Most recently published stories in Poets.
You used to stand on the bathroom stool, leaning close to the mirror mommy's lipstick in hand. Smearing lips with red,
By Bailey Johnston8 years ago in Poets
I am a human being strong and free, able to rise from the ashes as long as breath is within me. I make mistakes just as easily
By Stephanie Lifton8 years ago in Poets
With hardening orbs and a near frozen heart, within my blood a change jump starts. A gleeful laugh of madness bubbled past my lips,
May you keep a vision alive in your mind not a burning vision that blinds but a low lit flame that warms and draws you toward
By Ricky McQuillan8 years ago in Poets
I sit here empty trying to regain the peace within my soul, how did the love between us get sucked through a freaking black hole?
The Lioness So fierce and lovely Her hair was tan Like a lion's mane It seemed to flow In some unseen gust of wind Tall and thin
By A. R. Ambrosi8 years ago in Poets
What is it to write a story that tells its own tale? Words pour forth from an endless source and the pen does not drop 'til the thought of it is finish.
By B O R E D iN C H A Os8 years ago in Poets
"Fear is the pausing and positioning in two run down cafe chairs, before your lover looks around, pausing, Making zero eye contact
By Ed G8 years ago in Poets
Struggle has the spirit Gasping for air. Plunged head first Into water Again and again. Baptism by affliction. Before there was some fight.
By Kyle Ross8 years ago in Poets
"Do you feel her ache from across the room? dripping dark liquid, that used to be Fantasia film strips as a child, Her creative spirit spinning out of control,
The splitting image between my mother and I is as visible as can be, but from this mold I am planning to break free. You see she never got her GED
Am I a broken man who refuses to learn his lesson... ... or am I man who is being broken to learn a lesson? Life is crazy. Chaotic at times...
By Melvin Griffith8 years ago in Poets
