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

Poetry

2 min

Space Pirate

Jasper Gillard

The constellational shapes filled the black void,
small to the naked eye,
but gigantic ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Orpheus

Nicole Arch

It's the way your words are melody
And your silences, siren songs, luring
Eurydice from the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

to be as a tree

Jared Brockbank

sharing breath
with passersby
blind to the beauty

the abundant life
the resolute ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

ekphrastic

sarz savage

"i was on fire for you
where did you go
i could've died for you
but you brought in the cold
i ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Plea To A Disregarding Lover

McKenna Lowther

Time
It's all I ask for
Time
You think it's easily given, but
Time
Requires ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Ambivalence

Anna Sze

A long-lost hero,
Probably, my long-lasting anti-hero.
An insecure hopeful mind,
Stings ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The One Second

Cristina Crescenzo

You can make a choice
In the moment you have no qualms about it
Just for a second
It's clea ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Oh, Covid

Joyee Woo

Oh, Covid. You sudden, mysterious being.
Your arrival is so conspiratorial
The name of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Parrot in a Cage

Adelaide Fung

‘You should not do this! You should not do that!'
Mommy shouted loudly at the cage,
a little ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

As We Rest

Dallin Fairbanks

As we rest in a hammock,
the maraca snake slithers past
at the speed of nonchalance,
and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

primary

Katherine Rackliffe

I am in love with yellow
bright sunshine that beams on my face
I am a mere speck of dust
in ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

The Perfectionism Puzzle

Anna Krzymowski

Dear Father, how I want to do
The things I promised thee,
To valiantly proclaim the truth ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Acorn in my Pocket

Avery Lloyd

A few days after the breakup, I'm walking home from school
My hands thrust deep in my coat ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Tears

Alex West

Another reads what their lover has written,
As a train passes by,
Leaving tears on a page ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Problem Fairy

Timothy Jafek

If you have an awful problem
That you can't solve in your head,
Then you'll write it on a ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Growing Up

Kayley Smoot

e a sunflower Said My Mother,
I am only a dandelion seed drifting through the wind ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The One

Victoria Bailey

The babe awoke with no cry, no startle—
Dormant, wide-eyed, desperate and idle.
The nurse set ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Anxiety

Lauren Allen

Why is falling asleep so hard when I'm already
so exhausted and I wish my bed weren't so ... [+]