on the 5th, we bought red mums on the 9th, we had to put our cat down on the 9th, at some pier wind gusting hair in my face i wrote this and hoped the wind would take away some of the pain:
By Alexandria Stanwyck4 months ago in Poets
The leaves are falling The trees are disappearing What should I do now? It is dreams pressing on my head What remains now?
By ahmedibrahem4 months ago in Poets
When all the stars forget to burn, and night forgets her borrowed name, the last lantern will still return— its glow the heart of every flame.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 months ago in Poets
At dusk, I walk the orchard rows— the air still sweet with apple rain. The trees breathe stories no one knows, their roots remembering his name.
I set a lantern on the stream, its flame a single, trembling word. The river answered like a dream— a hymn too soft to be unheard.
Preface The drawing of Jesus hung in the parish hall of the Episcopal church I attended as a child from the early 1970’s until it closed its doors 30 years later.
By JM Hess | One Sojourner4 months ago in Poets
In the Shadow of the West, where mountains remember the names of the dead and stars carry their voices across the sea, I stood graveside.
I hear them in the hush between, where wind and wonder meet. Their echoes thread through roots unseen, through rhythm, rain, and wheat.
Sad is this time of the demise of intellect, They don’t have to be correct, Their blathering oft ill-conceived. They only need to be believed.
By Thomas Durbin4 months ago in Poets
I’m miserable for adventure There’s lines that stain my brain Like every nation They exist only in our imagination They separate us from our true nature
By Atomic Historian4 months ago in Poets
when the lone wail of the train speaks to me my grief-stricken heart still pains to abide, oh me, oh my, while yet I long for thee.
By John Cox4 months ago in Poets
When the night grows silent and deep, And life's heavy burdens softly fade, Old memories begin to bloom again, In the garden where nostalgia is made.
By Shazzed Hossain Shajal4 months ago in Poets
