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Mariah
My younger self would
love that I watch the movies
she did too, back then.
Twilight on rainy days, unashamed.
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Rain
Why is keeping up with people so difficult
Why is keeping up with people
Why is keeping up
Why
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renseksderf
Éclair My Heart

Fill me up with custard’s glow,  
soft as secrets whispered low.  
Chocolate coat our midnight vows,  
each bite a bow that time allows.  

Glossy tease of vanilla sighs—  
declare your love in pastry cries.





.
....bow instead of bough, so the spelling hints at its pronouncing.
Abandoné las sombras,
las espesas paredes,
los ruidos familiares,
la amistad de los libros,
el tabaco, las plumas,
los secos cielorrasos;
para salir volando,
desesperadamente.

Abajo: en la penumbra,
las amargas cornisas,
las calles desoladas,
los faroles sonámbulos,
las muertas chimeneas,
los rumores cansados;
pero seguí volando,
desesperadamente.

Ya todo era silencio,
simuladas catástrofes,
grandes charcos de sombra,
aguaceros, relámpagos,
vagabundos islotes
de inestables riberas;
pero seguí volando,
desesperadamente.

Un resplandor desnudo,
una luz calcinante
se interpuso en mi ruta,
me fascinó de muerte,
pero logré evadirme
de su letal influjo,
para seguir volando,
desesperadamente.

Todavía el destino
de mundos fenecidos,
desorientó mi vuelo
-de sideral constancia-
con sus vanas parábolas
y sus aureolas falsas;
pero seguí volando,
desesperadamente.

Me oprimía lo fluido,
la limpidez maciza,
el vacío escarchado,
la inaudible distancia,
la oquedad insonora,
el reposo asfixiante;
pero seguía volando,
desesperadamente.

Ya no existía nada,
la nada estaba ausente;
ni oscuridad, ni lumbre,
-ni unas manos celestes-
ni vida, ni destino,
ni misterio, ni muerte;
pero seguía volando,
desesperadamente.
Fría es la noche y pura.

La luna, limpia, albea
oblicuamente la pared.

                                Oscura
y redonda, la salvia, que menea
sus cálices mojados de relente,
embriaga la paz.

                                La estrella llora,
virando hacia el poniente,
verde temblor sobre la sola acacia...

Se oye jirar el mundo...

                                Y en la hora
clara y llena de gracia,
lo que es humilde tiene
una belleza eterna: el descansado y blando
rucio que llama, en alto bando,
a un hermano; la brisa distraída
de la pobre ribera conocida;
el tardo grillo; el gallo alerta
que, un momento, despierta
las rosas con su voz que quiebra albores
por los llanos del alba...

                                Belén viene
a todos los corrales...

Casi incoloros, los colores
parecen de cristales...
let
let
the geese
go short shadow south

let
the leaves
release into wreckage

let
the light
gloam red orange

let
a pulse
flutter silent
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cay
her hair was dark , like the night
Of cloudless skies and starry nights;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Met her eyes and stared right through;
i saw what she wanted
so i let her go, to cry to the heavens above
to Which heaven day denies.
i havent slept but i just felt melodramatic so-
really badly written and ill like fix it someday
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Blue Sapphire
My life was
an open book.
You just forgot
to read a few chapters.
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Oceara Miedema
Help me through, magic blue.
Help me through.
The day.
The day.
Oceans’ blue.
Oceans’ grey.
Help me.
Save me.
Let me be swimming.
In you.
To you.
A new beginning.
Start new.
Don’t let me hear a single noise.
Just your waves, a mermaids’ voice.
But no more banging sound.
Let me whirl and swirl, let me go.
Round and round.
To places I don’t know.
But seen only in dreams and heard only in whispers and voices of the sea.
Let me be that creature, let me be sparkly. ✨
21-06-25
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Rubyredheart
Downhill spiral
Thoughts in mire roll
A mess
I confess
Obsess
Over the next
Is the ache
from a mistake?
Because I take?
or just the flu?
I’m missing you!
There’s no right
Submit? or fight?
Morning to night
Just wasting time
Asphyxiated mime
Broken rhyme
it all is wrong
an off-key song
Absence prolong
What this means?
splitting seams
Shattered dreams
it’s simple, plain
You’re on the brain
Through joy and pain
Time misses you
As I do, too
Originally published as “10:44” 13th Apr 2022 | Edited 26th Jun 2023 | edited July 23, 2025
My story may have closed a door,
But still I have days to roar,
To rebuild and rise once more,
With zeal in my heart, and a story to explore.

My blood runs hot, with passion's fire,
The past may be gone, but the future's desire,
To make history with every stride,
And let my spirit be my guide.

