Most recently published stories in Poets.
The streets remember your absence, though no one speaks your name aloud. Cobblestones shimmer with the memory of footsteps that no longer fall,
By Algieba2 days ago in Poets
You keep Returning Always coming back the way a shadow lengthens - slowly...gradually, but with the confidence of something
By Antoni De'Leon2 days ago in Poets
Waiting for a winner, On tenterhooks, I'm pacing. Predicting the chances, Would I be the one? I'm asking. So many chances squandered,
By Moon Desert2 days ago in Poets
‘Wake up sir. Time for your sonic shower.” “Go away Rosie,” I muttered with a glower. “Curtains translucent,” her tinny reply.
By Andrew C McDonald2 days ago in Poets
You hold me where the water turns Black around the knees— not the crash, not the crest, but just underneath. Where every step is stolen ground,
By SUEDE the poet2 days ago in Poets
Listen and you will hear it 'Neath the howling winter wind That ever-fleeting secret Found just when faith is thinned -
By Ian Read2 days ago in Poets
Verse 1 He was an angry young man aiming fury at a typewriter Pouring everything his heart felt onto the keys Becoming the voice of a restless generation
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 days ago in Poets
They carved her name into stone And marked the date Then pointed the way While lights shattered across the sky And the thunder shook the town
By Schmalz2 days ago in Poets
It doesn’t knock. It never learned how— just slips in through the quiet seam between one thought and the next, like a draft you only notice
We are living in a world of endless competition, Between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, Where the ocean’s gold feeds our ambition,
By Rizik Issufo2 days ago in Poets
***** Excerpt adapted from a famous "Jamaican" poet (you should know her - you should) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By 365poetry2 days ago in Poets
What, rules? There are no rules! Rhythm, meter, syllabic constriction- A fig at you all! Hah! Rhyme, time, slime, arginine!
By Meredith Harmon2 days ago in Poets
