I’m a Bengali in sombrero An Indian from Kolkata I live at a stone’s throw From where flows the Ganga.

death by elocution

19/F/PA    i like music, dogs, and the occasional rhyme.

BCD, PH-YYZ, CA    "I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I …

29/F/Canada    Sarah Ahmed

Los Angeles    Songwriter, spoken word poet, cat enthusiast, sunflower lover, crow admirer, undoubtedly human. https://www.facebook.com/danielleshorrpoetry?ref=br_tf https://twitter.com/DanielleShorr

with(out) Wolf    That first "Hello" was a reunion. The final "Goodbye" - - an impossibility. (Cover photo by Winnie Carolina)

Australia    I'm full of sensitivity and insensitivity. I'm flawlessly broken.

27/M/Cairo, Egypt    5th grade teacher in Cairo, Egypt. Originally from Washington State. On an endless search to find the things life is about like sour patch kids …

Pennsylvania    "all my little life, i tried to get it right, but no one hears when the kids cry, and most of our wounds never heal …

22/F    "Just when I'd stopped opening doors, finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours..." -S. Sondheim

Weymouth    English Language and Linguistics student at University of Birmingham. Inspired by Ginsberg, Plath, Murakami and Kerouac. Aspiring "one day" and hopeful "could be". I write …

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Boston    "I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off a man more cynical, …

Become less. Soli Deo Gloria.

The wind is rising / We must try to live

Seattle    oh well

Ohio    Write it down, get it out, move on.

Norway    My humble contributions of poetry, thoughts, feelings, words and letters, soul stuff and mind puffs, mental excursions from the daily handcuffs. ... "Our glory lies …

I'm just a boy with too many thoughts.

purgatory    ʟᴀ ᴛʀɪsᴛᴇssᴇ ᴅᴜʀᴇʀᴀ ᴛᴏᴜᴊᴏᴜʀs. -ᴠᴀɴ ɢᴏɢʜ

Limbo    Tick. Tock.

24/Non-binary/USA    I like thoughts/I don't like sorrow/I like sky/I don't like false hopes/I like happiness/I like memories/I don't like lies/I like birds/I like people/I don't like …

19/Cisgender Female/MS    I am a junior English major/French minor student at The University of Southern Mississippi. Poetry is my lie.

New York City    "Well I'm so tired of the rain Falling softly on the ground Just enough to get my feet wet But not enough to let me …