Stories in Poets that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
Running for my life. I’m running for my life. I am running until I can taste the blood bubble up in my mouth. I am running until I can feel my lungs.
By eawilcox2 years ago in Poets
This moment will triumph and crystalize, leaving examples of harmony in its wake. Declare your right to be utterly glamorized.
By Lamar Wiggins2 years ago in Poets
Am I a true bird, if I never fly again or an imposter? *** You could lose your beak or evolve to teleport. Still would be a bird.
By RP2 years ago in Poets
When I sleep I dream you're gone from me, But I find you in a theater showing a movie we've already seen. I run out half-way through; you run after me
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
she swings from broken to wrathful tick to tock cursing those who harmed her her heart calcified rock believing the sword
By Kayleigh Fraser ✨2 years ago in Poets
My life hasn't passed the Bechdel test since you left. So hung up on the empty space you scraped out of my chest. I'm trying to learn to live without spite,
By Jessica Vann2 years ago in Poets
In the shadows deep, where my thoughts entwine, A realm unseen, in my human mind. Whispers haunt, both dark and wise, The confusing mix of truth and lies.
By Rick Henry Christopher 2 years ago in Poets
i pay for my cheap dopamine in blurry thoughts and weak knees. it’s actually quite expensive. i forgot people feel things.
By Sara 2 years ago in Poets
Stampeding thoughts running coursing the canyons of my mind. Visuals seen. Objects come and go like Alice falling down a rabbit hole.
By Babs Iverson2 years ago in Poets
The cool of her silky liquid is healing to me, fusing with that deepest part which only she could touch. I tell her how I’ve missed her, how thankful I am to return.
might i juxtapose your new repose spring to life like a wild grove find meaningless meaning in faith's trove while you sink into despair?
The baby teeth rattling in a bedside table, kept for love or superstition. The puckered quilt that held the dream where Mom disappeared.
By Suze Kay2 years ago in Poets
