edge
By Dean Traylor8 months ago in Poets