Stories in Poets that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
If you feed the birds in Thailand a whole ecosystem erupts around your home. Bats sleep in rolled leaves of the banana tree.
By River and Celia in Underland 4 months ago in Poets
It surrounds like a warm blanket in the cold of a winter night Clinging onto it provides some comfort Then to awaken as if due to some horrid fright
By Jason Ray Morton 4 months ago in Poets
Death is just a bit too much, isn't it? — Cliché? Overstated? Not the point, is it? — Death weighs heavy on my mind today
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
The stage of life is fraught with strife and danger And we each choose our roles in its great play We don our masks each time we meet a stranger
By Dana Crandell4 months ago in Poets
If I told you your eyes light the crescent moon, if I said it’s your smile that warms the new day, if I swore that your voice makes the nightingale swoon,
By Cathy holmes4 months ago in Poets
She walks, she glides? No, she floats. Spits on the King, then gives bread to the paupers. Refuses the master and shacks up with a slave.
By Anne R.4 months ago in Poets
Melancholic haze of autumn’s ache whispers, Beckons surging waves upon the ocean’s crest Creating a dark mask of telling foreshadowing,
By Cindy Calder4 months ago in Poets
I would rather be a good mother than be a good friend My kids are here eternally but our friendship, that might end. -
By Sara Wilson4 months ago in Poets
An ode - to my great grandparents, Who experienced the world through visual feelings; Raw with emotions not tainted by spoken vibrations.
By Pōlani Monderen 4 months ago in Poets
Demons taunting cries Upon bloody feet now tread We the dead to hell
By JBaz4 months ago in Poets
The human mask of flesh, like clay, is easily molded. As blood transports its iron, the mask often becomes soldered.
By Katherine D. Graham4 months ago in Poets
There’s a lonely cricket outside my window, Its mates now lost to the beckoning fall. Does it sing to the wind or does the wind blow
By C. Rommial Butler4 months ago in Poets
