Lit Poetry
Friend by Melissa Sussens
Do you know how often I still think of you? How many hours I’ve lost scrolling through the shrine of your Instagram; how I...
Nightlight by Dani Leshgold
i drench myself in moonlight
and pray for an extra piece.
i find balance in a stranger,
in a scream,
maybe one day in silence.
november won’t last forever,...
A Secret Garden by Marissa J. Gates
While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and
beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth...
Maybe by Karen Manabat
Maybe in another life we were there
Waking to a new sunshine
Looking up at a different set of stars
Just you and me
Maybe there we were...
A poem for Melissa by Ronda Redmond
Pink and blue.
Electric blue,
like your running shoes.
I say your feet
are smaller than mine
and you smile.
It is tinsel. Daisies. You blush
every time. You are long,
strong,...
Perspectives: A Reverse Poem by Katherine van Roon
This is a reverse poem, meaning it's to be read down first to reflect one perspective, and then back up — line by line,...
Woman by Jade Marzolf
Count your calories and record what you eat every day; you should be eating 6 servings of fruit and vegetables for optimal health; you...
Insufficient by Arlene Antoinette
I awake in tears,
crying for the things
I want to do for you.
Crying for those things
I cannot do for you.
My flaws more evident this morning
than...
Healing a Decaying Body by Nazanin Soghrati
The year cancer floods my grandfather’s lungs
I unspool myself on the dinner table
and let my body decay in the open air
I wring my hands...
Dream by Julia Nunnally Duncan
In my dream
she is a baby still,
cradled in my arms,
sheltered from any harm
that might come her way.
As I hold her,
she looks up at me,
and...