With renewed energy, I take my stand,
And confess my truth, hand in hand,
With every step, a new path's laid,
And my story unfolds, in a brighter shade.
#readers
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Raghu Menon
Looking back
on our past years
into the little steps that
we traversed as kids

All stories started like
"Once upon a time"

But did we ever think
that
Our past glory also
would be like that
of story told to our kids
or our grand kids
as that of a

Once upon a time
story?
Kids to parents to grand parents?
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ap0calyps3
us poets, often gaze the stars wishing for them to always love the moon.
thanking the sun, to kiss the sunflowers, what silly little loons
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Dency
If you must be gone
Then come to me
In almosts
Almost seen
Almost heard
Almost real

Enough
To make me hope
Bt never
Enough to stay.
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Lynn Stillman
Decisions are made,
in dark alleys and back halls.
Best to watch your back.
La Reina, al son de fúlgidos clarines vibradores,
desnuda, y en el lomo de un gran tigre tendida,
ve, con la Orgía inmensa de que ella va seguida,
el avance de Baco, del mar a los rumores.

y el monstruo, bajo el peso real, entre fulgores
de sol radiante, huella la playa florecida;
y al roce de la mano que conduce la brida,
muerde, de amor rugiendo, de la brida las flores.

Sueltos sobre la espalda los dorados cabellos,
uvas negras  y de ámbar enlazadas en ellos,
la Esposa no oye entonces el rugido estridente.

y ebria al fin de ambrosía su boca, y anhelante,
y olvidando sus gritos hacia el infiel amante,
ríe al próximo beso del Domador de Oriente.
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Sorelle
Shallow end of a pond
Spinning slowly
Another body and I'm sorry
It's the most gut-wrenching
Sad
Raw
Depressing
Cliché
Cliché
Cliché
It's the most gut-wrenching time
Of the year
It's the blood in the air
Getting colder
And I've fallen
And I'm calling
It's the most gut-wrenching
Sad
Raw
Depressing
Cliché
Cliché
Cliché
It's the most gut-wrenching time
Of the year
A tangle of thoughts pulling in different directions,
honest in their disorder.
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M Vogel
The Battleground of Light, Made Flesh

Suffering down..
not as punishment,
but as Love.

Breath by breath,
atom by atom,
A bend of  the will
into the greater design:

to let even the exhale
carry what is real.


Each particle stripped bare,
each trembling fragment
infused with the weight of Light
earned not through ease,
but through the slow, necessary
suffering of self

into Substance.

And so it reaches her..
not through seduction,
or noise,
but the quietest form of intimacy:

truth, refined enough
to be airborne.


She breathes..
and through the quiet architecture
of lungs,
through bronchi,
alveoli,

the smallest fragments of me
become more than theory.

But it is not just me
it is what I have chosen to become:
stripped down,
atomized,
each particle carrying both Light
  and Dark,
as they always have.

Though, here
intent speaks louder than inheritance.

And accountability tips the scale.

Through the capillaries,
the bloodstream takes them..
particles laced not with seduction,
but with substance;
volition woven into their shape,
truth mingling with oxygen,

carrying not  empty poetry,
but tangible presence.

And the skin..
her beautiful, breathing boundary;
it listens too.

Pores opening like shy mouths,
taking in what even sunlight cannot hide:

   --the warmth of love,
   made molecular,
   made undeniable.


It slips through,
across her beautiful hips,
up the soft ***** of her thighs,
along the quiet pathways
where nerves whisper,
where fear once lived.

And still..
our skin has never touched.
Our beautiful oils,
those quiet, fragrant signatures
of separate bodies,
have never had the chance to blend.
There is no mingling of surface,
no friction of palms or lips.

Yet still—
I am within her
as  she
Breathes    me    in.

Love,

when chosen..
when carried through the smallest particle,
becomes the most intimate trespass--
not of skin,
but of substance.

And inside her,
where the battle rages unseen,
the false portraits dissolve..
the counterfeit reflections
painted by fear,
by old wounds,

by those who mistake poetry for proof.

Here
there is no mimicry.
Only metabolized truth.

Only the slow, quiet conquering
of darkness--
cell by cell,

choice by choice.

This is not seduction.
This is not the shallow hush
of borrowed words.
This is Light..
accountable,
chosen,
fought for;

interlaced within her very bloodstream;

her warmth,
  her breath.

And though no oils ever blended,
though the ache of touch
remains untouched,
what entered her did not stay foreign.
The body, wise and unwilling to harbor illusion,
took what was true--

what carried intent and Light
and made it her own

..   ..   ..   ..  

