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March 2025
March 2025 Will it ever be enough that I am still to grow, that I am capable of a sprout, that the things I feel cannot be acted behind a curtain on stage, will it ever be enough to look at me, to sit with me in a booth made of red leather, to share a purse and fill it with soil, will it ever be enough that you are wearing a stain of my heart, that you can build a cross and nail me to it, that you can board the windows and leave me here, leave me with a bowl of water, leave me, leave me, leave me, leave me with sunlight, leave me for a greenhouse, will it ever be enough to see a single stem, will it ever be enough to flower twice a year, will it ever be enough to touch one leaf and let me wilt through winter, to wait and wait and wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait behind the curtain, wait in the window, wait here and hold this, wait for me to feel warmth
By Olivia Dodge11 months ago in Poets
Clear Head
Friday, January 17, 2025, was the last day of my ingesting any marijuana for six months. I wanted to run a test on myself to see if I was relying on the good old Mary Jane to function in my life. I wanted to see how my reactions and actions changed - if at all.
By Shannon Lemire11 months ago in Poets
Sarcastic Poetry
Well, this really bites. I thought Vocal was going to be the future of journalism, it's not. I thought Vocal was going to be a new career for me, it's not. I thought Vocal was going to produce fresh, original, and authentic writers who could lead lovers of the word into the future, it's not. Vocal is just another loser like Allpoetry filled with pompous, lazy, untalented people who will use the cheapest tricks like Ai and Grammerly and any other dimwitted lazy tactic they can find to pretend that they are actually writers. They're not. Congratulations on another Top Story. They might as well call that the Plastic Ai Award. Good bye Vocal. You're nothing but a dream squashing bologna sandwich with fake cheese. Your Top Stories are probably calculated by some formula put into the computer program that spits out the carefully chosen Ai contributions that have paid to keep this website online. I am disillusioned again, but I'll recover my dignity and clarity quicker than in the past. Tell all those bozos at the most noble, honorable, and highly esteemed institutions (like M.I.T) that their new apps and websites are even worse than their old ones and if no one cares about the History or English professors, then no one cares about your new tech class or invention.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman11 months ago in Poets
