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The Things I Never Said at Her Funeral
I didn’t speak at her funeral. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I couldn’t. Because my voice caught somewhere between my ribs and my throat and refused to come out. Because the things I had to say didn’t feel like they’d fit in a neat paragraph of remembrance. Because how do you summarize a person in a few minutes when they took up your whole heart for years?
By Jawad Khan7 months ago in Poets
Building Blocks
Introduction This idea came into my head to build a poem about the parts that we can use to create a poem. I thought about a reverse nonet, but what I am using is several bits of poetic formats starting with an introductory quatrain, though I wanted that to be a single line but the nature of what I needed to say required some details, so this will be very much a mish mash of forms but I will maintain eight syllables a line, and throw in some rhymes.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Poets
The Last Vote
Ethan Clarke’s hands trembled as he gripped the cold metal railing of his balcony. Below, the streets buzzed with the fading cheers from his election rally. At twenty-eight, he was the youngest provincial assembly member ever elected from his district — a victory that surprised even his closest supporters.
By Arshad khan7 months ago in Poets
