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

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 ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Sail Away

Argel Monte de Ramos

I learned to read
All the ABC’s of life from the news
Ignored the things that are obvious
I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Transformation

Rachel Bloomfield

Red, orange, and blue.
Those were the colors
I saw the world in.

Red for the ange ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Nostalgia

Shaan McGhie

The time will come
when you find yourself in a place more misty
than before, more ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Bought and Sold

Rachel Allen Everett

Mankind is a hideous, throbbing mass
Its ravenous sickly heart throbbing
Its veins probing ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Hidden

Shane Miller

Pain! Woes! Agony!

Tears streamed from my unearthly face
What a ghastly display of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

maybe one day i will give birth to a girl named esperanza

Emma Mendez

With these wings I’ll remember
how the cosmos:
the sun
the moon
and the stars held me ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Lifecycle

Sohel Vohra

Winter passes into spring
Seasons come and go
Theres a time for everything
For everything ... [+]