Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Poets.

Crazy
This world This life Your eyes always watching The shadows out of the corner The coincidences that happen The creaks, thuds, and bangs
By Joshua Bonneau9 years ago in Poets
Conditional Love
I wear my father's wedding ring, not as a promise to be kept, nor a reminder of idyllic familial love, but as all the things I never want to be,
By Amanda Frazier9 years ago in Poets
The Meaning of Colour
When you look at old photographs They are colourless Bland Full of hopelessness No emotions are conveyed The world seems lonely
By Arian Mason9 years ago in Poets
You in the Night
It's during the nightIt's always the night...She speaks to meBarely answering me whenever I ask somethingI ask for youIt's always youBut you don't speak to meAt allI try to reach for youBut you run and you keep runningSo why do I have a feeling that you want to stay?It's late in the night nowAnd I wish you were hereBut you're not, as usualSo I'll wait for tomorrow, and early in the morningI will beg that, tomorrow's night, you'll come this time
By Irina Sofia9 years ago in Poets
Nuclear Lovers
When the bomb starts to fall, Plummeting towards the Earth Remember what you whispered In my ear the night before. As it explodes and the air
By LJ Chaplin9 years ago in Poets
A Bittersweet Duet
-Me Come... Come closer… Take me as your prey. Engulf me with your darkness. My Muse, and nemesis, my fall and my rebirth
By Miguel Melo9 years ago in Poets
Two People
Two people in my world, Two people do not sleep. Two who don't know what is fatigue, The ones who are my life,all my life.
By Arzun Nasufova9 years ago in Poets
Hidden Place
Leaves turn to flame as summer is forgotten. Autumn spreads its power through the veins of trees. He wanders as a ghost, pushed along in a breeze.
By Matas Zenkevicius9 years ago in Poets
A Summer Afternoon
Romance in the Sun Truths Encountered What belies the heart belies the mind What truths we seek we seek for justice Not glory, never glory
By Chas C. Smith9 years ago in Poets
Till Death Do Us Part
A withered wasteland... In a bitter gloom I can't escape Drowned by despair Conditions that I can't reshape In winter's arm's, I'm a wilting rose
By Marlena Klages9 years ago in Poets
Down By the River
Never before had I experienced Such perspicuity Until I saw the water. It flowed, So leisurely, So casually, So effortlessly.
By LJ Chaplin9 years ago in Poets
Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice
World falling apart, no one cares all they care about is their own flames burning from inside out. They try to keep them buried but they will not longer stay still.
By Noelia Vallés9 years ago in Poets