death by elocution

18/F/Indiana    I'm sitting here twirling my thumbs thinking, " who am I? "

everywhere    simply here to read poetry and hope to be inspired by others.

Michigan    Just like Icarus, I fly too close to the sun.

24/F/Georgia    I feel everything deeply

Jhb south africa    " I write as a function, without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of me as the liver or …

France    Just trying to find the reasons of life...

Cape Town   

London    Picking flowers in strange fields.

Sofia, Bulgaria    Love ~ writing ~ reading ~ religion ~ poetry ~ swimming ~ nature ~ sky ~ trees ~ old libraries ~ book`s smell ~ meditation …

Hemel Hempstead    Poet and short story writer. My short stories are mainly horror. I was attacked in 1997 and my left leg badly burnt which led me …

28/F/NH    Silence is the loudest cry for help. 4 AM knows all my secrets. I keep it all inside cause id rather it destroy me then …

35/M/Nashville    A compilation and or congregation of my contemplation.

36/M/Japan    “It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.” ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

23/Non-binary/Void    I only write poetry when I'm mentally deteriorating.

26/Two-Spirit/Philippines    doesn't make any sense/ trying hard to be a poet/ in between- madness and sanity, reality and fantasy. /Twitter, IG & Wattpad : @IGMSOfficial/ Tiktok …

17/F/PH    i'd like to believe i'd be happy someday

Atlanta, Georgia    My story is that of everyone I've ever met.

Sad things, serenade me.

27/Trans Male/The Secret Garden    Trying to sleep, but all I do is dream.

ND    I am a high school math teacher who fiercely loves her students and moonlights as a poet.

Chicago    "A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and …