Challenge: ‘Write an acrostic poem using the word 'SILENCE.’ Note: You can read my poem as ‘stand alone.’ However, the two interlinked poems are ‘Silence 1: Black’ and ‘Silence 2: Life.’
By Pauline Fountain2 years ago in Poets
pick the flecks of my bones from the ashes that's all that's left of me for you now you turned green because I found sunlight
By Ellie Hoovs2 years ago in Poets
You look at me askance As we dance To the limerence in each other’s eyes Sometimes I see what’s on your mind But I promise, there’s no lies
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Poets
I can tell you've been drinking, cause your words are brass tacks, you try to press them in to me. because you're caught in a spiral
Murdr'ing minister, man has no milk, let alone one of kindness to Amend the agony that attends the crevice under my rib cage where a raven's croaked chastisement replaces dove's song, where serpent deflowers
By Wen Xiaosheng2 years ago in Poets
Scarred earth cradles the bones of forgotten generations, Mothers with empty arms still feel the weight of the lost.
By Ravi D2 years ago in Poets
i can't slow down no... i can't let them catch up‐ each and every enemy they chase after me‐ from daybreak to nightfall,
By Josh Morgan2 years ago in Poets
behind the scenes a script written in such a fashion that it's true meaning is hardly seen a collection of books in such a vicious assortment
stillness is the moment between two songs on the radio, struggling for reception. into a void I scream for an escape from the liminal space, trapping me and my stifled steps trudging the carpeted floor.
By Dark Constellations2 years ago in Poets
She rather hides in the lies she once told Immaculate, oh how divine she is, so perfect, so self-controlled Left to her struggles yet no one knows
By Jess S2 years ago in Poets
Everyone I have ever loved has broke me
Softness sounds of stillness when serenity speaks a shadowed Symphony Inaudible introspective inhales to immerse infinity's within the Inner-Self
By Aiden Hale2 years ago in Poets
