Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 6 - Poetry

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Rumor

Amelia Loeffler

Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.
There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Obsessed

Luke Johnson

Do you even care?
The question which wears
On my devoted mind.
How can you be so kind? ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min

"O"

Benjamin Rice

o fig, fist of flowers, o ostiole entered

as a wasp might enter it, pollinate it knows
not ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Still left

Maggie Salinger

You've lost force.
You've lost feeling.
It is left only

to the heart
through its ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Shades of Sapphic

Jackie Smith

"And yet what purple hours one can snatch from that grey,
slowly-moving thing we call Time!" – ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

puppet museum visit

Osny Neto Zaniboni

I walk around the voided saloon
peeping the puppet museum for life
in vain: there's nothing ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Bird Soup

Vera Soltes

Have you met the bird at the end of the rainbow?
I heard it gives great advice.
Every problem you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Currency

Lorielle Bouldin

I used to crave money.
I used to crave the air of affluence that teased,
The arrogance of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I wonder If black children

Ahmi Aghedo

I wonder if black children
are tender headed because of ghost follicles
rooted long long ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Holi the festival of several shades

Avinash Devineni

Holi of hypocrites

I use tears of abandoned....
Blue is mah color...
I play Holi ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Traveling in the Obon Festival

Danni Zhou

Never mind the flying daggers, the billow of crows
tugging the glazed horizon. Songs of witches ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

ex-important person

Marissa Ho

do you still think of me
the way I think of you?
a lost friend, a fallen fate,
a far-off ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

“Dear Sestina”, whispered the Fog and its Flower

Lovina Woo

It is a sweet night, with good sleep,
That I have been a year
Not hopping in the dream, but ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

lavender menace

Lauren Flors

there's this girl who visits me
i call her Gwen.
i don't know where she came from
but there ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

The Last Week of May, and June, July, August

Megan Friedman

when the morning still
brought mist and sweatshirts
hot coffee in mugs
of every shape and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Strangers

Ashley Sipe

I imagine how my life would be
If we never met
And we stayed strangers
What if we neve ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Rollerskating Scab

Isabella Piacentino

Blood, bile, my shin chimes,
Bone ghost-clangs under grapefruit
Bump. Once, I was blind. ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Quantum Reality

Halona Dantes

I love it when I see your eyes basking,
Not in the morrow of the sun's omniscient light,
But ... [+]