Read this poem with us SEPARATION by W. S. MERWIN Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stit...Read more

I would love to live Like the lilly pad Striving through dirty water And eyes only for the sun.

I would love to live like a shade of purple, tucked in a band of rainbow, in the infinite sky. ~~gingerbread

I would love to live Free of worldly burdens, Like a floating cotton ball On a gleeful summer's day.

I would love to live like a mocking bird, Making my own tunes, Flying olive ways, Flying June to June.

I would love to live Like a forest , Silent and full of creatures That's untold of its beauty

I wish to live as if a flower surprised by the splendor of my own blooming

I would love to live, though my being protests. Cetacean trapped under the ice. Choose to surface in spite of. - (I asked for an omen, this prompt f...Read more

Just before my grandmother's passing, my aunts took turns bathing her. Fingers that unthreaded the hair, that untied the knots and washed it down ...Read more

The version of me that I play for you is a lie. I cannot tell where my dreams die, or where life decides to untap my phone line. I wish it was all so ...Read more

They say- The things you run away from, will meet you in the middle of the city. Grief found me on a rainy day. Loneliness on a summer day. I tr...Read more

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Although we'll have forgotten each other's faces And the thrush will no longer know how to sing Still, tomorrow ...Read more

Stars shine bright at night when I write

in place of sorrow, let flowers grow there

This world was made from nothing هذا العالم مصنوع من لا شيئ I was no one before I existed كنت لا شيئ قبل كياني I will be no one after I cease to exist...Read more

Be kind, for the tip you give a waitress might have put a roof over her head. The smile you gave a man might have saved him from thoughts of ending i...Read more

They heard my poems and imagined her — someone with gentle hands, a name that sounded like petals. They thought love in my voice must belong to a gir...Read more

Any moment from now, My chest will Rage with me. I know of countless Ways to hide from you, But this heart I have Can barely hide from itself.

Something funny Happened today. I silently laughed With myself then I Remembered, It was always you- With things like these. I would come running ...Read more

That is what love—infatuation, deep connection, whatever name it takes—does. It carves itself into the smallest corners of life, turning ordinary mome...Read more