Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 3 - Poetry

Poetry

1 min

Those that Make Me Whole

Alina Taratorin

I feel mad.
Mad for pain and damage
likely to stay forever, and irreversible
Pain too ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Chain

Rebecca Billings

I will not care
if you do not love me.

We have already
sat on the hill together
in ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Date Night

Kyle Tanner

The credits roll
And you’re strewn across the cushions.
I know you’re actually asleep—
Not ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

O Israel, let God prevail

Madison Banfield

O Israel, let God prevail.
Let those instant followers and the twittering
Birds break you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Recompense

Maya Hoeft

I have found you
can find love for anyone
who shows their naked soul.
Every bare rattled ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

He That Endure

Mason Maxfield

A beast of the sky
Didst sour ever high
And spotted well
The stirring gale

With ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Mountain Top Days

Lyndee Holyoak

The weather is perfect.
Things fall in line.
Every hair is in place
And we’re dancing in ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

W-O-Men

Chelsea Brennan

He is the first man I let my guard down around
My shoulders relax down my back and my breath ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Ode to the Hallmark Original Movie ‘Window Wonderland’

Anna Wright

Ha, okay.
A Hallmark original,
Usually just dribble all
Ravaged up and packaged in a bland ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Our Pollen Potential

Rebecca Millett

I kissed a bee, but she didn't like it.

I pulled away and she did too,

Stinging my ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Street of Dreams

Anastasia Repouliou

How could you know the sunlit afternoons
The glaring white of that low-hanging sky
The ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Here's a Love Poem to the Songwriter Driving Home

Darius Atefat-Peckham

Here’s a Love Poem to the Songwriter Driving Home

I try to explain it. How
each time you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Old Folk's Home

Rebecca Varnell

They moved to a home
in the shadow of the mountains—
true to form for the mountain of a man ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Only Reason

Silvyr Dragøn

The only reason I can see
To down the spoon of sweet honey
Is to calm the ache of a sore ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

profaning you

Mia Lucia

the love poems roll out of this machine
endless,
and full offense--
hackneyed.

you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Family

Vivian Ounjian

The cherry red lipstick sticks on her lips
She drinks her coffee and imprints the cup
His ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Sketchbook Upon The Stars

Minh Nguyen

With my art tools
I lay my head upon the short bright-green grass
looking up to the night sky ... [+]

Poetry

3 min

Grief

Savannah Nicole

The sky king created the heavens,
With a blank canvas he began
squid’s ink and dragon’s ... [+]