Most recently published stories in Poets.
a paper advice act now an electrical stat a medical stat a row of a row of subjects and "fats" a bask to kick it with in bed and
By K.A. Smithabout 12 hours ago in Poets
Words were never just words. They were pieces of me scattered between every line. I wrote to escape, but somehow… I got closer.
By Ibrahim about 13 hours ago in Poets
I walked through days that never stayed, faces passing… leaving nothing behind. I smiled but my smile was only an echo
He held the pen like it could break, as if words were fragile things that might disappear if pressed too hard. He had so much to say—
The poem didn’t come to him suddenly. It waited. In unfinished thoughts, in moments he ignored, in feelings he almost understood.
Finally crawled from the screaming sea the moist earth gave beneath my knees Unable to pass a singing fungal colony I unsheathed my
By K.B. Silver about 14 hours ago in Poets
Unhinged The Haiku Unhinged that’s you weird Born from bad blood parents dead Psycho breathing air
By George’s Girl 2026 about 14 hours ago in Poets
Today I deadhead the withered blooms of my memory, pinching off the bruised petals of a former self. A sudden lighting of the mind; clean, decisive, severing the stem where pain flows.
By Tennessee Garbageabout 14 hours ago in Poets
The Darkness Shows In Your Smile You smile as if the world is kind, Yet shadows gather just behind, A flicker there you cannot hide,
Split Personality That’s You. You speak in tones that shift and slide, A different self you keep inside, One face for light, one face for night,
By George’s Girl 2026 about 15 hours ago in Poets
Today, yet again I woke up in the land of the living Filled with gratitude and thanksgiving Someone lay down last night And from their bed they did not rise
By Cheryl E Prestonabout 15 hours ago in Poets