22/F    "You're a poet right? Why don't you write something like that?" -David Tomas Martinez

22/Non-binary    i think i beckon love and sadness in proportion

29/M/San Francisco    Let's share our deepest thoughts and desires.

65/M/Kentucky    Studied poetry with Barry Spacks and Haydn Carruth, fiction with Raymond Carver. Works at Terrapin Station record store in far western Kentucky. Recently published in …

25/F/Louisiana   

19/M/in a coffin    and you're gonna hate me when it's over

21/Androgynous/South Africa    Today I am broken Tomorrow I will be healed No words as token But whispers to the hills

48/Cisgender Male/Vancouver, WA    I'm too clumsy to be a dancer, so I'm trying to be a poet instead...

15/F    .

Sunny Florida    I'm a poet and I know it, I make a rhyme.... I make a rhyme................ CRAP!!!

Windermere UK    Retired Gardener. Been published in many books. But find this site truly amazing. Thank you all..

31/F/manila    i try to write about art and internet things

Italy/Malaysia    I am a Malaysian and residing in Milan in Italy. I have been writing poems as a hobby ever since I was around 16 years …

30/M/coming home.    to live in love and die.

30/F    dear diary,

20/F/somewhere in asia   

28/F/United Kingdom    Passionate but nervous. A writer in heart and spirit. I'm someone who wants to find their way in the world, and try to do what …

28/F/South Africa    "There once was a beautiful young maiden who threw herself headlong into the river at dawn - in despair over her lost grandfather."

99/M/USA