- How does one know when it’s time to face eternity. Do you feel a tug deep within your soul. Is there a feeling that reaches beyond sensitivity. That tells you, that you’ve reach the end of the ro...
By: ChickaDee |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 11 Apr 2018
- My mother presented me with a bank savings account book on the eve of my wedding. There was $1000.00 in it. My mother smiled and said, ‘You both are going to deposit some money in it from time to ti...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Apr 2018
- We walk the path of life, With death waiting at the finish line. The beginning and end are the same, What matters is the middle. Tis the path of the middle men… What if life and death made tr...
By: anthonychansa |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Apr 2018
- In that other universe, we are the lucky ones. In that other universe, we have finally made it. In that other universe, we never experienced what we experienced here. Life never weathered or hardene...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Mar 2018
- Every raindrop from the sky touching this desiccated earth. Brings fresh verve, causing a sigh. Damping a place, so flowers grow. Like every teardrop from her eye, touches this bruised parched hear...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Mar 2018
- As a young man, oh yes I remember. I was so full of vigor. I was fit tall and slender. Life before me seemed so much bigger. As an old man, I sometimes live inside my past. I look back on tha...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Mar 2018
- I have to restrain myself, not to let you see me in tears. I pretend to ignore you. Try to stop thinking of you. Only blame myself that I have no title to love you. Looking at you, I am so helple...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Mar 2018
- Tale 1 A little boy was fond of a little girl who was studying next class. They lived in a beautiful small town. Then, the little boy picked the wildflowers on the roadside for the little girl aft...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Mar 2018
- Everything society finds to be rational, is simply a revelation, or an interpretation of another's expressions, or beliefs. To be true to one's self, one has to look deep inside. Not hide real feeli...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Feb 2018
- We both know that letting her go would be heartbreaking for us but there really is no way not even for one whole day to stay with her and keep loving. I am sorry, my darling flower. Forget me f...
By: scoobydoo440 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Feb 2018
- His eyes grew wide when he saw her walking by.
By: scoobydoo440 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Feb 2018
- Is it just me… or has anyone else noticed that our sneaky ass markets went from 12-ounce cans to 10-ounce? So now when a recipe calls for a 12-ounce can of weasel nuts, our calculations are all messe...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Feb 2018
- Laying in my bed exploring a dream, In my own reality worlds, I can soar like a glider, walk through a wall, Or seduce some beautiful girls. I am a deity in my perceptual state; These hallucinations...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Jan 2018
- There is an infinitesimal line between love and hate. Sacred dreaming, and restless sleeping. The kinds of things that keep you thinking. First hint of day glows through the blind or window shade....
By: CKAcres |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jan 2018
- I remember sitting in class in high school watching the other kids socialize and grab-ass. Their laughter ringing in my ears as if life was a plate of oysters, each one filled with pearls. I was the...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Jan 2018
- Sadly, As I pen this tome, I once again, Find myself alone. When I was young, I had such dreams, I wasted them all, Falling apart at the seams. My life was lived, In parceled moments, ...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Nov 2017
- Today is my son's 10th birthday. I never thought I would make it, but now, my kids are my life. They keep me from stopping. My own father was murdered when I was five and those 'why' and 'what if' ...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Nov 2017
- If the water can return, take me away please! If the water can take in, it will never grieve! Someone admires you streaming freely! I wish to swap with you, then I can run capricious! If the wate...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 03 Nov 2017
- Based on a true story, which took place in Sichuan, China after a massive earthquake on 12 May 2008. In his last few words, he said, ‘I am the first one who is lying under the three layers of concre...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Nov 2017
- I’ve never been a man who wandered… Or lost my focus and lazily sauntered… My paths may have been twisted and broken… They often lead me to places best left unspoken… As I walked between spaces b...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Oct 2017
- Everyone has his own name. The name is also his registered label! And how many people will protect it seriously? No matter the one is SOMEBODY or NOBODY! They still have their own reputation!!! ...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 06 Oct 2017
- Working with children, you're privy to some of their conversations. Overheard snippets as you walk past or sit next to them. Even the very young children somehow seem to be able to effectively commun...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Sep 2017
- An ascetic came from a long journey to an obscure village on a gloomy night. There were some villagers continuously walking to and fro in the streets. When the ascetic walked into an alley, ...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 12 Sep 2017
- Something maybe happens. Something cannot let it happen. But, it happens in life always! And it is completely out of our expectations! All in all, it is just an interlude that has happened t...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 20 Aug 2017
- I have a request to Buddha, “Please let all my friends be healthy and happy forever?” Buddha says, “Only four days!” I say, “Alright, Spring-day, Summer-day, Autumn-day, Winter-day.” Buddha s...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4|
Added: 08 Aug 2017
- You caught my attention right from the start; It wasn't long before you captured my heart; Years later, we've been through so very much; We've not had it easy, we've had it quite rough; We've both ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Jul 2017
- **Legend has it, the greatest thief of all time spent two minutes drinking a glass of wine with his shadow after he killed his victim**. Jack trembled as he placed the gun in his mouth. Taking one l...
