- Life has a funny way of knocking us all down, making it seem impossible to get back up. Luckily, the human spirit is stronger than disaster, able to withstand things we thought we weren’t capable of....
By: Collapsed_Universe |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Jan 2019
- Let's take a ride, little one, you think. Get in the car. We need to get out with our reflections rippling across the terrain, the vistas of the musing mind today. Today it's time to think. As thos...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Nov 2018
- Crossings and remembering a school of fish, calm and lazy, and of wanting their serenity so bad I ALMOST jumped overboard, remembering that everything was as it should have been, … as these ...
By: EyeOfTheBeholder |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Oct 2018
- I pulled the last olive off the swizzle stick with my teeth and ate it before finishing off my drink. Looking up at the clock it, showed 4:20. It was in the AM, not the afternoon. It had been a lon...
By: meredith |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Sep 2018
- When you’re little You never think You’ll find a prince Across a screen You dream of castles In the sky Riding rainbows Learning to fly You find a telescope And see the stars Not ...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 02 Jul 2018
- Did you see me on the bus, At the first stop four run north? I saw you. Did you see us being sworn in, Standing ten rows back? I saw you. Did you see the late night crying, Empty beds in the m...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Jun 2018
- Sweet thoughts of you came unbidden today, Chased my melancholia away, Sunbeams reigned and the blues fell away, When sweet thoughts of you came unbidden today. Oh, the sun was the same, same was th...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jun 2018
- Each moment we spend together Always means so much Reality showing that shared time Loving affection and heartfelt communication Are a most precious gift. But what about when things fall apar...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 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
- For her.. Its already been one hell of a year Filled with lost friendships and finances Broken promises And a family that just don’t care. For her… She sits alone by the phone Waiting for an i...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Mar 2018
- When darkness takes, its grip holds tight Restraining me, yet out of sight I punch and scream, but can’t break free While all along, it laughs at me It mocks me so like I have choice Teases my hope...
By: Ping |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Dec 2017
- THE GIRL IN THE RED DRESS I saw her face, a crowded place. I have reached the point in my life where I have to start my journey. Time to stop ‘trying to’ live life and live it for once. With my vis...
By: anthonychansa |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Nov 2017
- I was fourteen, So was she. I had been away from school for a while, I didn't bother, and they didn't care. I had heard about her from the freak vine. That she had given it up to a real sleaz...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 01 Oct 2017
- My name is Gary. I have been but buried under the ash of my song long as I can remember. My hands and fingernails split and broken only the given words for meaning. Do you want that too? My n...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 30 Aug 2017
- In my lazy left hand, I grip the dregs of mercy. I can not see her. I can not call or write her. Oh god, she does not even know the sound of my quivering voice. Yet I have spoken her name twe...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Aug 2017
- Didn't take me long to learn the rules of life. Taking and hurting as long as you can kick ass and it's yours. I was fairly literate as a young kid. It came from being accident prone I guess. ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 24 Aug 2017
- Tonight, I vow by the spirals God wove into my fingertips, That if I am not poet perfect. I shall never write these words again. "I love you, Basil. " I stood in the eclipse of a rainbow. I...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 19 Aug 2017
- Some work is far too real. The grand stuff of usefulness. Can you imagine the right hand of God (atom.) As he wandered the fresh reality and gave it names. What kind of insight and sacred crea...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 18 Aug 2017
- (To say this poem is true is relevant to me... alone.) This poem is the truth. My nights are wicked lonely. Just a weird fate and a puppy dog innocence. You might think innocence is free. It ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 17 Aug 2017
- Tender. My hands are tender. My words, My words are broken. The life I have lived is only a memory of sin and broken things. Rage, obsession, fantasy made cruel because of how clever the ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Aug 2017
- I collect nickels. I like the smooth edges. They seem unpretentious. They will never amass a fortune. To buy even a book you need to stack them high. I keep them for sentimental reasons. ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Aug 2017
- I can feel freedom coming, but it doesn't know my name. I want to play in the crush of brown leaves of fall, but I don't think I know the game. I leave my words to hear like a bible, a fool with ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 14 Aug 2017
- Who are you, lady? That you mean that much to me. Are you the goddess of longing.... futility? Are you my quenched thirst? Are you an unfinished poem? Why does your hair hurt me? Why does ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 12 Aug 2017
- Running with the calvary since I was 7 years old. Leaving my sticky blood in the clay seems incomplete. Violence and agony are music only the insane can hear. What a heart pumping fife and drum ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 11 Aug 2017
- Randy Thoughts is my paperboy. He may just be the smartest person I know. You wouldn’t think that someone as smart as Randy Thoughts would be content delivering newspapers for a living. But you don’t...
