eight months ago, i wandered, mindless reflections of heavy-weighted footsteps were rippled and shocked over and over until they swallowed themselves, unpleasantly
By Ruby Redabout a year ago in Poets
My anxiety is through the roof. The truth — Be damned ! Unplanned scrolling doling out unnecessary feelings I’m dealing
By Brooke Farrarabout a year ago in Poets
If you are a believer, you have your reasons. Most likely, you learned from your family. The world is full of griefs, often hard to make sense of,
By Seema Patelabout a year ago in Poets
The morning broke in muted gray, A fog of doubt, a dull delay— No sun to burn the shadows through, Just whispered winds of what I knew.
By Just One of Those Thingsabout a year ago in Poets
It's going to be violent tonight when my thoughts collide and pin the blame on what parts of me were responsible for the errors
By Euan Brennanabout a year ago in Poets
In the belly of the dusk, when the moonlight limps, A creature stirs with delicate limbs. Silent wings and a needle-thin beak,
By Muhammad Abdullahabout a year ago in Poets
"No one said this would be dangerous..." Bat at the ready, those targets don't give up and move laterally. Nowhere but the nameless roads or
By Willem Indigoabout a year ago in Poets
O Inland Taipan, crowned in sand, With venom held in slender hand, Thou art no villain of the tale— But Man, ah Man! The true betrayal.
Beneath the sun-scorched scar of sand, Where silence slithers across the land, There moves a breathless, coiled command— The Inland Taipan, death unmanned.
Above the din where cities groan, Beyond the clouds where dreams are blown, There flies a thought the winds have known— A Peregrine of flame and bone.
Blisters on both my hands Feet hurting from the miles of errands Everybody has a thick rope Used in dragging their past while searching for hope
By Harydo Neonabout a year ago in Poets
I see you. Not the smile you wear like a brittle mask, But the storm behind your eyes— The broken glass glittering beneath your words.