Poetry

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The first years

30 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

This last potion of youth will pass,and the first years of a face will comethat will be the face of an old man.I'll look in the mirror and it will be likestanding before my father.I'll smile and he will smile.We'll burst out laughing,and after the re...

I Am Not My Mother… But I’m Bleeding Where She Did

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Shugawrites

I didn’t write this just for women.   I wrote it for anyone who thought they’d break the cycle   only to realize they were standing in it, quiet and bleeding.   Sometimes, we don’t become our parents.   We become the wounds they never got the chance...

That call is worthless,

25 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments espacioreal

  but we think it's worth everything,we also think we're important,that we'll earn our daily bread today,we write poems, we show off the cranesthat lift the pavement, and we complain,all the time, all day long,our politicians, whether they're called...

EURIPIDES, 480 - 406 BC: The Most Tragic Poet

18 Jun 2025 29 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

He was the creator of that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare’s Othello, Racine’s Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg, in which imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their lives and hates. - B.M. Knox   Among the great t...

Pyramids (Original Poetry)

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

My heart swingswhen I hear your callingthe electrical grid lights upand I rejoice,gracefully living and dreaming. I repeat the mantra you taught methe Andromedan galaxy opens upyou smile at my breathing techniqueWho will exit the inversion?I hear you...

In The Madhouse Of The Inhumans

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Be assured, my gentle girls, my ardentAnd lovely sisters, hell is where we’re bound."Marina Tsvetaeva   The basement in my head isflooded— TV rooms arefloating Through my subconsciouscrawlspace; I have purified the rats— Can't you see I'mhealing?  ...

Wings (Original Poetry)

5 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

Chopped.Ripped off.No more dances with butterflies,lullabies, and fairies.And you call me rigid? You taught me to breathe,uplift my light body,transform thoughts into cubicles,and translucent solids, you can’t see. We joked about planets,designed new...

Spiritual Monopoly

5 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Lucid Vibrations

To get to the Father must come through me!Otherwise will suffer, for, ALL Eternity!Fear based spiritual monopoly! Using fear to teach love!My way or the highway!Do what I say! Not as I do... Through you! Me, ultimately! Conundrum!Truth come un done!M...

The Eclectic Geomet

16 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Will Jones

    Eclectic Geomet      ♠♠♠    I am an agent of cosine and tangent   as light blends   I am the spectrum, light into prisms ancient   as night ends   ♠♠♠   I am those terpenes, conifers adjacent   as aromatic whim   I go through corridors  pleasant...

I Warned You (Original Poetry)

15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

Patterns unfoldwhile you weep like a toddlerstripped in a cornertrying to make sense of the world. The ship lifts its anchorand sails into the deepmeeting the skyat the end of the debrief. You turn left, then right,crossing the zero pointwhile failin...