Mitochondria hum..
tiny engines in the blood’s dark river;
taking each atom,
each trembling particle,
and rewriting the story within.
From raw material,
she builds warmth.
From fractured fragments,
she crafts clarity;
The light no longer arrives—
it begins to rise from within.


And the space once reserved
for mingled oils,
for skin-on-skin confession,
becomes something greater:
a fusion untouched by friction,
unfading,

   unmistakably Real.

This is no whispered counterfeit.
No shallow poem dressed in longing.
This is breath earned through fire.
This is love refined to its smallest form,
offered whole,
received wholly,

and written quietly

into every hidden corner
of her being.

Beautiful Angel,

Breathe   Me   In
https://youtu.be/eBG7P-K-r1Y?si=GVc6MeOpOSBV6j_m
Life is like a book
Every day a page,
Every month a chapter,
Every year a new series.
Not a poem
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Nat Lipstadt
Do not stand
          By my grave, and weep.
     I am not there,
          I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
     Do not stand
          By my grave, and cry—
     I am not there,
          I did not die.
— Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep
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Renee C
Fever with criminal agency
Baldly paws at suggestible woods
Cursed by the rain’s contingency
Patina crawls south of crabbed roots

Bean-coiled muscle exposed as barely
Adequate plugs in a shallow basin
Beach-boiled slugs dilate and quiver
For summer bathing fairly by the river
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Facelezz
Let the Heartbreak Wash over you like a Wave
At first you You ignore it, Act Real Brave
But now you began to Sweat
As it Drowns you in Sorrows and Regret
It won't let you Be or Forget
As you try to stay Calm and Catch your Breath
Holding onto the Past is a Mess
It just leaves you Tired and in Distress
Now your Sinking in the Depths
Ulric, nul oeil des mers n'a mesuré l'abîme,
Ni les hérons plongeurs, ni les vieux matelots.
Le soleil vient briser ses rayons sur leur cime,
Comme un soldat vaincu brise ses javelots.

Ainsi, nul oeil, Ulric, n'a pénétré les ondes
De tes douleurs sans borne, ange du ciel tombé.
Tu portes dans ta tête et dans ton coeur deux mondes,
Quand le soir, près de moi, tu vas triste et courbé.

Mais laisse-moi du moins regarder dans ton âme,
Comme un enfant craintif se penche sur les eaux ;
Toi si plein, front pâli sous des baisers de femme,
Moi si jeune, enviant ta blessure et tes maux.
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Pavel Rup
Что такое власть?
Она от Бога?
Хрупок Мир и хрупок человек!
Сквозь века идёт войны дорога —
Деньгам поклоняется Гобсек.

Мир живёт невидимым законом...
В «демократию» одели белый свет!
Короля прославили миньоны —
Получили свой иммунитет.

Мир так связан!
Мир так раскалолся!
Архитектор план не выдаёт —
Ветер перемен по «правилам» прошёлся...
В будущем предьявлен будет счёт!

Неизбежность тяжестью придавит —
Неизбежность правит этот бал.
Время строго! Время не лукавит.
Старый мир со стоном исчезал!

Только всё так связано деньгами!
Шарик наш совсем уж не большой —
Цены нефти в спешке заскакали...
Рынок мировой гудит трубой.

Парадокс текущего момента —
Невозможна Страшная война!
Капиталы любят сохраненье...
Тем щитом природа спасена!

Время перемелет всё печали —
Трудно жить в эпоху перемен.
Люди от волнения устали!
Что придёт текущему взамен?

                            26 июня 2025
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paul sheridan
“I’ve had enough,” you
said, pushing away your plate,
but looking at me     ..
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Irelyn Thorne
We are nonbelievers
Our skin sparkles in that light
We glow from past mistakes
And trauma fuels our fight

Never speak of pain
Or wear a wound on our face
We're better than that, mature
Mentality-a constant race

Emotions are a betrayal
Hints of suffering in our eyes
Pain dusted across our face
Lives being woven through lies

I am a nonbeliever
And with that, I stand tall
But a part of me decays
Every time I see another angel fall
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Brooklyn
I’m being watched by everyone,
and everything.
But still I’m alone.
Left in the dark,
being watched by the monster that is me.
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Stardust
My comfort zone smiles sweetly, like cheese in a mousetrap - harmless, until it snaps.
Si tu ne m'aimais pas, dis-moi, fille insensée,
Que balbutiais-tu dans ces fatales nuits ?
Exerçais-tu ta langue à railler ta pensée ?
Que voulaient donc ces pleurs, cette gorge oppressée,
Ces sanglots et ces cris ?

