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

Poetry

1 min

Ten Years and Fifteen Days

McKenna Lacap

"My love is dead."
Her eyes were red
As she told her tale of woe.
"He disappeared
And ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Everlasting Love

Charlotte Fitzgerald

He is warm weather in February,
The sun enveloping me in a hug,
Ten thousand heavy, buzzing ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Moomoo and I

Coco Lee

They walked along the trail
in their own rhythm
even the flies landed on their faces
I ... [+]

Poetry

3 min

alternate universe in which i'm a psychotic blonde

Naomi Ovrutsky

I win the science fair, not with a volcano but a geyser spewing out marshmallow fluff. I am awarded ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

just a moment

Timothy Richardson

if i could hold you
for just a moment
if i could feel you in the night
for just a moment ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The didn’t even think to salt the roads

Blaine Purcell

I woke up and it's snowing in Greensboro,
as if when I woke I kept dreaming;
The sky is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You

Abigail Connelly

Now, had you ever cared to inform me
Of what it means to waste careless years
Wishing that I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Queen of Hearts

Enya Xiang

Today I put up a Missing Person sign,
Hands clutching face by the landline.
Missing: not of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Unforgettable

Ellen Zhang

The day I get my diagnosis,
I do not tell anyone. I drive
and drive down 16 Mile, ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Who Am I to You: My Love

Jilliana Hall

I am fragile
Soft and untouched
Falling without fear into your ocean made of glass

The ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Mourning

Bianca Stupka

Mourning feels like opening an empty drawer
And weighing the hollow space.

Mourning tastes ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

it is What it is

Barrett Bolton

It is the end of what has been, a new exploration of what is,
What it means to be normal, free ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

In Search of Chiropractor

Tessa Wilkinson

My posture is god awful.

All day I sit and
I stare
with my eyes downcast and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

1967 Nickel

Emily Topness

Someone else's change is in my wallet

The silver Monticello is only a weathered outline ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Forest Fire

Caroline Palasz

If he felt anything coming back here
It certainly isn't written on his face
Or that stupid ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

i am the moon

Sophie Spruce

shimmering sphere,
so well-rounded,
gleams above.
we watch,
comment on her beauty, ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Plumeria

Hope Mitchell

The surrounding air stirs
cool
With a coming storm
but
The plumeria flower still ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Monday Blues

Antonio McLauchlan

I wake to the sky so dark and gloom
As the rain trickles down to make Earth bloom
As I sit ... [+]