Ode

One Work: Three Musicians
As we all tune up, I feel the rhythm, tempo... Can you hear it now? * Okay, not my best, but I like Raymond's Challenge, and I encourage you to enter and see what you can come up with. And also, this is my 900th piece on Vocal. Seems to call for a celebration?
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Poets
~The Raven to the Sky!~
~The Raven to the Sky! ~ The Raven The Raven The Raven, Speaks again. The silence Of injustice Through the years, Through the years
By Jennifer Cooley4 months ago in Poets
Smoke from the Ancestors 🔥💨
In the cloudy puff, I see a path back — back, back, back — back into the eons. The swirling smoke for the people was seen as a bridge between our world and the spirit world. And the smoke remains for us a bridge to those people. The ancestors.
By Gabriel B. Shames4 months ago in Poets
Owlery
Introduction This is my seventeenth piece inspired by Justine G. Cappelli's beautiful and inspirational artwork. It is inspired by Justine's painting and Owl lore
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 months ago in Poets
Caledonia. Top Story - June 2026.
I sat o’er peaks And loch and quay Outside the wee town Of Pitlochry Upon sacred ground Amongst standing stone And thistled paths
By Matthew J. Fromm4 months ago in Poets
No, Don’t turn around now
You hear it now, don’t you? That scraping sound beneath the anthem,  that crack beneath the stars and stripes,  the hiss of something hungry  slipping through the seams of a nation that once swore never again.
By Cadma4 months ago in Poets
~Such a Terrible life!~
~Such a Terrible Life!~ "God Help My Soul!" Last words of Edward Allen Poe! "God help my soul" Such a terrible life, Baltimore killed me... (with their drink),
By Jennifer Cooley4 months ago in Poets
Signs from your Spirit
I went for a walk the day you died Just a few weeks ago, the Universe warned me A storm had knocked down a huge tree One that I saw all the time
By Kathleen Anderson 4 months ago in Poets
American Mutt
Blessed are we with soil stained hands I hear we have clean hearts But make no mistake We give more than we take the sun always rises- so shall we
By Darcie M. Trembley4 months ago in Poets
Étaín And The Butterfly
Introduction This is my sixteenth piece inspired by Justine G. Cappelli's beautiful and inspirational artwork. It is inspired by Justine's painting with elements of the legend of Étaín.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 months ago in Poets
Fire In The Sky
Introduction This is my hundred-and-seventh piece inspired by Angie Livingstone's amazing and magical artwork. The Summer Solstice is on the 21st of June 2026, so this is the third poem to celebrate it.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 months ago in Poets
You’re not going
My mirror asked again the same question Are you going to carry it again? The broken years. The names that still taste like rust.
By Cadma4 months ago in Poets