Labels are meant for soup cans. These are the reasons I'm a poet. I am: + The type to put your needs before my own …

“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and …

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other …

Detroit    Poetry for the writhing masses

words flow from my pen and have done so since i was in my teens...i started writing on a suggestion from a very good friend... …

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 …

just me

Because expressing yourself abstractly is the most effective way of evading offense. =] Critique appreciated!

27/M/Fremont, CA    Write me a picture.

Started writing poetry in the military. Full fledged Insomniac, which is where my ideas and poems reside. Warning; lack of sleep will cause crazy babbling …

Buffalo, N.Y.    Carly is your typical 5'4, long-lived, fire-spirited, incandescent Pheonix. In her spare time she enjoys nestling up against a nice white-hot bundle of twigs to …

I am the artist who forgot.

Denver, Colorado    I'm trying to get back to that point where I'm creating content that satisfies me and that I actually make time for writing.

I'm not quite right and I'm usually wrong.

I write poetry to exorcise the dark demons that will take over my life if I don't. I also write poems of love for my …

I am doctor by profession and a creative person by heart.

I am raw refined.

29/F    I want everyone to have somewhere they feel they belong. Infatuation is a slippery slope and I have never been someone with traction.

I am an indian from mummidivaram ,a village in ANDHRA PRADESH.I am an ENGLISH TEACHER, resource person, textbook writer,transalator and write poems in my mothertongue …

Seattle, WA    Loneliness is great for life lessons... But it's not what life is for. I'd like to give myself to you, In a way that you …

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.... We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder …