They can break your heart, but they can't break your soul; poetry about lost love that comforts and uplifts.
~ i swam the depths of amber glass oceans of desire pulling me under caressed by waves of whiskey and malt; i stroked your ego with my drunken mouth
By Heather Hubler2 months ago in Poets
I keep a ring of metal moons that never learned my sky, a jangle of old alphabets that no more doors reply. They’re fossils of before-times, love—of locks we used to share,
By Milan Milic2 months ago in Poets
Some nights The body forgets it is a body. and remembers it is sky. All the dark patches, the places where the world
The Candle Flickered Love Died The candle burned low, dripping its light, holding the room in a fading glow. She watched the flame,
By Marie381Uk 2 months ago in Poets
This is not a confession. It is a correction. This is not guilt. It’s grief metabolized into rhythm. I didn’t leave I was locked out.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 2 months ago in Poets
Rooms Without Voices Some rooms hold, the weight of absence, heavier than anything, I could ever carry alone. Chairs remain still,
I often play a game of hide and seek with my heart I will turn my back Count to seemingly infinity When I open my eyes it is ii where to be found
By G.2 months ago in Poets
if I take all the love I have for her and leave it somewhere safe- in my art, with my friends, and, pressed between paper
By Amber Grace2 months ago in Poets
You were a nice person You had difficult times while you grew up Many enemies, people you thought were your enemies,
By Fatemeh Azimi2 months ago in Poets
I write you in the shade the mirror saves for after-hours— The color stores call cherry, the kind my mouth calls courage.
I gather you walking down the hall, your hands reaching for doors that have moved. I gather your voice calling names that do not belong to me,
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
A villanelle by Eliara Rae Silence never pays where words should flow For you no longer yearn for me like I do you, Yet I ache for those days long ago.
By Eliara Rae2 months ago in Poets
