Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 7 - Poetry

Poetry

1 min

Bestiality at Bedtime

Ellie Ransom

Little girls
We are Locked Up

Our only value in our golden hair
And wrinkle-free skin ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Emotions

Caleb Siebach

Life's a journey
All in all
Ups and downs
Climbs and falls

Often my mind wanders ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

One Choice to Change the World

Sylva Murtinova

We all wonder at times, how we would change the world.

But for some of us we simply don't ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Words

Emily Stumpo

Words on paper
meaning within letters.
deciphering descriptions.

Nonsense metaphors ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

It’s The Little Things

Eva Whipple

It's the little things that shine—
The tiny birds hopping or small buds
Peeking through sidewalk ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

The Unspoken Beauty of Libraries

Jamaica Jones

There is a beautifully unspoken presence in libraries. It is an immediate sense of home. A calm ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Roaming Genius

Elizabeth Prickett

I know when I've caught
the roaming genius about my garden wall,
and asked her in to dine ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Blackness

Xiangkai ZHU

I woke up from my dream to see a flash of blackness appearing in the corner. I didn't notice and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Bumper Crop

Grace Lenart

Pome and human
spawned from seed.
Safe in germination
an embryonic refuge.
Phototropism ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

she does not like to speak about feminism

Skyla Stapelmann

she does not like to speak about feminism
because she loves men
because she has never felt the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

All I Cannot Hear

Asia Whitaker

[ a poem about being hard of hearing ]

i cannot hear the ticking of clocks.
i cannot hea ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Musings

Karli Anderson

Being absent in your own mind,
We hone this skill to an expertise.
Always brimming painfully ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Transcendentalist's Morning

Rose Graff

The sun beats down and heats the parking lot asphalt
On a sunny California day,
That makes the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Growing Pains

Devin Glenn

I drink from yesterday
and taste the tangible tang of nostalgia,
that golden age feeling. ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Greene&Fulton

Allysa Warling

Why can't I write the feeling
of this city?
The floors are warped and the paint is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Zombies

Sam Susan

I want to move to a small town.
Somewhere up in the mountains, with thin air and thinne ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Good Day

Zechariah Combs

It was going to be a good day,

my Horoscope said so.

The sun was out and the air was ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

riptide

Maddelyn Renstad

And I dream about the safety
Your presence
Creates
an armour
or a guard
so I don't ... [+]