Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Poets.

Prom Dress
I'm going to see you one last time I'm going to see your face But you're not there, and you never were It's been a while since you left this place
By Sophia Merici8 years ago in Poets
Accept Me or Don't
What do you do when you find yourself in a state of being where you become two people? I have found myself living in such an existence. A place where there is still a glimmer of that person that I used to be before and the one that I have become from slowly being torn apart by emotion from the inside out.
By Angel Dennis8 years ago in Poets
Happiness
Does happiness mean sunshine? Does happiness mean light? Does happiness mean you wake up each day Or get to sleep at night?
By Sophia Merici8 years ago in Poets
Tattoos
When you look at a tattoo do you see just a symbol of art or a mistake? Also, I am guilty of this as well and I have tattoos…does that make me a hypocrite
By Charlene Ellison8 years ago in Poets
Sea Sick Duck
22 Twenty-two A two and a two Two little ducks Ten years, times two, plus two No matter how you say it How your write it
By Sophia Merici8 years ago in Poets
Distant
There’s this distance I can’t see it but I feel it It lingers in the air as we communicate As we negotiate just how we can be
By Holly Santonato8 years ago in Poets
The Power of Laughter
Have you ever just felt like you had a day that was the absolute worst Then later that day you begin to change your mood
By Charlene Ellison8 years ago in Poets
Let's Talk
You asked me, "What is there to talk about?" Let's talk about my earliest childhood memory in which my mother is unconscious on the bed
By Alice Gru8 years ago in Poets
To the Longing
I can still hear the pulsing in my ears. Your eyes were shining with so much pining. I prayed to whomever, that you not see my tremor
By Clarissa Joyce8 years ago in Poets
Break
My heavy heart, with every heaving breath All it needs; a break... Ouch—it all hurts so much! My heavy heart can not withstand the suffering you’re putting me through!
By Ashley Ramos8 years ago in Poets
I Never Thought
I never thought I'd see a stranger in your eyes, I never thought I would wonder what’s behind those eyes, I never thought I would wonder are those lies you tell me,
By Yvonne Knight8 years ago in Poets
Supermarket
It’s 3 PM I just finished sleeping off A hangover. I got four hours to kill until My shift starts At the guard house At the garage on Canal Street.
By Dyl Elner8 years ago in Poets