redbrick posted a new Poem titled "Nevertheless..." 19 weeks ago
"Nevertheless"
The world applauds its hollow heroes, cardboard crowns dissolving in the rain, while the orchestra saws its strings in half. Nevertheless, I must prevent this outrage!
The poet, drunk on futility, tattoos manifestos on... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled silence of the scroll 19 weeks ago
Silence of the Scroll
The scroll is already written in blankness. Every crease is a syllable withheld.
Do not search for ink— the silence itself is the script.
What you unroll is not revelation but the weight of what resists... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled She’s indictable? He’s too excitable 19 weeks ago
What's with Trump? He's been acting nuts
It's because he hates her guts
How he hates Letitia James
That's why he's made these claims
He would love to see her shamed
'You cheat, Letitia!'
Trump claims she committed fraud
But his... [read more] |
Pungus posted a new Prose titled CHAPTER 4 19 weeks ago
Oh Christ, where do I even begin? Try balancing the scales, baby dragons placed on either silver significant platter, weighing in for professional dragon-tier battle. ‘So, place your bets, yes, place your bets…’ you hear the jester jesting in... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled fall at dawn 19 weeks ago
The first of October—
light breaks across the window
like mercy new each morning,
a psalm whispered through the glass.
The garden waits in silence,
its soil baptized by night rain,
each drop a reminder
where a Word does not return void... [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled SNL - 50 years ago 19 weeks ago
P L A Y E R S G R A D N... [read more] |
pamschwetz posted a new Poem titled ANIMATION 19 weeks ago
IMAGINATION
OF ANIMATION
A DEMONSTRATION
OF FASCINATION
A DEDICATION
OF INSPIRATION [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 9TH POEMS: During A Panic Attack 19 weeks ago
During a panic attack,
I try to whisper the Jesus Prayer:
it causes the taut sense of terror to become slack,
and draws me away from the precipice of despair.
Starward-Led [read more] |
Teytonon posted a new Poem titled Susan’s problem with boozin’ 19 weeks ago
There once was a woman named Susan
Her health she was seriously abusin'
She would drink day and night
Knew it wasn't right
Feared her husband and job she'd be losin'
Susan thought 'There must be a way
To solve this problem, okay... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled drink the hemlock 19 weeks ago
at first the words
were stone in my mouth
silent, heavy, unyielding
you pressed a coin
into my palm—
thirty for betrayal,
or thirty for truth?
now the choice burns:
to open my eyes
and let the imperfect syllables fall,
or to... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled skylight morning 19 weeks ago
Outside the skylight, morning breathes—
not a riddle, not a veil,
but a hand stretched open,
steady as the oak that keeps its watch.
The sky is not abyss but garment,
woven... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled Yet [*/+/^] : Zealously Written To Offer The Final Prayer, Of My Orthodox Christian Soul, 4 19 weeks ago
Lord, I pray that when I am laid out on my deathbed
a final Jesus Prayer will have been on my last breath,
and with my fading thoughts marshalled, said;
that I might be Yours and Your Mother's in a Faithful death.
[ */+/^ ]
Starward-Led,
an... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST ORTHODOX POEMS: Reply To The Poet, Fyodor Tyutchev [Reposed July, 1873] 19 weeks ago
I agree with you, Brother Fyodor, the place where my soul is most complete
is, in accordance to our Elder Sister Mary's choice, clinging to Jesus' feet;
this place of blessing where we may release only exultant tears---
receving His promised eternal... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST ORTHODOX POEMS: Prayer To My Lord And Saviour 19 weeks ago
. . . the common salvation . . . the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
---Jude 1:3
Lord Jesus Christ, regnant King and God, God's triumphant Son,
I pray, and need to pray far more, "Lord Jesus, Thy Will be done."
At this... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE THINGS THAT REMAIN UNSEEN 19 weeks ago
I am grateful for understanding
the reason we close our eyes
when we kiss…and when we dream
is because some of the the most wonderful things in life
are those that remain unseen…
not meant to be witnessed with our eyes open…
but... [read more] |
