Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
Psychic Attack The air tightens around me without warning, as if an unseen hand presses against my thoughts, and I feel the sharp edge of a force unspoken,
By Marie381Uk about a month ago in Poets
We all need the beady eyes of an irate ostrich staring down our souls. The lone and ancient dhow echoes the past and dissects the future from his lofty position.
By Paul Stewartabout a month ago in Poets
vibrant and saturated the colors of a true heart never fade gradients arrange and repeat the values lay broken a square of earth down ten feet
By ⸘jason alan‽about a month ago in Poets
Alas, I did not win, run up, or get mentioned, honorably or otherwise. Do I regret villanelle hell? I’ll never tell.
By Harper Lewisabout a month ago in Poets
She held the promise of heaven in the curve of her trembling hands, a miracle wrapped in swaddling cloth and laid upon the straw-soft land.
By Hannah Lambertabout a month ago in Poets
our love was a sapling, thin-stemmed, fragile, poised in quiet confidence. it was indescribable, the bliss i felt, growing in your taciturn nature.
By Daniel Kabout a month ago in Poets
The sharpening spurs my frenzied mockery of jollity The faster I step, the quicker my pain escapes Billowing like fog hovering over the coast of the sea
By K.B. Silver about a month ago in Poets
My roots breathe in the dark, quiet but alive— a pulse beneath the soil of my past. They remember everything: the tears I hid,
By Kashif Wazirabout a month ago in Poets
My roots speak in a language only my heart can hear— soft, steady, ancient. They tell me I was shaped by hands that loved me,
My roots carry the weight of every yesterday quiet, unshakable, honest. They are the ones who remind me that even when I bent,
My roots know the truth of me the quiet parts, the bruised parts, the pieces I hide from the world. They remember every goodbye,
My roots are quiet teachers soft voices humming beneath my feet. They tell me I was strong long before I learned the word.
