It's all metaphors. Literally, that's it.

"How are we supposed to love one another when we barely love ourselves We are so much better than what they want us to be". …

16/F/Telford    Depression-when your sister dies and you just want to die as well to be with her when you miss her and love her so much.Self …

66/M    Myself a simple being.. Surgeon by profession. I sometimes express my feelings in words & some may call it poetry.. All I write here is …

Johannesburg, SA    "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - Flannery O'connor

Seattle    Someone once told me I'm gonna be one hell of a person when I get out on the other side.

21/M/Long Island    time will tell

Ireland    All of my poetry is copyrighted.

India    ~you can also follow me on twitter my user name is Madonna Suchak

Mumbai, India   

57/F/Mounds View MN    Poetry is Yrteop spelled backward

In a broken world.    You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. - Robert Alton Harris

Winter's realm    April is National Autism Awareness month Light it up Wear blue<3

27/F/in a body and mind.    /eh-nai-lee/ since the beginning ~ a never ending time

my emotions spilled out of my brittle cage

Lagos, Nigeria    A Professor at a West African University EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND~~ PhD. An advocate for the girl child

UK    I love creative writing, especially poetry. "O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed." GM Hopkins. Perfection is Relative.

45/F/Cremona - Italy    Lost for words ,I always had the irresistible instinct to write my thoughts when they crop up in my mind . My soul is dark, …

24/F/cle    it is what it is

53/F/India    I love to write. Haven’t written much in the last two years. Hope to start again some time.

ok    vicTIM of a conscience cleansing society willing to punish a current generation for a past ones deeds....

30/F/East Africa    i love to write only to express only to breathe only to let go

lagos,nigeria    All poems are originally written by me Ovi Odiete © Except the reposts of fellow poets. Ovi Odiete is a Poet and Writer with over …

Pittsburgh    Everything is a work in progress To define the beautiful is to misunderstand it. - Fernando Pessoa

18/norton, ma    been cheatin death for years follow my new poetry blog: https://ladylunawrites.wordpress.com/

Maple Valley, WA    I used to hate poetry. Then I discovered poetry that doesn't have to rhyme, and I grew to love it.

22/Genderqueer    Jellyfish.

Alaskan Grown. Cali life.    Writing calms my soul. Lead with Love. Natasha Ivory Evans © Copyright 2010

30/M/Shoals, Indiana    If life hands you lemons: Squeeze them. Put the juice in your eye. Give yourself a reason to cry. Fucking baby

18/F/New Jersey    Life goes on. Whether you want it to, or not. It just keeps moving forward.

M/California    You may remember me as "skyfall"

Yellow Brick Road    A grenade wrapped in love letters.

25/M/St. Louis    A miracle is translating the subjective stories we hold dearly in our minds into words on paper for others to interpret. All of my work …