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Most recently published stories in Poets.

Migos, Cardi B, and Intersections
Black bodies Constructing follies Holy shit he has feelings too !? Black Lady Bute ass babies Wrapping up of the weave
By Traveling From Heavenly Places8 years ago in Poets
I Never Asked to Be Born
"I never asked to be born." I screamed back at you. You ruined my life!You ruined your own life. We both know it. Getting pregnant at 16, Failing your catholic religion.Tell me what's the greater sin; Premarital relationsOr birth control?
By Reagan Byrne8 years ago in Poets
I'm Leaving You Behind
It is time, I don't need you anymore in my life, You held me down, You held me back, I don't want you IN MY LIFE. I'm DONE with you FEAR,
By Crystal Korpan8 years ago in Poets
The Darkness Inside
DESPAIR, SORROW. Lying in bed. Darkness envelops All things gone Head exploding Nothing and Everything Wandering in this organ
By Briana Booker8 years ago in Poets
When, The Wasteland
Love is earned, seldomDeserved. Demanded,But always incomplete, becauseFor the entitled toStruggle equates an inadequacy.We have such wide eyesFor the fleeting high ofSunset love and movie magic,Making desperate uneasyAttempts to petrifyThe fields of Elysium,To eternalize the world beforeThe wasteland.Perhaps, because we know thatAll we have,All you have ever knownWill fade away, one day.These places and times of plentyFall victim to their wintered sleep,Both inevitable andImpermanent. A question ofWhen, not why.No one ever saidPerfect meantForever.
By Jake Sierzega8 years ago in Poets
Marriage Vows
You don't love me. Pause. Sigh. Tear. Yea, I hear you when you profess to me when you think I’m sleepin' And I see you every. single. solitary time you text me “my love”
By Imam Qadriyyah Mabel-Dorothy8 years ago in Poets
Come Home
Life was comfortable, Cozy at worst, I was thirteen and he was leaving first, I never saw it coming till one day he was gone,
By Sasha Lynne8 years ago in Poets
Now I See Why Folx Act Petty
when someone steals from you and you don't have proof you can't make as many moves as you'd like you can only accuse them so many times
By Imam Qadriyyah Mabel-Dorothy8 years ago in Poets
Broken Inside
Why is there so much chaos and discord eating me alive? Sorrow beyond measure leaving no choice but to withdraw and hide Pain so physical within my chest I would rather have died
By Antonia Cameron8 years ago in Poets
Losing
i feel like i’m losing him and it feels like that's just the way it's gonna be it might be what it is but that doesn’t mean i’m not sad
By Imam Qadriyyah Mabel-Dorothy8 years ago in Poets
A Letter to My 10th Grade Self
Dear me, Put the blade down, wipe those tears Please stop abusing your body Climb out of bed, put a smile on your face Be the happy person you used to be
By Bry Frank8 years ago in Poets
After Last Night
my heart lay heavy this morn constant reminders of my people's stagnance holds my breathe all talk shyt talk behind closed doors and backs
By Imam Qadriyyah Mabel-Dorothy8 years ago in Poets