53/F/Rochester NY    I have walked in the darkness of I can’t feel because I choose not to. Fell face down and bumped my head on every feeling …

UK    To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

New York, New York    Doctoral candidate at Columbia University

Promethea    i feel therefore i write. “ Something happened to him which perhaps never happens to a man until he is out of his own world: …

A silent soul lost in the pages of Shakespeare's diary

"A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving." - accredited to Lao Tsu, but Bilbo probably said it too

Sa Sa Sun!!! See Ra Run!!! Older than the mountains, younger than the breeze!!! Sa Sa, Ra!! Power of words, first defined, then all meaning …

M/Bedfordshire, England   

She said: "You're the most expressive person I've ever met." And I think I can live with that.

Vancouver, Washington    I am 12 years old and am currently in the 7th grade. I am still developing as a writer and am looking for feed back …

Jurassic Park, FL    Remember me through poetry: These words and those I wrote before. Remember not the man, for he's Much less, and certainly no more. "Always the …

!i!i!i! i like to type until the dawn is just about to give itself to day, and stand breathing in that new freshness of the …

I strive to live life with careless abandon, because after all, "Life is far too important to be taken seriously" -- Oscar Wilde

31/M/Minneapolis, MN    An MFA candidate at the School of Letters in Sewanee, TN.

Slam poetry has caught my fancy lately, but I still love all other poetry. This is a mixture of free verse all the way to …

Ironton, Ohio    www.twitter.com/charlietruant

"I want to write a poem about being swept away in the ocean except everyone else is being moved and I am the tidal wave …

Saturn    Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a …

Ohio    I have missed the joys of writing in recent years, but am glad to have found this avenue and community to indulge in my love …

Vladivostok    These words, I need to write them down.

Lake Ozark, Missouri    I live inside a mind full of other peoples messes. The only thing that lets me make it to the surface for air, is writing …