It starts slowly Your voice softens You speak less Join less Become less And they're fine If you spend a lot less time
By Raine Fielder7 months ago in Poets
It begins with a hush so wide you could walk across it— a pond before the stone, skin of the world stretched, waiting. ***
By Denise Larkin7 months ago in Poets
Watch me from a distance I asked you for so little But you gave me so much resistance Watch me as I’ve outgrown you
By Atomic Historian7 months ago in Poets
Clawing to the beginning of fallen lives, A breath. Revived. Bitterness tastes of a lover’s bride, She is caged. Breathing.
By A. Raphael7 months ago in Poets
“For Ernesto Ayala Jr., who dared to stand in light while the system cloaked itself in shadows.” Ernesto Ayala Jr., you will not vanish from memory.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 7 months ago in Poets
Lately life has been heavy to bear There's a dank sense of sadness permeating the air There's a faraway look in my eyes when I stare
By Syncere7 months ago in Poets
In the still, afore the rising sun, Many battles have left me undone, My world stands still, with nary a breath, My quiet heartbeat, flirting with death.
By The Schizophrenic Mom7 months ago in Poets
The cannibals call from down the hall SACRIFICE!! To save our lives Or civilization will fall The end begins when the maws open wide
Not the boy who painted stars on the wall of his broken school. Not the girl who dreamed of singing loud enough to drown the bombs.
By Shafi Ullah Darwesh7 months ago in Poets
A Breath Between Earths Earth 12 remembered. Earth 19 burned. This is the inhale between them. Sometimes the body speaks before the story does.
You came back in black for your father’s wake Wearing grief like a coat you didn’t want to take We met up at Lily’s, like the old days, all of us
By Brie Boleyn7 months ago in Poets
when your'e around, I feel awakened. a certainty comes despite where fate can take us the tremble of pain from within subsides;
By Scott Cathery7 months ago in Poets
