Genre: Dark her own secret haven a black hole of tall spurs and a placid lake a trail there she only knew her own mad-house she came to cry at muffled and stifled her silent streams of tears trickled night after night the lake owed itself to her eyes what pain filled her and what […]
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Read Poem: never-ending sun, by Kristen Corbisiero — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Run away with me, To a place where the things we worry about don’t matter, Where the sun melts into the sky, And the birds sing so beautifully we forget the sun never sets. Stay here with me in the paradise of our own making, Dancing and play in the sunflower field, And we can […]
Read Poem: GUILTY, by T. Jarmon Hildreth — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
I don’t have to say your name or hide beneath hyperbole and metaphor or change the details to protect our guilt neither one of us are innocent we both created a storm that left behind enough pain to last lifetimes I dare not pretend this is in honor of the beauty we were in the […]
Read Poem: No Matter Papa Repents…, by Matthew Scott Harris — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Every blasted acrimonious misdeed aye indelibly perpetrated affecting ye and the Punim for life hounds me doggone soul night and day venomous wrath torments, strangles, racks… every bone in mine entire body suicidal ideations haunt every waking and sleeping hour, perhaps previous attempts to communicate, (albeit poetically – for no rhyme nor reason) fell short, […]
Read Poem: Exile, by Sujoy Bhattacharya — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Post modernism was polishing posterior part of civilization . A raven raised its bruised beak to battle with the ugly bestiality . A bovine call disturbed the desolate domain- traverse tranquility. I was standing on the bank of Yamuna full to the brim – as consummate as a pregnant woman at an advanced stage . […]
Read Poem: The Lectern’s Rise: Life Goes Ahead 2, by Lawrence Mathebula — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
They frown a lot and say, you don’t belong But days with them my God here still prolongs; Each beat the swift pulse in it, fire flies ‘Gainst throngs that wind louder that, I should die One happyless, unfortunate human being Passed by the best a daily hour fleeting. Look at myself; his shadow by […]
Read Poem: TEARS, by Pallavi Deepchand — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Walking through the rain, I try to forget the pain. I try to ignore the sting in my eyes, because I know a strong girl never cries. I begin to run, run from my fears. But I am followed by my ever-present tears. I want to leave these familiar places, leave behind all of these […]
Read Poetry: The Fall, by Lucy FitzGerald — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
A cloud of smoke haunted us until an empty gale blew it away A susurrus of dead leaves and poison dioxide I sat silent benchside cess benchside sycophants A ménage à trios of social decay And while I was breathing Death’s frozen kiss they cradled their own disgrace My company a cigarette snug between bones […]
Read Poetry: War Cry, by Megan OKeeffe — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Don’t open my door if you aren’t going to close it when you leave Are you listening to me? I deserve respect no matter my size or shape, just like everyone else I am not some object to conquer or kill Are you listening to me? The Taliban cannot just board my dusty school bus […]
Read Poem: Journeys of Mortals, by Toyin Sebastien Ajimati — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
We are born eventually knowing that we will die, Yet that reality brings fear, faith, infatuation and a mystic that is unmatched in our existence, From scriptures to sacrifice we are godless to what is to some a God requirement of this universe, Some try to reverse and stop the inevitable, By shaping themselves with […]
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