By: anthonychansa |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Jun 2017
- Lonely hours into the night, battling tears and losing the fight; Broken heart that few will see; shattered spirit inside of me; Serene facade, despair within; pondering life, as it would have been...
By: WildIrishRose |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 May 2017
- Entry XXVII – As of late, I have been rereading my father's letter, the one that was delivered to me well over a month ago. It may be no surprise that I have reviewed every word quite carefully, ...
By: ZMahnke |
Category: Young Adult |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Apr 2017
- People have many different ways to find peace When living is just becoming too hard to bear, For some it is in sleep, some have a special place, Others seek the company of lighthearted friends, Some ...
By: KindOfHeart |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Apr 2017
- I can't remember your face. Maybe because I don't recall it. Did you get replaced? Are you the same misfit? Who are you right now? Your words don't fit like they did. I have mistaken it somehow. Are...
By: Entangled_Fate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Mar 2017
- Sailing away to a new life There was a clash of thunder and a flash of lightning. The rain lashed down, soaking Peter Donnie as he stood there looking back at the city. His rucksack on his shoulde...
By: rbo |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Mar 2017
- Friendship is not just about good times It is about walking in and sitting down As others walk out. It doesn’t focus on past choices or mistakes As they shall never over shadow the good memories...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 04 Mar 2017
- It's been a while now, For many moons, I've thought of you, But time is an ever changing tide, Washing away my memories, my sorrows, my vivid dreams. I try not to think much. Let me be. Dumbed down....
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 20 Feb 2017
- Somedays I feel like diving, out to the ocean and into the cold, just let the waves take me, until I naturally float. My most morbid thoughts, are of getting old, it's a long hard life, and...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Feb 2017
- I'm feasting at this the table of life, No knife no fork just a blunt knife. My plate is filled and I can't get through fast enough, I'm filled but the waiter willing adds more stuff. There heaps...
By: TheOriginalHybrid2 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Jan 2017
- My hands shake while I write this and I doubt if at all I'll be able to justify his battle with life, on my paper. Connaught Place couldn't have been a better place on New Year's Eve if he hadn't bee...
By: vishu93 |
Category: General |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 19 Jan 2017
- I watch, I interact, I escape I peep from behind the darkest cape I cry, I laugh, I love for a while I run and play, just like a young child. My friends are mine and also others Some I consider as s...
By: Martin |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jan 2017
- A man sat and contemplated his life It was one not worth enduring, he thought And the months stacked upon each other His feeble existence weighed heavy on his mind And one day, he stood a...
By: JätteskogFrejyason |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Dec 2016
- Stalking the essences of a dream, I meander throughout the streets that have become rubble. It is quiet, unsettlingly so, but there is beauty in ruin. I dream of the little things. The way fiery sun...
By: incaendo |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Dec 2016
- There is a force out there both benevolent and malicious It forces us to push ourselves past our mental and physical limits It strikes when it is least expected It has killed probably as many as it h...
By: JätteskogFrejyason |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Dec 2016
- A couple of years ago I noticed that I was having some troubles walking. It wasn't anything really serious, just that my legs felt a little weak, stiff and I had no stamina. I started having some back...
By: CleverFox |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Nov 2016
- Every day, he got into his car and drove. Every day, he was free. He could just keep going. Drive to the mountains, or the lake, or the forest, or a city far away. He could go on wild adventures,...
