The willow, an elegy etched in bark, drapes its hair in heavy strands of rain. Each teardrop leaf whispers a name, a chorus of loss echoing through the lane.
By Buzu2 years ago in Poets
Love is in your brains, It enters and never comes out. It stays inside forever, Always think of the partners. It's his brain.
By Joe Bou Khalil2 years ago in Poets
It started on social media (what doesn't, these days?) 'Women dress for Men!" was confidently displayed as a meme or headline, I forget
By Judey Kalchik 2 years ago in Poets
𓇌𓆸𓆙ꡙꡙꡌ Rasam ꡙꡙꡌ 𓆙 𓇌𓆸 A CLEAR SOUP 🥣 FOR THE SOUL As speeches spoken Where sun has awoken Earmarked to be this feasting fest
By Madhu Goteti 2 years ago in Poets
I am writing poems, more poems, about him. It has occured to me in a fluttering panic that my shoddy attempts might be the only poems about him -
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
If flowers need bees, If bees need flowers, Does the love we cultivate nourish our relationships? The world must be that imbalanced,
By Kodah2 years ago in Poets
Blessed are the makers Especially those that shakedown the takers In a world full of fakers They are the ones that capture the vaper
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Poets
That madeleine moment, Dunked in tea. Precious fragments Of the past, Involuntary, unbidden, Brought on by a certain, specific smell,
By Bex Jordan2 years ago in Poets
Wheels touch down; you’re back home, refreshed. Train glides in; you step to the platform. Car pulls in ; you unload from the road trip.
By Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!!2 years ago in Poets
Love is everywhere. In our homes at work, At the park, even in our hearts. Because there, love will live forever. It will stay and never leave,
Novacaine shot into my gums, Blood left in my throat, Smoke on my tongue, And the perfect taste of my cheap high. Fuck I'm hungry for those nights.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
At the tail end of the night Cement’s too gritty on your back And fog blinds the alleys South of Spring Street. So you creak to your feet
By Jean McKinney2 years ago in Poets
