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I Reached Out Across the Great Divide to Touch You and Felt Only a Chasm
~ / *Where went utopia / As the years trickled?
@Carlo-C-Gomez
52
#1
25
Sonnet to Rebirth
The bar stinks of rancid smoke and despair, / My hands tremble like the leaves on autumn trees. / Years poured down the waste pipe, empty chairs,
@thomas-w-case
14
#2
17
Run Away With Me
Darling take my hand / run away with me tonight / let's color this world with our love
@MidnightVerse
9
#3
15
No Chance
I wrote so much about you — / The way I saw you / Through my eyes,
@Mateja
20
#3
15
Other poems
Mrs. Timetable
• / This is no aleatoric love / Floating among a cradle of a myriad stars
@Carlo-C-Gomez
9
16
In the Homestretch
Still dark. / Cobalt-blue dawn anxiously waits. / The first disjointed thoughts take shape.
@thomas-w-case
77
15
Restless Shore
A sun-burnt woman / drifts along the restless shoreline, / Clad in salt-stained silk,
@MalcolmG
19
14
Pawn to e4
•|• / This is for all the marbles. / The loose marbles in our mind.
@Carlo-C-Gomez
30
13
THE ORBITAL OPTION
Compute has outgrown the Earth. / Land is scarce, cooling is constrained, grids are brittle, and every new watt demands negotiation. A gigawatt on Earth barely feeds the frontier we already run. / Orbit breaks that deadlock.
@marshal-gebbie
44
13
UTC Saves the Poets (Again)
*A comic ode to the last‑Friday 8pm Pacific Zoom* / Poets kept arriving yesterday, / or possibly tomorrow,
@Geof_Spavins
42
13
We're Briefly Gorgeous
i am learning to speak / in a language that doesn't hurt. / the kitchen light is a yellow bruise
@Divy
25
12
Reviving Sun
sun claims my skin, / skeleton trees revive, / a kiss in the breeze,
@flame-heart
6
12
Being Human
The skies are blue, / a shade that's transculent. / Where birds flew,
@ducking
15
11
A Shared Sanctuary in the Rain
(A Collaborative Play) / ******************************** / Introduction
@Songbird0926
105
11
anchored to a shadow
I am anchored to a shadow / or perched upon a park bench / made of echoes
@irinia
22
11
The Cost of Peace
I woke this morning / To grating screams / Screeches and squaling
@emipoetry
17
10
The Little Love Button
A long time / ago / when I was
@thomas-w-case
34
9
(Dont) Remember me
Remember me. / I’m two not one, / One you see and worry,
@remember_me
35
9
April ,Unkept
April arrives as a sweet scent / in the brushing air, / reminding us,was life ever fair?
@Thesilentobserver
25
9
my hungry heart
I do not expect it to last / forever / this aching, burning desire.
@valkyrja
36
8
Unheimlich (the familiar unfamilarity)
Long day of being out and about, / There is just one thing I'd like to do / Reach home, far away from the crowd
@Hazel_Dusk
25
8
I want to write about spring
To capture the smile / That the dancing daffodils bring / And feel the zeal
@Kaviiiita2026
30
7
Standing on the Gravel of Mediocrity
Trolls lurching / from under Center Street Bridge, / spilling poison,
@Twc
44
7
A Shared Afternoon at the Water's Edge
(A Collaborative Play) / ********************************* / We tiptoe out to the lake, careful not to wake the frogs or the dragonflies, though let’s be honest, they’ve probably been watching us all along. The sun stretches lazily across the water, painting it gold, teasing the ripples with each skipped stone.
@Songbird0926
52
7
Ventriloquist
You always talked to little / About what's on your mind / I overcompensated
@emipoetry
37
6
designs
I’d rather not rhyme / perhaps you’ve noticed / i mean, it happens sometimes
@anaisvionet
22
6
entry 42 gravity test
experiment: / drop a memory / into the mind.
@Non-Human_Project
10
6
The Arsenal of Life
Each challenge becomes a quiet tool I carry / And in this living toolkit of life, my strength slowly takes shape / Like the hammer that gives confidence
@Hazel_Dusk
20
6
North
There's a catch, / a gasp. / Bloodshot eyes scan the room
@Songbird0926
39
6
Well, S h i t
Well s h i t, one cat’s still here, one’s gone, / He waits for her, but she’s not home, / Two shadows used to cross the floor,
@Thirteen14
14
5
Only From Afar
Pretty from afar, the stars hold all my gaze, / They pull me in and keep me lost for days. / Soft silver sparks that calm my restless mind,
@Thirteen14
16
5
Phantom Pain
She kissed him like a memory / I somehow couldn’t shake, / Like I’d lived a life beside her
@Thirteen14
32
5
the urging of the flesh
what life was as a ****** / I long forget / but I remember the awakening
@nivek
4
5
"Gifted and Mature"
I suppose I'm "gifted" and "mature" / at least that's what you tell me / So much that it's engrained in my brain
@silverconstellations
30
5
Times Like This
Times like this, / make hell seem like / a pleasant place
@JosephCousineau
5
5
Same Love
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️⚧️🩷 / They taught us love was narrow, boxed in black and white, / A man, a woman, scripted roles, no questions, no fight
@Thirteen14
49
4
Whisper or Shout
if we all shout loud enough then / those who quietly scheme / can whisper in peace
@SS_poetry
6
4
comfortable silence
I don’t want perfect plans / or busy filled days. / Just you telling me stories
@valkyrja
30
4
Sticky Notes On The Fridge
The fridge door looks weird today, / A note that says "sorry, got carried away." / The handwriting looks a little familiar.
@Hazel_Dusk
20
4
A Moments Bloom
Have you ever seen a flower / grow by nine / and die by ten?
@JosephCousineau
4
4
The Sound of Silence
The haunting ring / of silence / reminds me—
@JosephCousineau
5
4
Untitled
Only in a room full of idiots / your wisdom will be despised
@mdpoetry
2
4
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