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Jesus Has Done It Again.
Jesus has done it again He rewinds the years I lost in tears He gives me joy for all the pain From drained out seasons, wealth has grown again
By Test18 days ago in Poets
Awaken Me
Frost houses my ghosts Your light shines, life has returned Finally, I breathe
By Mikayla Rose18 days ago in Poets
Freedom
Cold and desolate I need a flame to free me Your love lit the match
By Mikayla Rose18 days ago in Poets
Companionship
Dog lay close to me While the cat purrs quietly Love surrounds us all
By MCR18 days ago in Poets
Burning Maples
have you ever smelled the maple fire blow over unrelenting cold?
By Bugsy Watts18 days ago in Poets
While It Lasts
“My next story will be about us” “I’ll impatiently wait for your new story‘s notification” There’s so much I could write about us, yet I don’t seem to find the words to express myself to you, to them. As short as the time we spent together, I learned your way. I saw you.
By Semra Laureen Hill Jean18 days ago in Poets
Wind That Arrived Before Words
The morning wind arrived before the sun fully woke. It slipped between houses, brushed against closed windows, and carried with it the cool breath of night that had not yet learned the warmth of day. It did not knock or announce itself. It simply moved—softly at first, like a thought forming before language.
By Farhad18 days ago in Earth
The Deep of You
I want to draw water from the deep well of your mind, and tend the garden of your soul. Lifting you above the waves of translucent amazement,
By Rowan Finley 18 days ago in Poets
Then, Try
Then try— not because the road is kind, not because the sky has promised you blue, not because the world is waiting with applause,
By Farhad18 days ago in Humans
Rat-Out-Atouille
When I woke up, the room was empty. Completely. They even cleaned up the blood that had pooled beneath me. That might come back to bite them, literally.
By Meredith Harmon18 days ago in Fiction
When Intelligence Learned to Help
The city woke up every morning before the sun, not because people demanded it, but because systems whispered to one another in the dark. Traffic lights adjusted their rhythms, power grids balanced invisible loads, and hospitals reviewed silent streams of data, preparing for the day ahead. At the heart of all this motion was something most citizens rarely thought about anymore: artificial intelligence. It did not announce itself. It did not boast. It simply worked.
By Farhad18 days ago in Humans
The River That Learned to Think
The river did not always know its own name. Long before maps pressed blue lines onto paper and engineers carved numbers into stone, it was simply motion—water listening to gravity, shape, and time. It slid over pebbles, bent around roots, and sang to the air in a language older than words. Yet on one quiet morning, as sunlight fractured into trembling diamonds on its surface, the river began to wonder why it moved the way it did.
By Farhad18 days ago in Earth