F    But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are ...

S.F.   

Albany-area    I love Jesus. Jesus loves me. I love my friends and family. I am emotional, I am young but that does not define me, I ...

Bluff City, TN    I like to write because words allow a certain freedom, much like a painter's canvas or the sculptor's block. I am happily married, have several ...

Milwaukee    “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted.” “An intellectual says ...

25/M/United States    it is simultaneously very strange and very viscerally mentally jarring and very uniquely warm and fuzzy to be able to look through a tunnel ten ...

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.” ― E.E. Cummings

45/F/Michigan    Writing is a reminder that I'm still alive. A hippie with a gypsies touch. Hollow, trying to embrace the earths saliva. Ask me anything I'm ...

Glasgow    Just some bearded guy with words to share

Wantage, NJ    Poetry is my way of venting. While finding my way through these odd high-school years, I write when I don't have anyone to talk to. ...

Palm Bay, Florida    Namaste In my life I have experienced great bliss through creative expression. I love to write, splash colors across canvases and sing devotional songs. Travel ...

Hello friend! My name is infamous1! I've been writing for years, its my voice. I'm being more creative no longer self destructive. I started writing ...

30/M/NC    Just want to write, work with writers, and live through my art

You may regard me as an active recording artist, although I am also a digital music composer who produces his own work. I write songs ...

If you listen, my story will be heard

Michigan    I question things such as consciousness and the general human condition, how good am I at writing actually, and why mac and cheese goes so ...

Still taking notes....

Oakland, CA    My first love in this world was integrity. I am an activist by day, a lover by night, And a dreamer when I'm free.

22/F/NV    I close my eyes— pikit mata

Los Angeles, CA    It is the tension between a restless idealism and a sense of impending doom that keeps me going. Instagram/Twitter: @evanponter

"I should like to write you the kind of words that burn the paper they are written on..." -Dorothy L. Sayers.

I write immediately and truly. "There's nothing in this world that ghosts can do. No matter what's ahead, I'll push on through."

MN    your favorite fuckup

NIGERIA    A very well unknown verser, of four lines.