Most recently published stories in Poets.
I know why I’m here. This place is the only thing that’s real. These walls are dilapidated and crumbling, moss and roaches festering the foundations.
By Kourtney Risher8 years ago in Poets
My head has a heart beat I hear it pulsing in my ears like the tempo of a base drum The pain pulls at my eyes like two elephants sitting on the optic nerves
By Aubrey Boucher8 years ago in Poets
The internet can connect us more than ever in this technological era. Or distance us. Whatever comes first. For example, you can't talk to someone a thousand miles away face-to-face.
By Summer Orban8 years ago in Poets
Let's go in time To when you galloped on shooting stars Over open flame As I was choking on the fullness of your breath Because I was starving on the paragraphs swallowed
By Chelsea Carpenter8 years ago in Poets
Benjamin Franklin cried in the corner. His cotton blanket bleeding chlorophyll, saturating the gold encrusted floor. Bound in chains, his sadness turned into rage.
Sitting at the window table, watching the headlights turn to taillights in passing While an open door offers nothing but
By A. F. Litt8 years ago in Poets
The wind brushes the ocean waves, the water cold, unlike the warmth of steps once trodden. Sea birds calling across the surf, evoking thoughts
By Valentyna Holloway8 years ago in Poets
I am whole but not put together I am a whole entire mess of scattered pieces unnumbered with peculiar edges not knowing
A generation angry is a caged animal, a bear poked on countless occasions by those who wear its fur while filing its claws.
I've learned a few things in the last couple months. I've learned that sprite is the universal soft drink. It's just is. Think about it.
By Dani Lopez8 years ago in Poets
Inside you there's magic A gift within A place where your light shines The place to begin It may be a voice That longs to be heard
By Leanne Conner8 years ago in Poets
You take us in with your smile and make us fall for your southern charm. (not thinking that someone so beautiful could do such harm)
By La O.8 years ago in Poets
