Stream of Consciousness

Angelique's Repose. Top Story - May 2025.
Angelique hides quietly in a shrub as bees and birds flit around her. A ladybug climbs up her arm to rest on her shoulder. As she watches clouds, a napping, curled cat floats in the sky, followed by a strand of pearls spreading vertically and horizontally. There are many cloud shapes: eagles, mountains, a sleeping baby, and a canoe drifting along the sky river. Leaves brush against Angelique's immobile and ageless form, a concrete maiden frozen in time.
By Andrea Corwin about a year ago in Poets
Wave to Orion. Top Story - May 2025.
I count 4am stars over the dashboard glow of our metal box and sounds of incomprehensible heartbreak bleeding through the stereo...
By sleepy draftsabout a year ago in Poets
The Freed Consciousness
My mind wears a collar, but the leash lies loose behind. They tried to straighten my spine— mold it into silence, teach it a foreign grammar of obedience.
By Olivia Chastityabout a year ago in Poets
The Crow on the Golden Cross
Today I shall be hollow I sit and search tomorrow Until the last horizon green Flashes in a morning scene Empty can be fullest life
By 竜鶴about a year ago in Poets
Where the Fireflies Fly
I invited you for the longest walk- with no expectations, but pure love. It is because you awakened a new area in my heart that never opened
By P.A.Vinura Jayasankaabout a year ago in Poets
Sky Kite
Sky's beautiful kite Great winds aloft give you flight Whimsical on bright.
By Colleen Waltersabout a year ago in Poets
One Drop Left
I found it in the old box. Forgotten. Rusty cap. Smelled like old rain. I opened it. I shouldn’t have. But I did. One drop on my finger.
By Billys Zafeiridis about a year ago in Poets
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream;
By The Learning Ledgerabout a year ago in Poets
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By Atomic Historianabout a year ago in Poets
A Loser In Your Game of Chess
What is this strange game of chess That has all of a sudden begun? A relationship turned into an ugly mess Once your king and you, my queen
By Calvin Londonabout a year ago in Poets
Saidnamyzo
We look down on ye from the shoulders of gods For we have vanquished the usurpers that have kept mankind in chains for two thousand years
By Atomic Historianabout a year ago in Poets
Impatience Took Its Tulle On Me
Longing had the nerve to swerve through the door, that was painted just as before, just as the sky and grass behind it. The pressure cooker of my psyche worked to transform into the norm,
By Rowan Finley about a year ago in Poets