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

Poetry

1 min

Sea of Clouds

Jessa Alfajardo

I'm off somewhere that's also home
where I once thought I'd be alone
Life brought me here ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Let’s be like Children

Alisa Sytnyk

Let's be as innocent as children,
As kind, as truthful as they are
Let's have the confidence ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Blueblood

Charlotte Chiu

Glory to the Highest
A little girl was born.
Ventured into the world,
To the best parents ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Solar Aura

Ruth Arce

The earth dawns, the sun begins to grow light
the amber drifts away from the night,
... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Colors you can't see

Hunter Phillips

A moonbeamed alley and cat
of Blues, singing to wharf rats
in heartful plenty and lonely ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

bodies

Ezra Wegner

I imagine the hands that molded me.
dust and red clay into
child, into partner.
brushed ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

phantom feelings

Max Carter

let's stay here awhile
just you and me
you don't want to go back out there
into a world of ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Of unexpected contortions in foreign lands

Laura Ruiz Ortega

My tongue clumsily crashes against the cathedral ceilings of my palate,
It helplessly tries to ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Man Made

Cecil May

Gabriel sits beside me and asks if the pain in my chest is worth losing god for.
He doesn't ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The World Beyond Possibility

Brennan Rose

We look at the stars
As they twinkle and shimmer above our heads
Forever a reminder of the ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Dragged Out, Floating In-between

Madeline Chandler

I.

When you are first pulled out
to that place that fades from sand to cement
it's ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Mouse Lost in a Maze

Alexis Kniker

In this crazy world that we're living.
Every day the stress begins again.
You wear you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Open Wounds

Aliyaa Pathan

distant laughter spills through open windows,
staining my bedroom floor some shade of before ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Dearly Beloved, Dearly Departed

Josephine Taiwo

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here on this glorious day,
To join these two in holy matrimony ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Stroll to a Creek

Katie Brimhall

Crack snap slush, lines cross over cracked ice and meet at rock
Half melted, falling to chilled ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Control

Lena Smith

Remedy can be a tricky word.
A remedy can relieve you,
But keep you stagnant,
Unable to ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Care

Chérie Miel

to Mama & Papa

Mum can't hear
She needs care
Dad can't see
He needs peace
Mum ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Want, Therefore I Am

Jeff Oro

I want to love you, my darling.

You, in all your dauntless independence,

your infinite ... [+]