By: LousyNick |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Nov 2016
- Unlike my other two 'Open letters' that I have written, these are very general and do not fit into any specific category like my makeup and underwear open letters. These are just general topics from m...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Nov 2016
- Such a load she had to bear, unbeatable pain was always there; She was so brave and dignified; despite it all, she seldom cried; When told she wouldn't make it through, she insisted there was more to...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 Oct 2016
- A babblin' brook meanders by as I gaze upon a cloudless sky; Lyin' on the grassy shore, tis nary a thin' I treasure more; A breeze blows softly thru yonder trees settin' my troubled heart at eas...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Oct 2016
- Why should I be here when my child has gone? I'm devastated and don't know how to carry on; She had a bright future coming her way; Till everything changed on a beautiful spring day; She wa...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Oct 2016
- Love me true or let me go, No more lies, I pray; Let me go to live my life, No more games to play; To live my life without your love, I'll try to find a way; ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 20 Oct 2016
- While walking on the path of life when troubles came along; I noticed the footprints in the sand belonged to only one; I questioned God, who answered, "My child, you never were alone, ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Oct 2016
- To my one and only whom I love with all my heart; I say a prayer every day and wish we weren't apart; You changed my life in many ways that I never would have thought; From you I learned so many...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 15 Oct 2016
- My mind begins to wander at the end of each long day; Into the realm of the unknown and the roads along the way; The many choices that I made as I led my life; I'll always wo...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Oct 2016
- Innocent one, come take my hand, as we explore God's wonderland; Trust in me for each me day; We'll learn new lessons along the way; God's gift to me, I promise you, all the love a ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Oct 2016
- They were in a hurry That is why they left so early The fog was thick She didn't see the truck Only the sound of the horn As it came up behind her It happened so fast But in slow motion ...
By: maryruth |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Oct 2016
- somewhere a drowned man walks along the shore, bemoaning the dry land on which he walks. he doesn’t notice the rank seaweed caught in his hair like a beggar’s crown. the abortion room gives up it...
By: blackvamp1 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2016
- Inspired by a posted in the forums by Bella85 Tomorrow's light, Brings another day. Tears may fall, And darkness display. Truth be known, We're all made of clay. Hardened by fire, Glazed by ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2016
- *** Ever heard the tale of how the luckiest man in the world felt like the unluckiest man. Every woman in the room admired her and every man was envious of me. It was when the lights flickered, the ...
By: anthonychansa |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2016
- You do much more than I can convey; Three small words written on a special day; Changed my life in so many ways, and I'll love you for eternity; I know you're the man for me; Though so...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Oct 2016
- They say love is blind, perhaps, but only to the eyes; Not to the heart, there's no compromise; You give what you get, you get what you give; Live what you love and love what you live; ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Sep 2016
- When I was young I thought I knew all the answers to get me through all the troubles that came along, but now I see how very wrong that thinking was and now I know each trial was mean...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Sep 2016
- Have you ever envisioned how it is to see one of your family members dead? It may be unusual, to begin with an ending; however, all endings are actually beginnings, it’s simply that we didn't know it ...
By: shankarkittu |
Category: General |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 22 Sep 2016
- I remember the night when it started. The dark mass that haunted me in my room. My friends and I were playing tag along the edge of the woods. It was becoming dark, and the noises in the forest began...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Sep 2016
- Dare to be different, not just the same; As all the others in lifes big game; Stand out in the crowd from all the rest; Life is for living, it's not just a test; Be wh...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Sep 2016
- As you go through life you'll have your ups and downs; You'll know who your true friends are by who remains around; There are some who are with you when the sun is shining bright; But at the...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Sep 2016
- Scattered thoughts inside my head; Secluded in my room I feel such dread; A wayward life that I have lead; Upon this lonely path I tread; My shattered heart has surely bl...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Sep 2016
- Can you not see As they stand before you Can you not feel The world start to change Each year as the leaves On the trees start to fall Winter to summer Then summer to fall Again and ag...
By: maryruth |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Aug 2016
- For the last few weeks, I've had the opportunity of having several clans of my family visit for various lengths of time. As most of you who know me are already aware, I am as fun to visit with as a wo...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Aug 2016
- Come dance with me Be my partner always Hold my hand And my heart next to yours Let us take each step Of our life together In each others arms Knowing together We can make our own m...
By: maryruth |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Aug 2016
- The sin of humanity is shared Not Eve Not Adam Both sinned. I do not need an apology from either than to prevent the recurrence of that sin God made man with the sole intention to rule and govern...
By: christena |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 14 Jul 2016
- From a very early age, my father told me he was part Cherokee. Which meant I was part Cherokee. How much was always up in the air but there was some comfort in knowing whether it was a quarter, an eig...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 09 Jun 2016
- If there was a reset button In this life, Where we get to Restart each time we feel We have failed, Or gotten hurt And wanted to forget, Would we use it? Would we really want to Forg...
By: littlemunchkin |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 May 2016
- I may not be an angel, more like the devil's son. Circling on blackened wings, charred by life not the sun. Prefect, hell no I'm not, would never profess to be. Soaring high inside night its...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 May 2016
- "Shhhhhh.. we must be quiet." The father leaned in close to his son and whispered, "You must watch. You must remember." His young son looked quizzically at his father and asked, "Why?" Standing at...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 May 2016
- A negative has a positive To make things right The rain a rainbow After each storm The moon keeps the darkness From being alone When times are good Or troubles ahead I will be positive When y...
