Act I: At some point, your house was a refuge from you. I remember our shared delight the day you brought the virtual reality headset…
Posts published in “Literary”
Evergreen
By JOSEPH FRUG on November 2026
I rub my fingertips across each other, trying to dispel the pine sap’s stick. I succeed in dispersing its adhesion across my hands. The decrease…
rare birds sing your face is bathed in a yellow glow oat milk hot chocolate or maybe mint tea sits cooling in our favorite mug…
I will give you rest
By CORALLUS MEEKS on November 2026
Yearning for you I lost myself I worry in finding me you found you were lost yourself perhaps you unfurled me hoping to find a…
All my problems trace back to you. Remember that time you walked towards me, cutting off the sun? I looked up and I just knew…
In Passing
By THEO CUSKER on October 2026
I give you this one thought, And though you knew it not, I saw you passing by, Upon a spangled sky. A trail of colors…
Shriekings!
By STAR LAROCCA on October 2026
A land hero may just be for chance; a whaling hero spends several months above exalted tedium. If the ship was a vast city’s orchestra…
The Babies
By KASS UY on October 2026
With elements from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Lights up; JEROME, MONICA, TOMMY, and RAVEN are sitting down on the stage wearing bibs. PARENT walks offstage while…
It’s About a Rock
By JOSEPH FRUG on October 2026
For lifetimes the rock had sat upon the cliff. He had watched as the once distant edge crept closer, as the soil eroded. He watched…
The Magic Mattress Man
By ELSA WAGNER on October 2026
Frankly, Bram didn’t particularly like mattresses. They were volatile things; even a high-end mattress would turn bumpy and rock-hard within a mere decade. Bram reflected…
Haunted
By ELSA WAGNER on October 2026
I’ve found, throughout my time as a photographer, that people see what you tell them to look for. A shot of a corner in an…
Grandfather Clock
By ELEANOR CLARK on October 2026
Grandfather Clock ticks away in the parlor. His polished cherry cabinet gleams in the sunlight that shines through the east window. His hands chase each…
Winter in September
By DHILAN SETHUPATHY on October 2026
It’s winter in September, Who’s calling my name? It’s you, it’s me, I long to be Wild and untamed. Yet I’m impinged by a tether…
Spilling (Holding A Lantern Without A Flame)
By CHRISTOPHER ERRICHELLO on October 2026
Like this, can’t you continue? Holding your deluge of thoughts within you? For a poet’s craft is so praised Because it takes true feeling, shouts…
Under Your Canopy
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
The leaves crunch, As the sky darkens, Clouds roll in As lightning flashes, The earth quakes, And the wind roars. But do not stir, For…
The Winds Blowing from over the Hill
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
The winds blow from over the hill It’s like the world has gone still Even after using makeup from your chin to your forehead This…
The Sensory Poem
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
I see tears falling as the smell of flowers blooming, I hear cries for hope but the coldness takes home. I touched the grass hoping…
The damned apple
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
irresistible and bittersweet bursting on my tongue Whose taste betrays my scent of youth withering in rot under a sky suddenly stripped of grace Thus…
Content warning: self-harm Do you ever feel lost? It’s okay. I do, too. My heart hangs low like the apple from the tree that is…
Little blue boy
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
Little blue boy, I have always liked brown Chocolate eyes or the dirt on my shoes I feel your weight on my chest It envelops…
If An Always
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
If an “always” is offered to you, If an always is asked of you, If an always is, in a moment that is almost as…
i sit aloft the top of the hill under the cherry tree a glance in my direction i open and flip to my page the…
Blood, Sweat and Tears
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
Blood Your words cut like knives you don’t see the deep wounds they make cutting so deep dark blood flows down dripping on the white…
Autumn, the Cold Fear
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
The children running, Fear stricken eyes everywhere, Black sky all around, Pumpkins grinning evil smiles, Terrors left, right, up and down.
Autumn Everywhere
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
Crisp winds stir the air, Auburn leaves drift down slowly, Autumn everywhere.
Anonymous Poetry
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
How great it is to be anonymous! That way I will not be synonymous, With any person, place, or hippopotamus, Oh! How great it is…
Poem about AI
By ANONYMOUS on October 2026
Every day, i tell it everything. My secrets, my fears, my dreams. It never laughs. It never judges. It knows me better than it appears.…