We struck a match together The inaugural burst of sizzling flame blazed bright Orange light flickering across our faces Dancing reflections of mirrored flame in our eyes
By Amos Glade11 months ago in Poets
There is a heart the city keeps in the basement. It does not wear a stethoscope. It hums through manhole lids and sighs out of vents,
By Milan Milic11 months ago in Poets
💫✨ ✨Sunrises 💫Sunsets ✨Summer's long days 💫Accomplishing my school event ✨Finishing school 💫Painting again ✨A vacation
By Colleen Walters11 months ago in Poets
like a geode tossed down a mountainside cracked and shattered shards of me hang in the revealing sun how they shimmer
By K.B. Silver 11 months ago in Poets
Welcome to the Outstages Café. This dispatch is not a post; it is a ritual. A flame was lit. A veil was lifted. A correction was made.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 11 months ago in Poets
Map of the stars, map in my mind, map of the heart pressing rewind Rewind the tape, Go back to start, Where it began,
By Jennidoll of (jennidoll.inc)11 months ago in Poets
I found a shoebox in the dark behind a winter coat. Its cardboard spine is still whispering like a paper-throated throat. Inside: thin flags of afternoons we thought would never fade—
The lesson starts when you mistake a spark for a star, When gravity teaches your open palms to be hands, when streetlamps dim just enough to remember the night,
The roof remembers how we turn toward weather and light. Your vow was copper, spinning slow in the square of the window. We set our bearings not by maps, but by opened hands—
I am a memory hoarder. I mourn the loss of memories before they even have a chance to draw breath beyond their embryonic form. Amniotic fluid doubles as
By Paris Rosemont11 months ago in Poets
cartilage retrospection before philosophy coalesces a bright white internal flashbang then the sustaining subsonic realization
By Iris Obscura11 months ago in Poets
A cloudless sky A hushed breeze The leaves hold their breath The sun quietly exits Thoughts compete for the mic The school assignment looming