By: TouchOfGray |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Aug 2017
- I played my guitar, but my fingers started to bleed I let them heal the smallest price to pay But those chords cost and cost I broke her string Then sent a new line up the vine That one broke to...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 02 Aug 2017
- All poets Ask Is any one listening For most none are These are the hidden poems We speak at midnights agony What do we see when we look on our aging back to our box under the sky What drives...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Aug 2017
- Old man. Why do you sing in the snow? ... I fear I could break history with my tears. ... Yes I see, Our lives shatter like thin ice. The will of the river shall run deep. ... Old m...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 23 Jul 2017
- I have been all over the earth. I have left footprints in blood and clay in every nursery rhyme. If I had a chance I would dance on everybody's grave. Don't you think a merry jig is a good rea...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jul 2017
- As you sit there drumming your fingers on your random desktop. I want you to pause a moment and focus. What are you really doing? Think about it. We all do it. We have done it our whole li...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 24 Jun 2017
- Hey, I know you know her. Or you think you know her. If you ever see her. Tell her. Tell her I think of her often. Be clear and tell her. That her hair is the same poem, as when the wind ...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Jun 2017
- Oh, mighty is the blazing sun. Is it not? Imagine...10 billion years ago. This hot thing. Spinning. Alone in the void. Without meaning. Alone. It must be the coldest of things to project like...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jun 2017
- I have seen many things. "Doctor my eyes" don't we all know and can carry that tune? I have seen things that were razor sharp and might cut my feet. I walked carefully those days. I have seen thi...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 31 May 2017
- I pause for a long breath. My hands under tension with the pressure to perform. How silent the written word. Be it joy or anger calamity or furry. It is a whisper in your mind. An illusion uniqu...
By: Time |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 May 2017
- I have forever been a dreamer, and so, I admit, I idealise love in a lot of ways. Sure, I've been hurt, although I prefer not to acknowledge the potentialities, it's almost a certainty that lies in u...
By: sweetangel |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Nov 2016
- So the handsome Chevalier returns Leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake Yet there is one heart he lusts after but cannot have For it is under safeguard Lock and keep The fair maiden plays a to...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Nov 2016
- I am at a loss now and I don't understand what this world is coming to. Since when is it possible to put a dollar amount on a person’s life? My heart is breaking for the families who lost loves o...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Nov 2016
- I work in childcare, a job I love and enjoy very much. No two days are the same and the children definitely keep me on my toes, but I would not change it for the world. I love my job. As you probably ...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2016
- I'm haunted by this notion that one day, in the future, I will no longer care about the things I do now. I'm passionate and obsessive, I think about thoughts and muse about musings whenever I can. Som...
By: philoking |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 May 2016
- Late night talks in bed With you Leave me in awe You hold my hand Telling me I'm beautiful Forever yours Years of ups and downs Fights And the make ups Gains and losses Yet We grow Your smi...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Musings |
Added: 17 Apr 2016
- Where's my rabbit with a clock? Can I follow til I find the hole and drop Far down til reality distorts? A world that makes no sense A realm of uncertainty It may sound childish, but it's more tha...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 05 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: 5|
Added: 04 Mar 2016
- Yes the truth is I'm torn I got a chance to make Make it better than ever You're stuck in a loop Wearing smile of disgrace It's happiness you fake You're with him but miss me Say words s...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Mar 2016
- A feeling or emotion Nothing without devotion Giving to the wrong Searched for, craved Fantasy or a reality Gives you hope Brings us pain Built, destroyed, built again A glory or a sin...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Feb 2016
- Hold the moon in your palm. Remind yourself who you really are. See darkness in the sunshine. See brightness in the dark. Swim in life's oceans, breathe in the wild breeze. Give without expectatio...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Feb 2016
- Night begins to break Day meets it's fate The world begins to sleep Stars start to shine Crickets sing away Restless I've become Thoughts bombard my brain Thoughts of then Thoughts of...
By: Wilz |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Feb 2016
- Sitting here by the river under those heavy grey skies watching it flow to sea, as I see you standing there and it’s not very hard to do as I just close my eyes and see your face, and knowing you’ve h...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Feb 2016
- How in the world did we get here? One moment we were kids with small problems that we deemed the biggest problems in the world, like not wanting to have a bedtime because we were "too old" for that ...
By: littlemunchkin |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Nov 2015
- My mind is like a giant wool ball. Every time I make the effort of unravelling it, I end up with a few persistent knots I never seem able to undo. I am quite stubborn myself and I can’t help overanaly...
