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Stories in Poets that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.

Scattered Thoughts, Like Tears
Life twists and turns, and sometimes I just want to burn a path sideways through it all, scorch the wilderness,
By C. Rommial Butler11 months ago in Poets
Calling
-*- It was not that long ago, when I heard your chanting voice; I was back then on a place known as "pain in overflow".
By Alex Torres11 months ago in Poets
What I Want
I guess today is one of those feelings One of those annoying thoughts that crosses my mind And sits there just staring back at me.
By Alisha Wilkins ✒️🦋🖋️11 months ago in Poets
Tsundoku
Whispers Names and places Heroes and villains Conflicts whisper in my ear A thousand worlds lie waiting near Contained in a private forest
By Alexander McEvoy11 months ago in Poets
Toilet Seats.
I don’t have to be here. Not really. Not like before, when the walls were the only arms that ever held me, when the lock on the door
By Marvelous Michael11 months ago in Poets
Numb
Dreams can become nightmares, the numbing feeling of drowning in your sleep, then you realize you're awake. My friends all belong in the shadows now,
By Angel Adagio11 months ago in Poets
Burn
You close in like darkness around candlelight. You suck up my oxygen until you see me flicker. Watch me sweat. But you can't put me out... not yet.
By Mezmur4 months ago in Poets
Printed in INK (Cinquain #2)
When the year is old and the day Is young, When the wake of spring, brings complacent men, And the stars come out when the darkness swung
By Caitlin Charlton11 months ago in Poets
Endangered Species
my future is an endangered species. the sky black woman song sung straight from the center of tornados spun by the hatred of others who see me, we
By R.C. Taylor11 months ago in Poets
everything, all at once
perhaps to be human is to fail to crack open like an egg, to ruin and foil, to make mistakes to try and try until your bones ache with it
By angela hepworth11 months ago in Poets
Firm Ground
Home, warm, only with you Do I dare to turn the heating on Build me a shelter of Norwegian wood When I hide from the world,
By Violet P. Davies11 months ago in Poets
The Merella Papers
Note: this poem was written about a very personal moment in my life. I met my half-sister when I was living and working in Montréal as a grad student. I saw her photograph when I was a teenager, but it was many years before we met. And I wrote this as a way to understand my emotions and feelings about chance, love and how life can throw you curves you never expect.
By Kendall Defoe 11 months ago in Poets