I’ve searched for you in the ocean I’ve searched for you in the skies I’ve searched for you in other’s eyes I’ve searched for you all our lives
By Atomic Historian6 months ago in Poets
I can still smell the milk drying on my shirt that night, a faint sweetness woven into fatigue, the kind of scent that clung to me long after the room went quiet.
By Carolina Borges6 months ago in Poets
My spouse is bald, without hair on top. He may not look handsome to average people, but to me, he is beautiful - let me tell you why.
By Seema Patel6 months ago in Poets
For my children, May the world never dim your light, May you walk around with open eyes, Seeing beauty in others as you pass by.
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹6 months ago in Poets
The scent of chocolate cherry lattes makes me cry I haven’t flown home in a year Been wondering why I love my father enough
By Katarina Tyler6 months ago in Poets
I wish I could forgive my father. speak to him in piano forte and soft resonance remember him in calm cashmere knits swirling steam from coffee
In a violet dress peppered with daisies, I dangle my bare, dirt-stained toes over our unfinished porch. We had hotdogs with
By Madison "Maddy" Newton6 months ago in Poets
Operating under the misconception that fear of vomit precludes a career in medicine, she will choose. Not the terrifying trumpet of a patient retching — salivary and dental.
By Roxanne Sukol6 months ago in Poets
All I ever wanted was to swallow the whiskey in your throat I didn’t hear the church in your chest calling me home with a makeshift choir caroling to my spine
I remember my mom Or my dad Or maybe both? Probably not both, they hated eachother by then I remember My mom or my dad or probably-not-both
By Sam Spinelli6 months ago in Poets
Stop pretending that you're nice That you're easy-going. Cavalier. Free. Because you'd talk shit about any person who did half of this to me.
By Sara Wilson6 months ago in Poets
Time isn’t fair. It wouldn’t dare pull you from your grave, yet it pulls at me every night, with that single thread of sound I can’t untangle from silence.
