Stories in Poets that youโll love, handpicked by our team.
Step One: Wear quiet like perfume. Not too much- Just enough to make them wonder If you were ever really loud at all. Step Two:
By The Omnichromiter6 months ago in Poets
Some words in my head are better unsaid than voiced for the world to hear some thoughts churn around but never find sound
By ๐๐๐2 months ago in Poets
Pleasures Treasures Lies Spies Who will prevail Or fail Let the Rain Come Down. Juggling, like a clown.
By Babs Iverson6 months ago in Poets
I see your pain; Though it isn't something I expected, as I sit here in tears, Watching you shake and cry, It hurts because you don't always see your pain,
By Carol Ann Townend6 months ago in Poets
First, turn off that infernal phone. Bleep, bloop, bleep-blop, off. Delete your social media. Or mute it. You donโt need it for a while.
By Meredith Harmon6 months ago in Poets
Gather your kids, baby, pull out that phone It's time for an update. Check your makeup, highlight those cheekbones Your audience awaits.
By Kenny Penn6 months ago in Poets
I remember a time when we danced until dawn peeked shyly above the distant sky inquisitively...the approaching morning eavesdropped upon what shadows reveal when it tiptoes in
By Antoni De'Leon6 months ago in Poets
At the end of each day Baby Nehemiah makes me feel: (N)urturing (E)dified (H)opeful (E)nergetic (M)otivated (I)nspired
By Tiffany Gordon6 months ago in Poets
You told me I was too much. So I learned to shrink. Folded myself down like a letter never sent. Quieted the parts of me
By Oula M.J. Michaels6 months ago in Poets
At Duke Hospital, they wired me up like a broken marionetteโ electrodes blooming across my limbs, silver petals designed to catch
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
I am fundamentally fictional --- a legend passed down day to day. Hero to none, villain to many, afterthought to most.
By Lizzy Rose6 months ago in Poets
I once wished you knew, but I'm glad that wish never came true... this truth I hide is the very same I feel can never tell youโ
By Josh Morgan6 months ago in Poets