Ah ! si le plaisir seul t'arrachait ces tendresses,
Si ce n'était que lui qu'en triste moment
Sur mes lèvres en feu tu couvrais de caresses
Comme un unique amant ;

Si l'esprit et les sens, les baisers et les larmes,
Se tiennent par la main de ta bouche à ton cœur,
Et s'il te faut ainsi, pour y trouver des charmes,
Sur l'autel du plaisir profaner le bonheur :

Ah ! Laurette ! ah ! Laurette, idole de ma vie,
Si le sombre démon de tes nuits d'insomnie
Sans ce masque de feu ne saurait faire un pas,
Pourquoi l'évoquais-tu, si tu ne m'aimais pas ?
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Maddy
Soulful
Searching
Word Pioneers
Ever creating
Crafting
Originality beyond compare
Members that have a depth and imaginations others wish for
Tney are the most special group I have ever encountered
Our Poets
Proud to be with you
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Mary Huxley
It’s not the heartbreak that screams.
It’s the silence that follows.
The way someone becomes a stranger
while their memories still live in your chest.
How they laugh with others the way they used to with you—
and you pretend it doesn’t sting.
You act okay.
You smile.
But inside, you're mourning someone who’s still alive,
just no longer yours.
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Mel Zalewsky
No temo a la soledad del desierto,  
ese vasto espejo donde el eco  
se devuelve intacto,  
sin máscaras.  

No temo al amor ausente,  
a ese fantasma  
que otros persiguen  
con redes de palabras huecas.  

Mis ojos no retroceden  
ante sonrisas apagadas,  
esas que fueron faros  
y ahora son luciérnagas muertas  
en frascos de nostalgia.  

Las supernovas no me asustan.  
Yo mismo fui polvo de estrellas,  
resto de un Big Bang  
que aún resuena  
en mis costillas.  

Nunca regalé piropos  
como monedas falsas.  
Respeté los jardines ajenos,  
aún cuando mis manos  
se secaban  
por falta de rocío.  

Así aprendí a caminar:  
mirando primero la tierra,  
luego las siluetas,  
por si acaso  
alguna sombra  
quisiera ser mi dueña.  

Los ojos azules no me cazaron,  
ni el cabello café  
que huele a promesas,  
ni esas manos  
—suaves jaulas—  
que solo buscaban  
aprisionar  
lo que el viento  
se llevaría.  

Sigo esperando el barco  
que no tema anclar  
cuando las nubes  
se vuelvan puñales.  
La que prefiera mis olas,  
aun las más bravas,  
a los mares tranquilos  
donde solo flotan  
corazones de plástico.  

Mientras, navego  
en aguas prestadas,  
náufrago de mí mismo,  
mordiendo sal  
y escupiendo versos.  

Las estrellas,  
esas cobardes hermosas,  
huyen del amanecer.  
Yo no.  
Me quedo  
a ver cómo la luz  
me desnuda  
sin piedad.  

Mel Zalewsky.
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Mélissa
Through winters I long
For summers to come
And then they come
And I hate them
I'm always escaping
Never a part of the world
Through daytime I long
For the night's veil to fall
But it falls on me
Heavy like a rope net
I'm always waiting
Life always on hold
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Amethyste
I miss you
But I will not let you ruin me again.
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alia
I wear my grin like porcelain—
polished, perfect,
cracked beneath.

They see the shine,
not the spiderwebs
that threaten to split me clean.

I laugh on cue,
walk the line,
but every step feels like a dare—
will I break,
or bend again?

No one notices the hairline fault.
They only see
a masterpiece
that never asked
to be displayed.

But here’s the twist
they’ll never know:
I dropped the real me
years ago.
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Skyla GM
Disruptive
They called me—
Disruptive
Me
Disruptive
Disruptive
Disruptive
Disruptive
Dis­ruptive
Disruptive
Disruptive

Make it a badge.
Disruptive
I’ll wear it
on the collar
of my blue button-up shirt.

Disruptive
And everyone can see—
Disruptive
Me
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Neal Burns
The nightingales still sing
over Orpheus' grave
Bending stone with sound
Sculpting cloud and chemtrail
in the likeness of Assange

A mirror universe
these threads vibrate
connecting other worlds
Ouroborus
the snake swallowing its tail
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Robin Edwards
The night
scattered its stars
across an asphalt sky.
We, you and I, stood
at the edge
of the precipice
watching.
Behind us,
stood the powers that be
counting down from ten.
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1DNA
A programmed robot;
Designed to be loved by all,
Never to love at all.
I feel so mean.

Quite the contrast huh.
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