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A transient flight
Flowing with the passing wind Two free birds Intertwined in flight Unchained But drawn to one another Pure allurement to the eye A...
Jasmine Welch
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[Half past 12 ...]
Instead of watching the world Fade to black At half past 12, I watch my world play back to me— Songs dance in my mind Like conversations...
Poetry
Helena Nikitopoulos
Mar 17, 2022
1 min read
Sirius
We spin and around and past in common time, The sun sets as it wills and not by we, Pulling constellations for me to climb, And in their...
Poetry
Alyssa Thulmann (@alyssathulmann)
Mar 1, 2022
1 min read
Undying
Frozen fingers, red at the knuckles and tips, the ghost of ghastly veins pulsing under paper-thin skin. Icy cold and temperature...
Poetry
Carrie Kieswetter
Feb 13, 2022
1 min read
Villain
His calloused hands graze my neck the tender touch igniting the feeling of warmth of protection of love the perfect man…
Poetry
Kleema Mac
Feb 5, 2022
1 min read
[Today's the day...]
Trigger warning: reference to death
Poetry
Kleema Mac
Jan 17, 2022
1 min read
Girl #1 Twists the Plot...
My breath Rattles through my lungs like the old skeleton rattles his bones My heart Shivers as the cobwebs sway in the breeze My blood...
Poetry
Gray Brogden
Jan 13, 2022
1 min read
Lost in Starlight Shadows
You left in a burning haze Like the sun, never looking back, you drowned over the horizon. The sky a canvas of gradients My pale lonely...
Poetry
Amar Mamone (amar_mam1)
Jan 5, 2022
1 min read
Pixie Dust
I knew a ten year old girl, Her belief in magic was like pixie dust, Coated across her ginormous glasses, Covering her bright eyes. From...
Poetry
Kleema Mac
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
[I wonder what it would be like...]
I wonder what it would be like to have… Crystals for eyes Hair dipped in gold Long gowns of glory Skin as fair as snow Long capes of silk...
Poetry
Helena Nikitopoulos
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
"Worms Must Really Hate The Winter"
worms must really hate the winter it’s cold and the snow covers all the ground and so they must get stuck there is just so much snow...
Poetry
@sequoiatreesap
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
You Never Broke Me
Yes, you gave me blisters from your fingers made of wood. Yes, you gave me burns from your arms made of fire. And yes, you made me bleed...
Poetry
Helena Nikitopoulos
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
The Fishing Rod
Jason Bradfield was woken up by the cold brisk that entered his cabin window. He got off the wood bed and changed into his blue overalls....
Short Story
Chivalry
Dec 30, 2021
2 min read
6 Rings
Tonight you missed my call Or maybe you ignored it — 6 rings and you were gone The moon admired the glow of my mobile As my thoughts spun...
Poetry
Kleema Mac
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
A Once Loved Letter
Soft and tender words on my now dry and folded pages. My cracks and crevices filled by the same sweet nothings That used to fill you. No...
Poetry
Amar Mamone (amar_mam1)
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
If I Were a Coffee Mug
I wish I were a coffee mug So every morning When the moon lands slowly on the horizon You’d hold me. Fade out of humdrum day dreams as...
Poetry
Lauren Asner
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
Rahm | Mercy
This is for the mothers of war. For the women from whom war has taken everything. For the women who hold the last hopes of war. This is...
Short Story
Ayman Arik Kazi
Dec 30, 2021
3 min read
She is an Ocean
She is an ocean Wider than you can see Deeper than you can imagine. You think her a drop of water But that drop contains infinities Life...
Poetry
Jill O'Craven
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
(zeh)en [the mind]
how can you reduce the body the actions the thoughts the silence of my colour of my creed of my origin to the category “of unimportance”?...
Poetry
Aisha Khan
Dec 30, 2021
1 min read
before i forget how to
today I am allowed to hurt. my bed is a safe place I am allowed to stay. but I can smell Italian espresso in the kitchen & there is a...
Poetry
Lauren Asner
Dec 29, 2021
1 min read
From the Smokeless FlameTo the Conscious Clay
Just do not follow the sound of screaming silence, And you shall surely lose the peaceful war. Let excited boredom fashion realistic...
Poetry
Ayman Arik Kazi
Dec 29, 2021
1 min read
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