Sometimes, I'm still in the hospice bed of my mother, My hand encircled hers. as if I could hold her back. I played with her hair, sluggish from illness, and attempted to recall what her previous scent was.
By AlaTrend8 months ago in Poets
Tiny feet and softer cries, Golden down and beaming eyes, You came like sunshine in my hand, A fleeting joy I didn’t plan.
By verse voyager8 months ago in Poets
I wished you'd Steeled your heart, like I have mine, taken them all and moved back to Memphis before it was too late, yet I'd not be the poet here.
By ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)8 months ago in Poets
Swing Me Higher Than the Sky Swing me higher than the sky no really, higher I want my toes to kick the clouds I want to forget
By Marie381Uk 8 months ago in Poets
Stop the Wars of Man-Made Hate Stop the wars not just the ones with tanks and boots but the quiet ones fought in boardrooms
the sunlight casts a glow through the shadow of the leaves dancing on the pavement like the break of water on the sea
By Raine Fielder8 months ago in Poets
We have a backyard garden, and among the colorful flowers, there is a red tricycle and a pink scooter, it’s a symbol that,
By Seema Patel8 months ago in Poets
I. Then I called you by your dead name, The one that makes your shoulders flinch, Whenever spoken out into the ether,
By Jennifer Vasallo 8 months ago in Poets
There's a fleeting moment in time As the flicker illuminates your face In this mother's mind of mine, Somewhere inside, there' still a trace
By Lora Coleman8 months ago in Poets
I never knew silence could sound like an old clock ticking in an empty room, like your slippers still sitting by the door,
By Fazal Hadi8 months ago in Poets
I love you, but please - just pass. No one can say these words, but when your hand is like doughy fire in mine, your forehead webbed with pained lines,
By S. A. Crawford8 months ago in Poets
A poem from my "Sunset Diaries" collection Moon in Aqua Sunset Sunset Confessions Dusk until dawn These words that I pen
By Jennidoll of (jennidoll.inc)8 months ago in Poets
