Endless pain . of . an . empath

Colorado    Keep looking up.

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 …

Torquay, Australia    Do you trust everything you write?! I'm just a passenger on this ride, any comments would be greatly appreciated, interaction is one of the key …

Canada    the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad

where is my mind? ☮

UK    all my 'poems', to use a term so loosely it becomes abusive, are awful. I'm here to read poetry more than I am to write …

Lana is an award-winning author and Poet Laureate. She's the winner of the 2018 International Book Award for Poetry for her new collection "To theLeft …

Xenia, Ohio    I'm not sure how to change the world but with words, the world seems to change.

Cape Town South Africa    "Perhaps everybody has a Garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen the garden before they see the flaming sword.Then, perhaps, life …

Ohio    I have missed the joys of writing in recent years, but am glad to have found this avenue and community to indulge in my love …

Ísland    "It was only the sea sounding weary After so many lifetimes Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere And never getting anywhere" -Charles Simic

28/F/New Jersey    poetry is my way of speaking out and connecting to the world i write what i feel when i feel it...these are all my thoughts …

Don't expect me to write phenomenal poems I'm never told that I can write And I like that But, I do love me a good …

26/F/Rhode Island    I am just an amateur poet. Waiting for her heart to finally stop.

New York, New York    Doctoral candidate at Columbia University