Category: poetry

  • Sun Awake

    Sun Awake

    Image Credit: Pexels- Rudi Don’t sleep while the sun is awake Sleeping is for plants; they work all day We, the people, have mobility, yet still we limit our abilities. The unwilling has no place in the game. It is the honest man who works all day. This was written by our contributing writer, Kerah…

  • Space

    Space

    Image Credit: Unsplash- Hunter Newton Space Not really a place But we’re always in a race To get to this place That’s just empty But full of everything At the same time There is no time In space No time No place It’s everything and nothing all at once Like you You were everything and…

  • Numbness

    Numbness

    Image Source: Pexels- MART Production Sometimes I feel like I don’t feel anything at all And like nothing anyone could do or say would change that Like I’m completely numb I want to cry, but I can’t  I want to laugh, but I can’t Like my face has been drawn on and can’t be erased…

  • Whispers Of A Forgotten Truth

    Whispers Of A Forgotten Truth

    Image Credit: Unsplash- Frankie Mish Let them play Those drums within me, Like a storm, it rages on Let my love be warm again I’ve been fighting this This feeling of truth and warmth Let it play once again. From my youth I was born to warmth, Warmth turned cold Warmth not recognized Look at…

  • Praise Song For My Mother

    Praise Song For My Mother

    Image Credit: Pexels- Freepik O dearest beloved! Black lapis lazuli, That glows like Guinness. Living image of Aphrodite; My beloved, my mother. If the sun is what, The moon needs to alight, The stygian night sky, Then you are all I needed, To illuminate my world. Oh my mother, Heaven blesses your hands! May all…

  • From The Air Vent

    From The Air Vent

    Image Source: Pinterest From the air vent, as in Venting my bottled emotions onto paper. My digital diary, If you will, My one place I feel safe. The one place I feel safe Is this poetry I share with you: A peak behind the mask I have so carefully crafted, For this time, I have…

  • A Note For My Granny

    A Note For My Granny

    Image Credit: Pexels- MART PRODUCTION Today I sent a short note to heaven, To my grandma beyond those skies. I told her how I miss her nighttime stories, And those wrinkles around her eyes. First, I tried looking on the porch, To see if she still sat in her chair. But I thought I again…

  • Where Do I Go

    Where Do I Go

    Image Credit: Unsplash- Tim Winkler Where do I go, When my time finishes here? Do I return to the dust, Or does my sojourn continue, as I walk in tears? Where do I go, When I heave my last breath? Does everything end here, Or will I find life on another side on this earth?…

  • Beyond The Memories

    Beyond The Memories

    Image Credit: Unsplash- Prokhor Minin In plain sight, you hid A smile crept like dark clouds, Like the stars you glittered Like the wind, you were majestic But now I’m trying to move past this I still hold you dear, but I need to move I’m stuck between worlds Worlds I know not of. Through…

  • Farewell, Richelieu

    Farewell, Richelieu

    Image Credit: Pexels- cottonbro studio Before you go, Richelieu, Take a part of me with you. So I will be there by your side, In all that you will do. Before you go, Richelieu, my friend, Let me hug you for one last time, For I want your scent to remind me, Whenever I’m reciting…