Teytonon posted a new Poem titled You hear about Karen? 17 weeks ago
There was a lonely young lady named Karen
Her life, she desired to be sharin'
Tried online dating
She ended up hating
Reached the point where Karen stopped carin'
Karen was so desperate to marry
She'd take any Tom Dick... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled when the heart is heard 17 weeks ago
when the heart is heard
Daedalus in the sky, awarded wings of flame, far above the goatherd where reed flutes sing their claim. Plaintive notes ascend, and Icarus’ heart is... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled boy with flute 17 weeks ago
Boy with a Flute
He stands ankle‑deep in sand, goats nosing the salt air, their bells a clumsy counterpoint to the thin breath of his reed.
The tune is not polished— it wavers, a thread of sound that seems to remember... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE LIFE IS A GIFT 17 weeks ago
I am grateful for understanding
how every day I am alive
a different gift comes my way…
And I’m happy to wake up every morning
unwrap the gift
and see where it leads me that day. [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled LIFE IS A GIFT 17 weeks ago
May we be blessed to understand
this life we have been given is a gift…
to this there can be no doubt…
and it’s up to us to use this gift…
to help each other out.
[read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled OUR GIFTS 17 weeks ago
We are all born with our own special gifts…
I have a gift or two and I’m sure all of you do too.
Things that come naturally to us.
Things we find easy to do.
It’s what makes us all unique…
and leads us to proclaim…
how no two... [read more] |
orangejumpsuit posted a new Poem titled Tropical medicine 17 weeks ago
Heterozygous for sickle cell
all the babies are reared in stables
there are always flys in their faces
the cytoplasm never freezes
bugs year round
took thousands of years to get the fuck out of there
out from home, where the diseases are... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled Devon Pan 17 weeks ago
Devon Pan
A boy with goats, flute pressed to his lips, breath spilling into wood— a ribbon of sound trembling like reeds in a river.
The goats shuffle, a comic chorus, yet their eyes, like his, turn toward the woman on wheels,... [read more] |
Pungus posted a new Prose titled fixing a few things 18 weeks ago
A mandatory principal was needed, as if our office in officiating surrogate of the divine or otherwise derogatory quaked forth, unlike a duck quacking… My goals are set, scribbled in stone… My, what a project has to offer… The random clanking... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; On The Private Beach, Just Down From That One Hotel, In Venice 18 weeks ago
[after Thomas Mann's novela, Death In Venice]
Clad in a yellow shirt and blue slacks, Jaschu; and
clad in a blue shirt and brown slacks, Tadzio; and
both barefoot, the two BoyFriends (lovers), walk the
length of the hotel's private beach,... [read more] |
nasheed posted a new Prose titled ألزهايمر 18 weeks ago
عد إليّ يا أبي
نادني باسمي الذي تحبه
لو مرة أخيرة
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S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Slight Disagreement, In Utmost Respect, With The Great Poet, Constantine Cavafy 18 weeks ago
Great Master Cavafy, though I esteem you the greatest
Poet of the Homosexual fraternity, I believe, but with
utmost respect, that you erred to describe Kaisarion's
shoes, and the ribbons that secured them, on the day of
Proclamation of the Kingships... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Late At Night, At My Place 18 weeks ago
[after Constantine Cavafy's Poem, "Since Nine O'Clock," trans. Keeley and Sherrard]
Like a playful poem, remembered with glee, the
image of my adolescent body comes back to
engage my imagination: the frizzy hair
much longer than my parents... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 9TH POEMS: A Word From Jacob Leaning On His Staff [Hebrews 11:21] 18 weeks ago
"At my age, I think I have the right to say---
"to express with sincerest honesty---
"that in old age, not every dawning day
"brings easy living in the fresh sunlight;
"just as, once in a while, each dusk-drawn night
"seems shadowed... [read more] |
ramonathompsont posted a new Poem titled Make Brains Great Again 18 weeks ago
Inspired by of all things a picture of someone in a Donald Trump zombie costume!
Maybe if we could all just come together
A little or a lot of something could be worked out
Kings after all do not rule over us
Everyone just needs to find a way... [read more] |
