The river remembers, remembers what we cannot hold, Ashes in the wind burn under the sky, My hands claw at ghosts, claw at ghosts that won't grow old.
By E.S.Flint 10 months ago in Poets
Ever try to explain depression? Watch each word fall short, whittled into something slight. I keep regretting every softened confession.
By Patrick Gadoury10 months ago in Poets
(1)I’ve been carried with so many sins- (2)Sadly, I went through isolation, exclusion, and judgement… (3)I felt remorse everyday and night…
By Meghan LeVaughn 10 months ago in Poets
Two entities exist, same but opposite in nature Happily existing in parallel dimensions of colorless bliss One brings light, the other heralds the darkness
By Antoni De'Leon10 months ago in Poets
As the light of my hope grows dim, I hang my head and weep. And time has become my enemy.
By Pamela Walsh-Holte10 months ago in Poets
I led the way out of hell But I looked behind, I didn’t look ahead As I walked, I tried not to dwell * As I walked, I tried not to oversell
By Reb Kreyling10 months ago in Poets
Happiness is a long distant memory That grows smaller, that stays further. It doesn’t hop up on the train, unmoving history.
By Linétte 10 months ago in Poets
Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. Once an accommodating man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard.
By Christopher Hales10 months ago in Poets
I keep returning to the night you walked away, your shadow fading slow like a whispered prayer, and still my heart repeats the things I couldn’t say.
By Kashif Wazir10 months ago in Poets
I should have bit my tongue. Maybe then things would have stayed the same. Should have locked up my desires, taken them to the grave.
By Claire Gilliland10 months ago in Poets
The longing stays, no matter how time moves on, I whisper these words when the night feels too deep. Your shadow returns even when you are gone.
when symmetry surrenders to extremes we are besieged by headlines tinged with dread but this world looks away while the earth screams
By Martina Franklin Poole 10 months ago in Poets