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.   

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 …

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 …

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 …

29/M/United States    it is simultaneously very mentally jarring and very uniquely warm and fuzzy to be able to look through a tunnel ten years into the past

“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

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 …

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 …

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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.