Cathedral of Cracks My heart was never marble, never spotless, never sure; It’s brick and plaster, rent-controlled, resistant, and half impure.
By Milan Milic2 months ago in Poets
I was born twenty years too late to save a woman already unraveling. the apparent and ignored firestorm I came into the world a decade after the warning signs,
By Cadma2 months ago in Poets
He’s the one. He’s been there all along— watching, waiting, whispering through the folds of time, through the static hum of heartbreak and silence.
By THE HONED CRONE2 months ago in Poets
there's a line a few in fact that i forget the relevance so resolute in my affliction i take a moment turn it into a lifetime
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Poets
Anger and fear consumed my energy So I learned to pour the poison out on the page Devouring as much beauty as I can in its place
By K.B. Silver 2 months ago in Poets
I have your humor; I am quiet just like you I put it all together, a puzzle piece by piece I never want to, stir the waters blue
By Raine Fielder2 months ago in Poets
I speak in rhymes and mysteries Because that’s how I think My brain shittles riddles because it titillates my neurons It is how I do my best to get along in this world
By Atomic Historian2 months ago in Poets
We were the trees Sturdy on the land We gave life to one another We lived hand in hand The core of us the tree trunks
I'm tired and emotional and lonely and need gin, or cider or both. I don’t smoke, so that won’t help. And the kind of drugs
By Paul Stewart3 months ago in Poets
I look for you in the corridor and in the lift but only my haunted face hangs in the space between my eyes and the mirror you once filled.
By Wilkie Stewart3 months ago in Poets
Honey on the Wound You said the truth would sting at first—then sweeten where it should, So lay it bare, then breathe it in: put honey on the wound.
By Milan Milic3 months ago in Poets
Salted Hallelujah I kept my praise in jars of brine, a hush beneath the blue, a hymn that stung the tongue to sing, but still it wanted through.
