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Mindless scrolling Looking for validation online Filling the time Filling the void Someone just liked my post Fleeting happiness
By Zachary Phillips4 years ago in Poets
A New Horizon Poem
We once sang a sweet melody in the joyful month of June, "Gracious Come With Me To The Valley Of The Moon!" We will go about in garments
By news Recap4 years ago in Poets
She Weeps Fruit
She tastes the world through separated lips, Gulping the ocean immersed air with an inquisitive tongue What's more, swallows in parched swallows
By Ranju rana4 years ago in Poets
hearts shattered
we boarded the ship of dreams with smiles of tomorrow the ship sailed the ocean towards the sunset of glamours waters i seen the beauty of magnificent splashes hit the waves at sea
By Shanell Brown4 years ago in Poets
A poem about choices.
Sometimes we're dealt a bad hand and there's nothing we can do about it We just have to smile and grin and take it I tried to trick the dealer once,
By suresh crouch4 years ago in Poets
Love & Distortion
I keep remembering what it feels like to be trapped in a room, hands clenched around your throat, kicking, squirming, eyes wide with terror. No breath escaping as the hand that are supposed to love you clamp down hard and painfully over your mouth. Now wondering if this is my last moment before consciousness fades.
By Tiffany Jackson4 years ago in Poets
We messed up the colours
I think we've messed up the colours love is green, fear is red just like math solitude is beige, and sometimes a bruise purple.
By Cristina Pineros4 years ago in Poets
A Prologue
A duel of bloodlines, both shed red and proud (In fair Verona - seems so young to me), Their so-called ancient grudge makes their cry loud,
By Persephone Stylet4 years ago in Poets
My Favorite Character
People are not my thing I want them to be- they never have been I try to relate- fall flat Try again Observation has become my art
By MJ Wood4 years ago in Poets
4 Hours (or, ODE TO OUR EPIC ROMANCE)
They say it takes 4 minutes of staring into someone’s eyes to fall completely in love with them. So when I stared into yours for
By Ellen Stedfeld4 years ago in Poets
Dreams of you
The day I first saw you our eyes did not meet you were not alone and we did not speak You were handsome, yes
By Jennidoll of (jennidoll.inc)4 years ago in Poets
Excerpt from Up and Down the Ladder
Dear friends, I'm extremely happy to inform you that I've published and sold a paperback poetry book on Amazon. Since Feburary 24th 2022, I've been a proud, driven and passionate published poet! For my entire life, I've dreamed of publishing at least 1 book that people can purchase and read, and that day finally came. I finally crossed it off my "mental bucket list" of things I want to accomplish and create in life.
By Talia Devora4 years ago in Poets