- I hate what has happened to my America. Where a rancid political system works for the few and not for the many. Where a foul media keeps coloring the news instead of just reporting it. Where class di...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2018
- Teresa and Mabel, twelve and eight, were skating on the concrete driveway and sidewalk wearing brand new roller skates. It was great fun. Father called out the front door to Teresa. She didn't hear ...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Sep 2018
- To become spring, one needs to risk winter. To become summer, one needs to embrace spring. To become fall, one needs to revel summer. To become winter, one needs to cuddle fall.
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Sep 2018
- Symbiotic acceptance of surroundings Within a walkabout of my precursory life No longer hindered by foolish intention Yet buoyed by new relevance Witnessed not with eyes But with humility Ma...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Sep 2018
- It was said that, since Buddha had given a public education in a country. The common people all became the morals, courtesy, and thoughtfulness. They lived in harmony with the mutual love and support...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 09 Sep 2018
- “Mom says there is more than one way to load the dishwasher,” my daughter matter-of-factly informed me. “I don’t have to load it the way you tell me to.” “Your mother is partially correct,” I calmly...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 27 Aug 2018
- You came into my life. Taking a piece of my heart. Back when times were slower. Lazy days chasing butterflies. Quiet nights watching fireflies. Summer days standing in waving wheat. Sunflowers ...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Aug 2018
- With a crack, and a roll. Lightning strikes, the plains awake. Stars winking. With a crack, and a roll. Eyes roaming skywards, total awe of natures glory. Fury and beauty, on the plains. I...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Aug 2018
- A massive old Acacia abyssinica tree grew to one side of the house on the edge of a seasonal pond overlooking the valley and fields below. So much life happened in and around this beautiful tree and ...
By: AriesDragon |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Aug 2018
- Once upon a time, at a temple called Mercy, which was located on a mountaintop, there lived two monks. One was named AWAKEN . The other was named HAZY . At the beginning, they went out for alms e...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Aug 2018
- One day, Buddha passed a respected philanthropist's house fortuity. The master was not at home. He glanced around that sumptuous house. Everything was very cozy and grandiose. There placed a chais...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 15 Aug 2018
- His feeling for her became more and more just a procedure and an obligation after they had been married for ten years. The passions and the joys were gone long ago. Kazrim had also lost his intere...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Aug 2018
- A very distracted man has a talk with Buddha in a temple one late night. He, ‘Enlightened Buddha, I’m a married man, but I’m frantically falling in love with another woman now. I really don’t know ...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Aug 2018
- A temple stood in the center of a huge lake, which was stretched to the horizon. The scenery was so beautiful and peaceful. A great master and his twenty junior monks lived together and cultiv...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Aug 2018
- The morning sun rises, In the horizon. Sit by the window, Looking outside. Birds chirping happy songs. Thinking if she is awake. Images of her stretching, lazily in bed. A smile forming, ...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Jul 2018
- Old grumpy men sit on their rear ends and moan about the days gone by, While we see the stars and visit bars and curse politicians who lie. Old grumpy women sit and portend about people who walk by...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jul 2018
- You know what's funny? How easy it is to give up on something you cared so much about. You constantly tell yourself that you could never give up that something, whether it be a hobby, a loved one, or...
By: Collapsed_Universe |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jul 2018
- Once upon a time, there was a pretty, pure and versatile damsel from an aristocratic family. She had a graceful name – Huimei. Her virtue made so many magnates queue up for marriage proposal...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 09 Jul 2018
- Once upon a time, there was a very ill-tempered woman. She could rage over a silly little thing always. She understood that was wrong. She consulted a Zen Master for improvement one day. The Z...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jul 2018
- Fight to hold on Fight to let go The lessons of life Are the hardest to know Your life is your own To do as you wish You can not turn your back No matter how hard you wish Sometimes guilt and...
