Most recently published stories in Poets.
zillions of redbuds standing quietly beneath them nothing but blessings. Redbuds are blooming now. What a gorgeous sight. Ephemeral, so all the more beautiful.
By Seema Patel16 minutes ago in Poets
I have no inheritance from my parents’ side, not from my in-laws’, not much anyway, no straight-forward, with many claimers.
Mummy, why does my water always taste salty? We aren’t sea creatures We don’t live in the saline sea Playing with the fishes
By abby19 minutes ago in Poets
A white stripe wraps a r o u n d the flat sphere long brim, eyeless It’s the rising moon peeking on one midnight blue evening
By Michele Nampalli38 minutes ago in Poets
There was a girl who was a Maguire— a better life she tried to conspire. She lamented her fate, spewed lots of hate, And of her everyone grew tired.
By Harper Lewisabout an hour ago in Poets
Tired I’m so tired of seeing people struggle in this world we’re all living in today, The elderly they work all those years and don’t get the care they need,
By Jennifer lindquistabout an hour ago in Poets
Say It Plainly Challenge - Write a poem that states its central concern directly without metaphor, indirection, or symbolic substitution.
By Denise E Lindquistabout an hour ago in Poets
Science helps us all: See the world differently, Grow with new info
By Gabriel Shamesabout 2 hours ago in Poets
the path fueled by desire forged by deceit overwrought by obligation acquired by a diamond that secured a promise
By Greer Monroeabout 2 hours ago in Poets
imagine feeling everything pangs of infinite gnostic hunger before, after, during learning and knowing em0ti0ns at a b0iling p0int
By ⸘jason alan‽about 3 hours ago in Poets
I try to choose my words carefully because I want you to understand me to know exactly what I mean. Yet so often you react
By Tina D. Lopezabout 3 hours ago in Poets
I was forty-four years old and I thought I was just tired. I was in heart failure. They opened my chest. Triple bypass.
By Leslie L. Stevens Writer | Marfa, Texasabout 3 hours ago in Poets
