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
By Sonia Heidi Unruh2 months ago in Poets
You see the whole world from the backseat Don’t draw attention or make a sound If you behave they give you a treat - Keep your clothes clean and neat
By Judey Kalchik 2 months ago in Poets
I don’t want to be read—I want to be seen. Still I refresh the numbers, watch them feed. Yet every night I bow before the screen.
By Richard Patrick Gage2 months ago in Poets
Oh, how the past is haunting I’m crawling back, while looking forward My, how the future is daunting • Every memory, lesson, emotion is prompting
By megantevasin2 months ago in Poets
I waited for you in the hall, You said you wouldn’t be late, So I kept listening for your call. But hours passed with nothing at all—
By S Sherie Wilson2 months ago in Poets
I waited for you in the hall, You said that you’d be there. So now I wait for you to call. But still not heard from you at all.
To whom does the lone, left-behind loon call? His companions made for sun past the lake - Upon empty shores does his wraith song fall.
By Gabriel Huizenga2 months ago in Poets
My mother regretted the way I was made, she tried to love me with a measured grace, but I always saw the shadow of what she weighed.
By angela mckendrick2 months ago in Poets
Each night the stars return, but not your face, The silence pools where laughter used to be. I wander hallways time cannot erase.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
I regret not fighting hard enough for her, she died young, and I kept getting older, now I live in the memory of her. We carved a blood oath, childish but sure,
I have known nothing but this Its' projections manipulate my vision A companion that lives to reminisce - It is a perpetual deafening, convulsing hiss
By Jada Ferguson2 months ago in Poets
You're ugly, stunted, dull as well, Tight fisted and meagre hearted. You are in-el-e-gant as hell. ~ There is a yearning you can't quell,
By Hannah Moore2 months ago in Poets
