Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 4 - Poetry

Poetry

1 min

Dear god

Theo Van Hof

Dear god,

Or is it Todd?
Or Bob?
Or... Shulad?

Okay, that last one I made up ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Dance of death

Luv Monga

Would there still be hunger
when there's no one to eat?

Would there still be sufferings ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

My new profile photo

Tianhao Liu

I changed my profile photo yesterday.
It's a photograph taken in the Central Park, NYC. ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

As the Storm Passes

Abbey Helterbran

Blue has come to visit my hometown,
The unwelcome visitor leaves bookmarks on the worn ... [+]

Poetry

Nature 1 min

The Gardener

Braden Robison

"Sometimes," he said, trimming a bud,
"You have to interfere.
But every other time,
you simply ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Where I'm From

Mack Fairchild

I come from a place where kids line the cinderblock walls,

afraid to step on the lava in the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Wrongs

Keturah McQuade

Topsoil crumbles in my hands.
I am digging, parting the ground like Moses
only I see no Fathe ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Trapped yet Free in the Cosmos

Nathaniel Sapp

Forever far away
in a feverish, fiery, eternal expanding cosmos
bathed in deep, dense, viscous ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Edges Are Imagined

Allegra KIng

Crotchety winter days are on their way
and in the air is an urgency
to start making friends ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Velvet

Sanah Singhi

Under her smooth skin,
lie her flaws,
under the soft skin,
lies her broken soul.
He ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Land of Poker Cards

Jane Szeto

In the Land of Poker Cards,
There lives citizens of fifty four.
Spade, Heart, Tile and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

there's a deep void out there

Sammie Chaitovitz

there's a deep void out there
one that people think they can see
but most times they can't ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Music

Céline Taylor

Hit me
Kick me
Concuss me
Bludgeon me
Make me feel what I can't
Make me feel what I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Am Me

Abi Barbu

I am from oranges, tart and juicy,
with a smell that long lingers under fingernails.
I am from ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Listen underneath

Heide Baron

Feet sweep between dark tar and white lines,
the streets reel with soft cries.
Thousands of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Memorium Pantoum

Rachael Lee

The children here play in sand here
the low tide safe enough for their parents to
let the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Restoring an Empty Pit to Fullness

Abigail Pikett

Does an open-pit sit and wonder,
with all the emptiness it contains,
what its existence would ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

ache

Sabina Haque

I stand,
feet positioned shoulder-width apart,
back straight like a Chicago skyscraper. ... [+]