They can break your heart, but they can't break your soul; poetry about lost love that comforts and uplifts.
Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is not doing something, like not lighting a cigarette, or not seeing your grandson.
By Harper Lewisabout a month ago in Poets
Black Water The water looked calm from the edge, smooth as an unbroken lie. Nothing warned me what lived beneath, nothing marked the reason why.
By Marie381Uk about a month ago in Poets
Maybe This Time" Maybe this time, someone played a trick on us— a love so loyal, now turned to dust, fading slowly into colors
By _a_whisper_of_sorrowabout a month ago in Poets
You never raised your voice— That was the trick. Like a faucet left barely open, all night, all week, until the sink started smelling like metal.
By Milan Milicabout a month ago in Poets
The urge to die hits me first thing stronger than anything. It circles in my head then pierces me - a sharp spike.
By Moon Desertabout a month ago in Poets
You used to call me “easy,” like a compliment, like I was a hoodie you could steal and wear out the elbows on. I laughed. I always laughed.
The Quiet Thought It arrived without a warning, small and calm and well behaved. A thought that asked a simple thing, then quietly stayed.
A Toast to Family & Friends Gone but Not Forgotten Glasses lifted high, in the flicker of light, we spoke their names softly,
After the Screaming After the screaming there is stillness, a ringing left in the air. The kind of quiet that feels earned,
I perform my chores like a good, young lady Scrubbing the table, and dreaming my life away Screams shrill, she SLAMS the door
By Chantal Christie Weissabout a month ago in Poets
The Robins Know True Love They sit close on a winter branch at dawn, feathers pressed where the cold cannot divide, no vows spoken, no promise written down,
The Mask That Hides the Hurt She paints her face in daylight tones and grace, a practiced smile perfected over years, no crack allowed to show the faulted ground,