By: gawky |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Aug 2015
- Perhaps just the way that you said it Perhaps it was just what I heard Perhaps what you meant Was not what you said Or I just read into your words Why must it be so confusing? Why can’t we say what ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Jun 2015
- I chose to say "I love you" Uncertain how you felt I chose to tell you, not so I Could keep you for myself I chose to say I love you Cradled in your arms Together, lying in your bed My thoughts sec...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 May 2015
- Sitting here once again at my favoured corner table with my back to the wall, and knowing that closing time is soon approaching and I should be leaving this place soon. Yet, I am comfortable and at ea...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 May 2015
- I catch my gaze In silvered glass Watching who I see I tilt my head From side to side Making sure it’s me Is there beauty? Hard to say I know the face so well Reach my hand To one outstretched Flesh m...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 May 2015
- Seldom does one of these nearly write themselves, Like this one did, or one in 2002 that took ten minutes. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0… Found there is a part of me that is a mystery, that has lain there u...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Apr 2015
- I miss you today. For no apparent reason. Just because the sky is murky and grey like your favorite fleece sweater. Not because the phone hasn’t rang in months. Just because hearing it gives me ...
By: 392OhMyGoodness |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Jan 2015
- Over the years, I’ve been asked by quite a few people how to meditate. Each time I mention that I meditate, I’m bound to be asked how to do it. I’ll tell you how I, personally, meditate. Bear in mind,...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jan 2015
- Those nights when you just want to sleep. In this instance, I can't because I don't want to miss my alarm, so can't seem to sleep deeply enough. So I've picked up my phone, and started writing about i...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Dec 2014
- School. Teachers were stupid. Homework was stupid. Everything's stupid when you're a teenager. Especially when they tell you to 'think about thinking'. Sure, some people might find it interesting. B...
By: bunz |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Dec 2014
- Leaning against a rock overlooking the ocean Hearing the waves crashing on the rocks below the occasional breeze blows a salty mist over me tasting it upon my lips. As I quietly watc...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Nov 2014
- Magnetism. It really is inexplicable. I seem to be drawn to the word "inexplicable". It's a good word. Being drawn, magnetised, to someone is a funny thing. One day, you could be walking down the st...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Oct 2014
- This has been weighing on my mind for a few days now... How we as people tend to make snap judgments about those we don’t know and or situations without knowing the full story. Don't you think that...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Jul 2014
- We began our life so long ago, vowing to each other to never let go. We fought with addiction and we won. We fought for our lives together as one. We raised my girls together, but it wasn't alw...
By: StormieDragon |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jul 2014
- I don’t know why I am feeling this way all I know is it isn’t good I feel like running a knife over my wrist Or mixing some medicine with alcohol Maybe even jumping out of a window I kno...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jun 2014
- Who is it you think is hot? Is it the beautiful girl With the legs that go on forever. Or is it, the long haired blond Emily Procter Who plays a smart ballistic specialist, In the television sh...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 May 2014
- Have you ever stopped and just thought about how people actually come to judge you? It’s not always by anything you say verbally sometimes it is by your actions or the way you present yourself. Wh...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 06 May 2014
- To feel each drop of water against my face Brings me peace to know it rains again You cry once more over us And I want to know If these tears are of sadness or joy? I don’t mean to be rud...
By: Lost_Bunny |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 May 2014
- Walking down this dark path Having been here before Trying to find the light But never knowing what it looks like I continue walking Remembering everything We shared Felt Heard ...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 27 Apr 2014
- Wrapping my arms around my knees pulling them close as I curl up ball. Feeling tears running down my face as I try to make sense of all this mess. Not understanding what happened or ...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 26 Apr 2014
- Thoughts, random and ephemeral, stomp through my head. Some are taken note of, some allowed to float off. Ideas happen daily, some acted upon, most tossed aside. Kitten saunters through, always a...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Apr 2014
- It still lives inside of me. Grasping me closer to the edge. I let it control me because I learned to love it. This creature is my beloved sorrow that lives by the pain it causes me. I ...
