One flame burning strong, A point of light among snow - Can it keep its warmth?
By Gabriel Shames3 months ago in Poets
BIRDS HAVE TO DIE SINGING ANYway, I have nothing but singing to share 🎶 out-of-clay body spirit soar over the salty eye waters
By Diana3 months ago in Poets
Feel this fire space. We won’t let this fire waste Near this fireplace. Check out my first book Melanin Memoirs out now on Amazon and Kindle
By Joe Patterson3 months ago in Poets
When I was about 7 or 8, I planted a tree on a land that’s not mine. It was part of a program, or perhaps, just a holiday inspired by colonization
By Oneg In The Arctic3 months ago in Poets
I am standing on the shoulders of the faith of mighty men, Those who stood their ground for over 2000 years. My faith is an ancient one; for God is the Ancient of Days.
By Idara Oghogho 3 months ago in Poets
He did not call us to be sugar on the tongue, To melt into the moment, To sweeten every room until truth dissolved. Sugar wins smiles,
By Hannah Lambert3 months ago in Poets
People swear change arrives in January, wrapped in fresh calendars and clean promises, in vision boards pinned with borrowed dreams,
Introduction This is my eighty-eighth piece inspired by Angie Livingstone's magnificent artwork. This is An Ekphrastic Terza Rima.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 months ago in Poets
Memories of you, The ones where you were smiling, Get me through the cold.
By Luke Haymons3 months ago in Poets
The bell goes off, as I walk through the hall - I had to stop, and see the people moving around, this fall. As they move about their lives, and wisp through the hall
By Frankly Carter Appleseed3 months ago in Poets
From deep primeval winter, roused from a stubborn sorcery of stone and this cemetery of long-foresaken clay, -- the thawing rain, which blesses the barren
By Sean Byers3 months ago in Poets
They tell us the veil was thick— not linen you could fold at night, not fabric that stirred when men passed by, but woven dense with warning,