By: maryruth |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Apr 2016
- Sometimes I want to warn people that I am a ticking time bomb, a lit fuse, and dynamite in motion. I want to tell them not to get too close to me because I will hurt them, not before I hurt myself, b...
By: veritas |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Apr 2016
- I had to go to the airport to pick up my son yesterday. I've made that trip at least a hundred times, so I was in my robotic brain-dead mode where my 50+ years of driving and my subconscious muscle me...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Apr 2016
- A bunch of questions crossed people's mind constantly, mostly how to achieve a dream and make it real by overcoming difficulties and failure that each of us encounter. Life is like a ship, and hum...
By: meryem |
Category: General |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 20 Apr 2016
- Life is a journey. We travel it's paths. Though not always easy. It's always adventuresome. Sometime feeling alone. Encountering many challenges and obstacles. Our goal is to reach a certain d...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Apr 2016
- Drink Of The Fruit Outside the city where the pomegranates grow, In the fields of the everlasting mind. Shines the rays of enlightened warmth I seek, And the hopes of a new mankind. To ta...
By: Pirate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 19 Apr 2016
- Questions I don’t want to ask Answers I don’t want to know Decisions I don’t want to make Places I don’t want to go A life I lived in retrospect Choices that I should have made Chances had but left u...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 16 Apr 2016
- A Different Lost (For Mzhyper) They say I am strange, for the things I like best. I do things different, never following the rest. I am most happy, when I’m most lost. Of the things I di...
By: Pirate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Mar 2016
- House of Horrors :) - Adrian Gabardo Welcome to my paradise, feel free to play around with my mind. The spiral staircase, moves around. The rainbow coloured walls, drip melting like tears to the ...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Mar 2016
- The Time that Lies - Adrian Gabardo I slept my life away, I ate my flesh to rot. The days seem to go by, and I just lie down waiting to die. Those beautiful honest moments, of love and pa...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Mar 2016
- Living things I can't undo. Bitter-tasting, like a rue. Nearly always askew. Into a looking glass I peer. Manifestation so unclear. Expression fraught with fear. Different gateways to my soul. One ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Mar 2016
- Dreams - Adrian Gabardo There are no more tears, Just sorrow and regreat. The darker it gets, the shinier the smallest rainbow. The unfulfilled dreams aren't gone, but instead a memory of ...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 23 Mar 2016
- Fallen - Adrian Gabardo The skin, loses the flesh The body, loses its soul. I'm floating, Lost in this World, I'm drowning, Feeling all alone. Take my hand, tell me where to go. Rai...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 19 Mar 2016
- One seed blooming bright Two petals opening wide Three raindrops watering down Four sun rays shining warmly Five roots growing deep Six feet running by Seven giggles floating near Eight steps c...
By: BBaker |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Mar 2016
- "We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. As for the possible, men suffice." -Leon Chestov. A maré se vai - Adrian Gabardo Sometimes the strongest knot is the weakest, when...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Mar 2016
- The moon shines like a phosphorescent pearl, Washing the pines and water in a silver glow. I've walked this wooded path many nights; Singing songs to the heavenly river above About this earthl...
By: TheGreatValette |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 11 Mar 2016
- The path was clear The way well lit No surprises no unexpected twists The choices were clean Simply black and white I dutifully followed Stepped well within the lines Then came tu...
By: BBaker |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Mar 2016
- All is Gone - Adrian Gabardo I guess it's true, everything does turn to rust, time is such a careless bitch, dropping you to the ground on every opportunity. Everything I've been, has n...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Mar 2016
- This week, I attended one university lecture a day. I took notes, tried to learn things, played the part of the good student. Only I’m not a good student. In fact, I’m not a student at all. I’m jus...
By: LousyNick |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Mar 2016
- Life starts life ends. You can never revist the moment it all began. Pain and joy a temporary. Life is a path in which the destination is unknown. You stand you fall yet you will never remember i...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Mar 2016
- Death and decay call for a meaningful day gathered around a hole in the ground questions and mourning depicted from the sobs preacher says impersonal message as a goodbye A box holding a body goes...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 04 Mar 2016
- Schism - Adrian Gabardo I typed a few words today, it was all just a mumble, just sentences of non-sense and no significance. The only way for my brain to work, is for me to hit rock bott...
By: a_gabardo |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 02 Mar 2016