By: saki1995 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Apr 2014
- I remember when I first read a Maya Angelou poem. I was literally awestruck. I was in high school and we were studying poetry in English class. We studied Norman MacCaig, William Shakespeare, Emily Di...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4|
Added: 04 Apr 2014
- What can I say I'm the youngest Between me and the eldest There are two more. Sissy was first And she was 11 So never really interested, in her new little sister. Then was the first of...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Mar 2014
- Normally being one who believes age is just a number Until I heard of a thirty something year old, Dating a seventeen year old. Something about this just didn't feel right, maybe it's the legal po...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 19 Mar 2014
- The sun is shining, birds are chirping And there is a gentle breeze, Overall it is a beautiful day, However I am surrounded in darkness Feeling scared, unsure and very alone. Going thro...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Mar 2014
- Chapter 61 The Labyrinth So I grab Alare and drag him to the opening. He frowns and begins to resist, when I jump. The rest of the headquarters explodes fiercely behind us. Hopelessness and f...
By: GriffinGarcon |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 11 Mar 2014
- Witches, eh? Those strange folk, running around, worshipping Satan, sacrificing goats, listening to heavy metal, drinking the blood of the virgin and killing without mercy. Boils and pustules, warts a...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Feb 2014
- Snow is drifting lazily down Caressing branches, gathering slowly Standing by the window, Cup of cocoa in my hands I hear the gentle stirring A quiet giggle filters down the stairs I watch the ...
By: little_kitty |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Dec 2013
- I remember our special times, the promises made and shared the moments of passion, soft kisses and touches of being wrapped in each other’s arms, How those memories Warm my heart You make me fe...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 24 Oct 2013
- Have you ever felt so alone That you just wish someone Anybody would notice Something was wrong And offer you a hand? How many times Has your smile been fake When you say I’m okay or I’m fine ...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Oct 2013
- It's that moment where everything is still and silent in your house. It should be pitch black in your room, but it isn't because of the light you keep on in case of bad nightmares. You look up at the ...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Aug 2013
- She looked up towards the bright blue sky, and then closed her eyes as she felt the sun warm her skin. She was finally home. It had been years since she had come back here. Even though she had made a ...
By: Blue |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 26 Jul 2013
- Dreams 12 pass 10 o'clock . I dream of your touch. I dream of your face. I dream of your full red lips. I dream of your kisses midnight I dream of holding your hand. I dream of laughing ...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 16 Jul 2013
- The Trees are Weeping The trees are quietly crying today. They weep for the Ashes, or so they say. From Denmark it was sighted, English Counties have been blighted, It's cursed, they sa...
By: bri54 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 3.3|
Added: 07 May 2013
- When life comes and bites us in the ass. Shattering our psyche like window glass. Feeling alone, we continue trudging along. Emotions broken down, no longer strong. Weight of the world carried on...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 04 May 2013
- "There's probably not a lot you can do." "Stop worrying, you're doing all you can." "She's not going to listen to you." "She's going to hate you for this." "She's never going to trust you aga...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 3.8|
Added: 20 Apr 2013
- On Tuesday, I went out for a walk. I hadn’t been out for three days - I don’t go out at the weekend and couldn’t be bothered on Monday, so went out on Tuesday. I was really just wanting to get out and...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Apr 2013
- Maybe I can't tell you what's bugging me, Maybe I can't describe it, Maybe I'm bad with words and can't tell you, Maybe you just have to wait and see . Was up 'til two last night-- Certai...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Mar 2013
- You remember the phone calls, All those late nights, (for you, not me) I wrote all those poems, You, all those comments. It wasn't a long relationship, Not by adult standards, We laste...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 12 Mar 2013
- Water glistened on the pavement. April never lied about its love for rain. But today seemed unusually humid and the fog rolled in as the clock struck five passed six. Peter cursed as the vines from th...
By: Kachme |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 3.8|
Added: 25 Feb 2013
- Flowing through this pen in such a rhythm, I wonder how these words stay preserved on paper. For in my mind they have faded faster than they appeared, and the picture they once painted is no longer cl...
By: LauraToepf |
Category: Musings |
Score: 3.6|
Added: 26 Feb 2013
- This is not a happy one, or even a thoughtful one, this is me opening up and exposing the truth and the pain and I am not going to be thinking at all while writing this... if I do, I will not be able ...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 08 Feb 2013
- Days seem long, nights have no end Thoughts, words, images of maybe Restless agony, silence, a damn built No voice to scream out the pain It overtakes common sense Covers, veils, shuts out a...
By: Isadora |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Feb 2013
- "When I said good morning, I was lying. I was truly thinking of how I might quit waking up. He pointed out how selfish it would be to kill myself, so I keep waking up..." Flyleaf, Much Like Falling ...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Feb 2013
- Stepping stones build a path Across the ocean, against storms Gray skies open as doves seek A place to perch, rest and sleep Winds cannot detour their flight Even if these birds must lea...
By: Isadora |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Feb 2013