Without our fire, I'd omit my own name. I cannot accept their tombstone chair. I refuse to be stone or forget our old flame.
By A. S. Lawrence2 months ago in Poets
the first bite is heaven, enticing the ego mutating the self with a plastic crown how does one deal when truth is zero? .
By Lamar Wiggins2 months ago in Poets
I will never cease to plead For you to take another way. Why do you never heed? ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Could you not just let me lead?
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 months ago in Poets
I wish that I had gone along with you And crossed the river, red with evening light. (I could have saved you if I’d been there too.)
By Jessica Dowding2 months ago in Poets
I miss the longing of your touch like a thirst I miss the deepness of your voice on my lips during passion I need the heat of your skin on my body like a hunger
By Tabitha Hinkley2 months ago in Poets
Pining Season: A Villanelle Alone at night, I wake & reach for you. Whate’er shall I do if you don’t want me? A too brief kiss, you burned before you flew.
By Rebbekah Vega Romero2 months ago in Poets
My family has a boat upon the lake I’m sure they mean me no harm nor ill will. See how the water becomes a moonwake.
By Mackenzie Davis2 months ago in Poets
Echo for Narcissus: A Villanelle Can love be wrong that sets your soul alight? Pale reflection froze you in the mirror:
From time to time I see the dream of dreams: Dream gifts me with a child that won’t be mine. From time to time, or only so it seems.
By Salomé Saffiri2 months ago in Poets
Tip-toe, tip-toe, sleepwalking through the fire The touch I know well, flame’s sweet caress “Wake up!” She cries, draped across the pyre
By DB Maddox2 months ago in Poets
A crow’s shadow illuminated the moon, Flying past the space above the trees - Leaving me where I couldn’t see. The night held still, playing an altered tune.
By Kathy Tsoukalas2 months ago in Poets
Some things should not be seen only to look away My eyes are on the screen . Children wail and neighbors scream watching loved ones dragged away
