Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
You’re nine years old and your mother is crying in a doctor’s office At the top of a tower that must be in the clouds She’s not sad, she says (insists)
By Megan Schlanker6 years ago in Poets
The wind is blowing but the wind chimes are frozen solid, they can't sing Every hour I realize something. Every hour spinal fluid traces up and down my back. Every hour this spine of mine grows colder and stronger.
By Siri Olïn6 years ago in Poets
Does the color of our love offend you? I can feel your hate boil over like over cooked stew As you pass us by with your piercing eyes
By Kendrick Williams6 years ago in Poets
Why do we have to hate It can’t just be that we can’t relate When Scientifically we are just a bundle of cells trying to be great
My Human is Heavy – my Human Skin my Human Heart the Innate Stardust encapsulated within my Human forged in Nuclear Fusion
By Tarsha Renee6 years ago in Poets
I dream about our bodies getting lost in a sea of bliss. Settings could be crowded or intimate. Still your touch brought peace and with every kiss came ease.
By Ynot The Priceless One6 years ago in Poets
If I only knew To take my time when gettin' to know you, I could've saved my time - Not waste it. Our love was tainted,
By The Vivid Dreamer6 years ago in Poets
And so the real identity revealed The new age of identity theft policed Oh! If stupidity was a person, it would have been him
By Harydo Neon6 years ago in Poets
Father Christmas himself will have to rethink his role in the future I guess.... So much of it came to be about greed At the expense of need.
By Sarah-Jane Mackenzie6 years ago in Poets
I’m done being scared to be scared. I’m done hiding from all this pain. I’m done hiding from the trauma you caused me.
By Bianca Wargo6 years ago in Poets
Finally Free! Free to be me. Free to believe. Free to achieve. You put me in a state of persecutory delusion; I was in such a state of confusion,
By Vanessa Dorothy6 years ago in Poets
Speak, oh Wild One! Express your heart. Be inspired by the wildfires which transpire from the declaration of your deepest desires,
By Jara Dekker6 years ago in Poets