The stretch marks caught the light. Like silver lines drawn too fast to stay straight. I was on the couch, tea gone cold,
By Louise Williams7 months ago in Poets
I remember when you were very small, So very young and not yet tall. I protected you throughout the years; Always washed away your tears.
By Margaret Brennan7 months ago in Poets
I was walking in the middle, the bottom had fallen out. I looked at the parking lot and I saw nothing but desolate souls. Then a scene caught my attention,
By Susan Payton7 months ago in Poets
She didn’t learn love — she remembered it. A child in a home where walls spoke in shouts, and love was measured in punishments and fear,
By Liora Vogel 7 months ago in Poets
The room remembers what I try to forget, The hush that follows a word unsaid. The curtain still sways with the open pane,
By Mahmood Afridi7 months ago in Poets
Light Up the Sky Not every fire is joy, you know some burn slow in silence names we carry, names we’ve lost etched in folded absence
By Marie381Uk 7 months ago in Poets
He Isn’t the Brightest Yet he knows how to cook a roast He isn’t the brightest of the bunch can’t spell mayonnaise without a guess
For Those Who Fell Before the Flag Was Raised Not for glory not for gold but for something soft and loud at once a quiet wish carried in calloused hands
The Land I Know Independence day I don’t wear stars or paint my face don’t need a banner to love this place It’s in the soil, the open land
At this point—covered and oozed, Not quite. Oh, it’s paint! It’s glowing! Hi… goodnight? To everyone, try to sleep (So not in light) But good luck if seen... Mice!
By K.A. Smith7 months ago in Poets
Idealistic at times notwithstanding what determines the ideas that educates peoples' ideas and explains the many noteworthy
By Mark Graham7 months ago in Poets
You showed up three hours late It was your daughter’s sixth birthday But you, you had a hot date. I thought of a million things to say;
By Andrew C McDonald7 months ago in Poets
