Poems and Stories

The Ocean

By Falica Smith Love’s a game to some people &normally ends in pain, somehow Inever imagined it would break myheart & corrupt my soul. I thoughtwould always be the one thing to getme through this life. Now my heart isbroken into millions of pieces & mysoul and all I ever knew is lost likethe sun … [Read more…]

Poetry

By Christine Baert I know it was your breathWarming my bodyAs real as my ownIt was you that held my stonesThe weight of my hopeWatching me crumbleWith that look of contentmentSmiling because you canFulfilling hungerNever backtracking to seeThat you left behind everything I’d needWe’d both smileLike we were trying to hideCovering.I could find youEating and … [Read more…]

Untitled

By Falica Smith Late at night when all the world’sasleep I dream of love, but my painruns too deep. I try to keep my mindoff everything that’s going wrong, Itry to stay strong but once again theLight is gone. I’m all alone in a worldso dark and so cold I wish the dawn of tomorrow … [Read more…]

A Sliver

By Krissy Valdez You say you love me…and I want tobelieve.Then why can’t you see, I wantmore than 3 words and one day aweek? With youThat’s all I need.Yet still I’m craving.So, why can’t you deliver?I want a bigger part of your heart.This is not a demand, please justunderstand.I won’t settle for a sliver. If … [Read more…]

Sickness

By Meegan Burns Wrapped in my blanketShelter me from painCry into disillusionment, NeedA break from this tormenting rainKilled once in a car crashThe blinding lights an enigmaFallen from the entityFound loss is nearly stigmaCripple my divinity withSomething so easily spokenCrucify an embryoBlooming out all emotionsRidicule the patienceHave put up with enough deceptionStifled laughter electrifies meMasked … [Read more…]

Recollection

By Meegan Burns My mistakes are not regretsI’ll make up for them tomorrowThese details form my present circumstancesAnd I love my present sorrowBorn restless so I’m wrongMy resolutions are forbiddenRipple affects make me who I amThe consequences leave me wonderingIf cause comes before affectThe beginning must be never-endingSpoken words are not often heardSo I’m screaming … [Read more…]

Riddle

By Monica Williams I have found the answers to the universe. To some it may be difficult to recognize but we can find the answers in a small object. This object I have heard comes in many sizes. I’ve never seen one up close but I know it’s there. It can become cold with time … [Read more…]

A Bit of Prose and Such

By Nate Davis Late one eve,Or shall we sayEarly the next morn,An obnoxiously sauced,Tricked and sickened,Pre-Colombian AmericanGlaredIn the directionWhereA moon beams reflectionHinted of men with white skinAnd short-lived grins wereIn the distanceWhose technologiesWould not stop in theFace of any resistance And the idealsthat enable such controlTrapping inhabitantsboth young and oldMust change,For patterns of unjustpain and … [Read more…]

The Man Who Walked

By Zach Hobbs There once a man who could walk foreverHe lived in a rundown houseIn front of a old rundown shedWith an old rundown fence around an old rundown lawnWith a old rundown FordThat sat in an old rundown garageThis old rundown man took an old rundown walkHe walked through his old rundown doorAcross … [Read more…]