By: maryruth |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Jul 2018
- Loved by women and admired by men, A prince among writers lay dying, The slow betrayal by his body Robbing him of hope of the long life That in his youth he had expected, Finally to slip away in peac...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Jul 2018
- You have seen much With your eyes Many things have Touched your heart Dealt with pain Struggled with battles Demons and goblins Both in dreams and not Battle scars and wounds You hide them f...
By: maryruth |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Jun 2018
- It was back to 16 years ago, Guixiang had married to his beloved wife of neglect the secular remarks. When he met a woman whose name was Xiulian, a graceful name. She had divorced from her p...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 30 Jun 2018
- Did you see me, As I walked numb though life? I saw you. Did you see me, While the world spun out of control? I saw you. Did you see me, Sitting at my desk slumped form? I saw you. Did you s...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Jun 2018
- Did you see me, Sitting in the corner? I saw you. Did you see me, As you ordered your olive cheese buger? I saw you. Did you see me, As your friends talked to me? I saw you. Did you...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Jun 2018
- Humpty Dumpty and Three Little Pigs caught the Old Woman in the Shoe, They knocked her and bopped her until they were stopped by a Little Boy Blue. Where have all the nursery rhymes gone? What has ...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jun 2018
- Did you see me at Ireland Army Hospital, Having wheelchair races? I saw you. Did you see my deep and burned head wounds, Laying next to the dying? I saw you. Did you see me on the T.W.A. flight...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jun 2018
- Did you see me in the middle row, Wearing my cotton blue cap? I saw you. Did you see me with my broken arm, Being pushed off the school slide? I saw you. Did you see me in Calculus, Cute redhe...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jun 2018
- I have walked the path of the ancient ones. Each step made me stronger. Wiser. Fearless. I don’t suffer the antics of fools. Nor do I tolerate the pretense of substance. Heavy is the granite of m...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jun 2018
- I saw you. I saw all of you. Walking in the sunlight. Without cover. As if you were immune to harm. Believing that bad things only happen to others. All the while from the shadows danger lurks....
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jun 2018
- My wife is perfect as you can see; An upturned nose, very pretty. She cooks, she cleans, she rings my bell, But it’s her drawers that I love so well. My wife’s drawers are a sight to behold, ...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jun 2018
- All creatures are the will of HEAVEN. It started from the ancient time to elongate till now. How much can the earthling gain or lose? HEAVEN commands it all. Does HEAVEN truly understand all kind...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Jun 2018
- A young man muttered at his bad luck and penniless situation. He frowned all the days. A wise senior came across to talk to him, ‘Hey kiddy, why are you so unhappy?’ ‘I don’t understand wh...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Jun 2018
- Let your mind wander, let my mind go too, Together our heads, simply make two. Two little thoughts, drift in the wind, Like a couple of leaves, carrying currents run thin. A momentary look, a rus...
By: TheWordWeaver |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Jun 2018
- Life would be meaningless without your love, the sound of the whispering rain on fallen leaves stirring up the fresh smell of air that has been scrubbed clean wasted without your heart to share it...
By: ShamelessFlirt |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 May 2018
- She sat opposite her daughter, hands tightly clasped in her lap, “You don’t know everything,” she said, sitting forward so she was eye level with her daughter. “Being an adult, isn’t as easy as doing...
By: vkent1112 |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 14 May 2018
- She was lost in the maze for so many years. Entering was a mistake, a blunder. She shouldn't pay with the rest of her life. She's paid so much as it is. Lost in the maze. But every labyrinth has b...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Apr 2018
- She knew all too well The taste of loss The empty bitter pill From what life had tossed From losing the sweet butterflies Created by a miracle Deep within her being Life’s cruel undoin...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 24 Apr 2018
- 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: HisAmelia |
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
- 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
- His eyes grew wide when he saw her walking by.
By: scoobydoo440 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 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
- 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: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Apr 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: 5|
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: 5|
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: 5|
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
- *** 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
- 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
- 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