Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Poets.

Puerile Boats
The ending of summer was never clear; Rotten grass, bright horizon, and reliving memories; Stretching my arms towards the angelic sky,
By Lane Buckler8 years ago in Poets
A Letter to My Freshman-Year Self
Dear me: You won't understand that the gravitational weight of stepping Into your first year of high school Is the same as stepping on the moon;
By inky o8 years ago in Poets
Fear
You took the light and made it dark You drained the blood from the veins in my heart You started a war within my head Constantly battling till my soul was dead
By Alise Johnson8 years ago in Poets
Home Abandoned
Old rugs and frayed ends. Broken glass and forgotten times. Empty cupboards and cobwebbed corners. The cracked floorboards senescence. The most astounding pendent hanging above, dust-covered; derelict. The presence of the past still lingering in the now uninhabitable infinite. The long grass, encompassing, portraying the lost to the living.
By lizzy danby8 years ago in Poets
Delicate Flower
Petals of pink lay on the the ground beneath my feet. Picked up by the wind and carried down the streets. Individual petals representing small parts of a whole,
By EK Harmann8 years ago in Poets
Risk Takers
How can a person say that what you vision is a joke? Although, it is your life you only get once If you never try than you will be broke
By Charlene Ellison8 years ago in Poets
Who Is This Woman?
Who is the woman she portrays to be? Who is this woman in the mirror? Is she deep and passionated or is she haunted and alone?
By Alexis Quintana8 years ago in Poets
Faith
An armor of steel to protect a heart of glass, falling from grace, she won’t be at Sunday’s mass. Sinking in the shadows from the depths her soul,
By M. C8 years ago in Poets
The Kiss of Death
The Kiss of Death. Her beauty and grace covered by black lace. Her vibrant red lips shine with snake venom to pierce your soul with its icy cold bullet that carries through your bones. She whispers ever so softly the words of death's song which rings with an echo throughout your eardrums “Are you ready to fly?”
By Cayley Connor8 years ago in Poets
Sadness in the Dark
It's okay if you go my, my, what I wish of my life would never come true Sadness over the river I give my heart for death
By Jade phillips8 years ago in Poets
Much More Tangible Than Mine
When I think of what we had, I close my eyes and grasp the bad Try to destroy the pain I caused you and illuminate the gains we went through
By Isabella Summer8 years ago in Poets
The Speckles
The speckles in the air flow so freely between the stories of the trees The babies of there leaves have released there offspring
By Isabella Summer8 years ago in Poets