Lit Poetry
Panters by Julia Nunnally Duncan
Her grandma called them panters
and declared they ran through the mountains.
The girl lay in bed under a patchwork quilt
in the loft of her grandma’s...
The Stars Know All by Suzi Evelyn
The moment our souls first connected,
I could feel the stars shattering
because I was too young to have found my soul sisters,
scattered among the streets...
Ode to Loneliness by Abbie Arnold
All I know is
when You leave me,
and it’s always You who
leaves
or them who pull me away,
I am left a void.
At least when You have...
Grandmother by Saachi Shetty
Been a year now without you,
without having those seemingly endless conversations and rants,
without savoring your delectable cuisine,
without you complimenting me, my outfits, my hair,...
Homesick by Cynthia Mutterperl
I see it now
the bridge between past and present.
a superstitious metaphor for metamorphosis
and loss
and moving on.
As if somehow
bridge crossing is a profound accomplishment
while the...
Imagining My Father’s Death by Mi-Mi Monahan
if your absence was no longer a choice
maybe the rest of our family
would stop looking at me
like a chipped-tooth smile
they can all see right...
The Yellow Wallpaper by Zohra Hussain
We created a version of
ourselves that we could stomach,
peeled the yellow wallpaper
and brazenly fell in love
with the madness we mistook for magic.
Derivatives by Soham Bagchi
I loved you once.
Wasn’t for too long,
Because you forbid me from it, remember?
It started, and it stopped.
It began from a word to a wink
And...
dyStopia by Emmy Song
When September came and you
were gone with the setting skies and
leaves that crunch like bone
I took a trip down memory lane
alone, in an orange-tinted...
Shattered by Claudia Miranda
Sometimes I just lay on the grass without moving; people call my name, but I don’t hear them. I’m too busy staring at the...
