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table rock, south carolina
the Carolinas sweat in the summer, / swamps seep ******* humid heat / and the trees bleed hot sap into
@fishernoel
67
#1
150
I did not want the kneeling
I did not want the kneeling / in that hospital room where the blinds stayed half-drawn / against a gray Vancouver morning. Breath rose slow at the sheets
@doc_mabuse
29
#2
136
The Tangerine Sky
Some poems seem to write / themselves; / I just move the pen.
@thomas-w-case
13
#2
136
After Assembly
The astrophysicist on the radio says / we’re orbiting a reject star on an impractical rock, / and still I set water to boil,
@William-A-Gibson
18
#2
136
violence is not a distant country
it feels like / time cannot pass through these layers of agony / it sits heavy and stagnant,
@irinia
29
#5
120
The Easier Thing
i could have gone / a thousand times / the door was open
@RastislavKnezi
38
#5
120
Other poems
Sadness
You ask why I carry sadness inside, / why I cling to the colour grey, / why I worry about everything
@Agnes-de-Lodz
22
113
Missing Instructions
no one prepares you for the middle of things, the long stretch of just paying rent and the strange feeling you didn’t get all of the instructions. / you’ll end up in an apartment that’s aggressively okay, where beetles crawl out of the wall like they were there first and you’re just visiting. / you’ll notice that the carpet smells faintly like someone repeatedly microwaved fish and decided that’s right for the rest of history.
@William-A-Gibson
37
113
Lord & Lady Afterword
She wonders if the world knows. / She remembers she forgot to curtsey, / to demurely eat darkness.
@Carlo-C-Gomez
10
112
secrets i surrender to the night
soft bed, the walls dissolve. / i huddle, long for warmth, / a hand to hold.
@guy-scutellaro
30
101
Eastward
September in the Sonoran / and the night comes loose at the nape. / We sit barefoot on the porch,
@Kiki-Dresden
56
100
The Cost Of Creating
I talk a lot about art. / My fingers never rest / They ache to hold
@Mateja
18
97
Please, No Rain
Hot July afternoons, / ’70s sun blazing down on our wild youth. / Methodist church yard,
@thomas-w-case
56
93
mind the gap
please mind the gap, I need to tell myself / the inbetwenness of life vibrates / mind the gap between words and deeds
@irinia
53
92
Embryonic Rockabilly Polka-Dotted Fighter Pilots
[•] / war games begin in the womb / give birth to infant espionage
@Carlo-C-Gomez
17
86
Point of No Return
Where is the arrow pointing? / The arrow of time, of change. / It points one way. You can never return.
@Carlo-C-Gomez
10
84
Meister Carlo-C-Gomez
somehow has learned to make the / standardized 24 hour clock, / extend to 36,
@nat-lipstadt
19
84
if i had chosen
if i had chosen / i would not have met you / i would have chosen a plain with no name,
@RastislavKnezi
75
82
Empty
No words are coming out. / My thoughts are empty. / For the first time,
@Mateja
12
79
After
after the door closes / after the light changes / after the last footstep fades
@RastislavKnezi
19
78
tell me
tell me / why are you passing / through my dreams
@irinia
16
75
Ink and Blood
There is a gravity to sadness, / a slick weight that drags me / down into a rusted well,
@thomas-w-case
42
74
PLACES WHERE WE WERE BIGGER
(a cycle about light, illusion, and staying your size) / BEFORE THE GAZE / Sometimes you don’t love the person,
@RastislavKnezi
132
69
Neptune's Daughter
In the time / of the end / of the world,
@ShayCaroline
33
67
The Gap
where there was a door / i was the space between it / and the wall
@RastislavKnezi
41
66
Before Time
Before Time / light inside me quivers. / It waits for your lips
@RastislavKnezi
24
65
What The Numbers Dont Say
one person / plus one room / multiplied by years
@RastislavKnezi
15
61
HP Writers Spotlight: Peter Gerstenmaier
~ / March 2026 / HP Poet: Peter Gerstenmaier
@The-Timetables
22
60
I HAVE A WISH
I have a wish / to build my home / far away from Earth.
@Blue-Sapphire
14
54
Objects in Motion
you can leave early / and wonder forever / or stay
@badwords
12
53
tonight
tonight / the city howls a strange humming sound / the night is cold
@irinia
14
52
Our Sacred Convergence
**Architecture of our Oneness** / How deeply I long to step into your world / How quietly I hope to walk beside your days
@melan-of-innocent
21
50
In the First Person
Before my gaze touches the horizon, / I open my ears to let whispers in / that will take me away from heavy paths.
@Agnes-de-Lodz
22
49
Honeysuckle
The sky was breathing today / in an intense blue light. / A dark stain was glowing far away.
@Agnes-de-Lodz
26
48
The Sound of Silence
The haunting ring / of silence / reminds me—
@JosephCousineau
5
46
Eclipse
Night pierces the sky. / The stars are accomplices, / to the moons demise.
@lynn-stillman
3
41
Pieces of Glass
It had been months since we crashed and I was still finding pieces of glass in my forehead, under the skin like pieces of you were buried in The last thing that can I remember was that icy road last December You were saying that you had had enough and I was screaming at you to shut up and then the next thing that I knew I was crying, waking up next to you Snow coming through the windshield and our car in laying in that cornfield I saw your body slumped in the moonlight and then I asked if you were alright Shook your arm and grabbed your head blood on your face, eyes stared straight ahead I will never forget that in that moment tragically overwhelming and potent That I realized you weren't here anymore now I sit crying on my bedroom floor running my hands over my scarred skin wondering if I should leave that glass in
@sherri-woodman
1
41
Smolder
What happened to your heart? / It used to kick / like that old jukebox
@thomas-w-case
47
39
Ghosts in the Corners
I’m almost sixty now, / breathing in the sweet green / fairway of life.
@thomas-w-case
105
39
do you like me
do you like me / or do you like me loving you / because when you're sick i'll bring you hot tea
@ducking
10
39
The Clock That Refuses to Speak
I keep a silent clock, / one that will not mark the hours / with its bright little hammers,
@Geof_Spavins
34
36
Save Me, Sweetly
Save me, so sweetly, / with your expert advice / on how to live someone else's life.
@Aegis-Vistoria-Penumbra
24
35
Under the Siris Tree
i watch her again, / like every june day. / into the shadows under the siris tree,
@VanessaRue
51
35
Dance that Doesn't End
Have you ever danced on quicksand? / My god how fast you spin / Gliding on your heels
@Kalliopie
16
35
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