It starts within her fragile chest a weight that will not let her rest Her heart protests with aching sound yet nowhere safe can now be found
By Abi Rose Travis8 days ago in Poets
In the approach of serious matters, rhyme is a distraction that only clatters hollow, noisy emphasis on endings, even if it causes the middle’s rending.
By Harper Lewis8 days ago in Poets
The vast surroundings breathe beautiful, soft, gasping breaths the air settling gently into the black atmosphere, low clouds rolling, early in pregnancy
By Reece Beckett8 days ago in Poets
The streetlamp’s amber glow returns, steady as a promise, its light a compass for the wandering, the weary, the brave. Together you paint new verses on the city’s skin—
By Forest Green8 days ago in Poets
A house made of steel‑bones and winding alleys, where laughter once rang like a subway’s hymn, you felt the sudden hush of a shuttered storefront—
Cold Quiet Dip Before Sleep Ice waits in the white bath, still as a held breath, A woman lowers herself slowly, testing the silence of water.
By George’s Girl 2026 9 days ago in Poets
I. Darkness is the man who doesn’t know himself. The one who think he stands in the light with a foot planted on the edge
By Dean Traylor9 days ago in Poets
I dream of being held. My head on someone’s chest, listening to their heartbeat. Their hands in my hair, not to escalate, but to comfort and ground me.
By Alicia Melnick 9 days ago in Poets
One random morning After years of dull darkness I am worth it now.
By Susan Fourtané 9 days ago in Poets
I carry my trauma quietly. Not like a flag. Not like a war drum. It lives in the corners of my mind, where sunlight never reaches.
By Shoaib Afridi9 days ago in Poets
We awaken to a surveillance state being constructed before our very eyes, our faces and posts and lives gathered into 'lovely little databases,'
By David Muñoz9 days ago in Poets
Starting the day off right underlying the clouds passing by noticing the way, it brightens subjects all around harkening the birds an others awake
By Mark Graham9 days ago in Poets
