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Poets Media isolates the most poignant, powerful, and exquisitely composed verses and quotes in the universal poetry canon.

The Field Where Daffodils Wait for Her
The Field Where Daffodils Wait for Her They bloom where morning softly sighs, Beneath the pale and tender skies, A golden sea in winds that stir—
By Ali Asad Ullah9 months ago in Poets
Watching Boys Playing In Red Lights
There's no ball left to kick Just fingers streaming against the wind but voices course through the air Petals are streaming through the outside making everything clear
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle9 months ago in Poets
When Life Blocks Your Words, Punch Back with Poetry
Have you ever felt like life just steals your creativity? That’s been me lately. Bills stacking up, endless work calls, family stuff, and somehow, my brain just… shuts down. The words I used to love pouring out now feel stuck, like they’re trapped behind an invisible wall.
By Shafi Ullah Darwesh9 months ago in Poets
Transcorporeal
Electric rocks hallucinating in vain To further the destruction of the primate brain The veils of reality being burned To turn the world into a paradise of false profits
By Atomic Historian9 months ago in Poets
The Sound of the Swing
The Sound of the Swing The garden had long fallen silent. Once, it was a kingdom of chaos: shrieks of laughter, stomping feet, and the creak-creak of the wooden swing that hung from the old guava tree. Now, only the rustling of wind through dry leaves remained, whispering secrets to no one in particular.
By Shehzad Khan10 months ago in Poets
the way i climbed
I was handed the map folded wrong, Told to run before I knew how to fall, Shoes too tight, dreams stitched uneven. No one warned me the stairs would wobble—
By Muhammad Abdullah10 months ago in Poets
The Weight of My Tongue
there’s a storm that lives right behind my teeth not loud, not always but it waits i try to hush it with tea and silence with books and breathing but it don’t always listen
By Muhammad Abdullah10 months ago in Poets
You Are The Villain Fairytales Warned About
You believe you found the catch, easy to say as someone who trapped them in a fantasy. Love bombing, kind words, and a pocket full of flaunted cash
By Angel Adagio10 months ago in Poets
I’m trying to bite my tongue
Sometimes I get so angry that I wish I could make a shit ton of money the kind of money you say you’ll make one day I actually don’t care about money you know this but you used those green jackals against me like an alligator grinning wildly
By Melissa Ingoldsby10 months ago in Poets
The crown of Dreams
Beneath the sky where dreams took flight, Lived Princess Muse, a guiding light. Beneath the sky where dreams took flight,
By Musulyn M (MUSE)10 months ago in Poets
Love like the Dew. AI-Generated.
Shuvo was a simple person and stayed in a small village Monpura. His daily life was spent in the silent companionship of nature and the virgin fields and the soft breezes which rustled along. He had never worried too much about love, it has always been far away, something belonging to other people.
By Md Peyel Hassan10 months ago in Poets
Missed Connections
1) Starbucks; Newport Beach, CA: Your hair was too blond, your tan too bronze, your teeth too white, and your tits too big. You spoke in infantile squeaks, and ended sentences, both declarative and interrogative alike, with verbal curtsies. You sent your order back thrice. I was the hairy-chested, gin-blossomed Palm Beach prick in the salmon polo shouting at the mousey 16YO cashier over sold-out scones. I'm a moneyed malignant narcissist in the market for a purely transactional relationship. I pronounce “w” words with an “h” preface. I drive my Tesla like I just left a 3-martini lunch, which is often the case. Of course, “TRUMP” bumper stickers adorn it. Stick around, you’re sure to see a COP kick my ass when I try to impose my “master of the universe” delusion upon him as he's cuffing me for DUI.
By Chris Z10 months ago in Poets