I was intact before you. *** Not whole. Just unbroken. *** The dark knew me. It kept its distance. *** Then you arrived
By Aarsh Malik15 days ago in Poets
It’s great fun, stacking the wood, weaving the kindling through the gaps in the logs. Striking the match is its own pleasure, the friction bursting the tiny stick
By Harper Lewis15 days ago in Poets
We believed everything was reversible. Nights were borrowed. Mornings were optional. Mistakes were just stories
By Libby Meggerson15 days ago in Poets
The Names We All Forgot Mean Nothing The names we all forgot mean nothing, They slip through memory like rain, We carried them once like scripture,
By Marie381Uk 15 days ago in Poets
I thought a degree would open a door and I would step through it carrying sentences like a key. But the door didn’t open.
By Diani Alvarenga15 days ago in Poets
I place my ear to the side of the metal bed frame Wait Listen Focus on the clanging that reverbrates between the poles
By Oneg In The Arctic15 days ago in Poets
By candlelight I sit in the still night air the only motion is the candle's steady flicker heavy thoughts weigh like boulders
By Colleen Walters15 days ago in Poets
Rejoice When He Reaches Out To You Rejoice when he reaches out to you, Even if his hands shake, Grace is rarely confident,
I don’t look in the mirror anymore Or take pictures of my youth I used to have a self portrait To show I was made In the image of you
By Sidney Smith (Sid Smith)15 days ago in Poets
Heroes Are Over Rated Sometimes Heroes are over rated sometimes, They arrive too late or not at all, They love the sound of cheering,
Today And Always Today sits heavy on my chest, Always presses where scars live, Love does not ask for permission, It takes whatever you can give.
My husband makes terrible pancakes, but he makes them with love, gently cracking the egg, releasing it from the shell to flow in a plasma-like state into the bowl,
By Harper Lewis16 days ago in Poets
