Take me into your arms Let me feel your last breath escaping your body Just like this heart tries to escape my chest cavity It wants to defy gravity And float into skies to be kissed by stars And absorb...

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Here we are, three days later still trying to make sense of the shitstorm unleashed by the statement from The Missing Slate. That one of the poets many of us saw as showing a promising future in our small poetry pond...

1 rule: SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" from the poem below Tell The Truth by Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – Success in Circuit lies Too bright for...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Standing on the sidewalks billboards of poverty smiling without energy bowed head broken heart. Dancing in unison, throwing sticks in the air, telling bad jokes on cardboard: a liberation struggle gone awry. Smiling without energy, needing to...