Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 8 - Poetry

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Permission to Be Human

Hannah Hayden

When I woke up gravity was gone.
I floated to the kitchen, blender uncapped
my smoothie entered ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Remus

Tad Decker

O Romulus my brother dear,
I fought by thee for time unknown,
I breathe the air of life no ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

5 am, in a small town

Lilli Vehikite

The mayflies kiss the glass
Of restaurant windows
Clinging to it

They mirror the fog ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Poem of the Lost

Bethany Sycamore

Alone
Is where the Mind and Heart
Wrestle with the icky, sticky
The dark and lost desires ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Miss You Friend

JT Lock

Where did you go?
Things were going so well
I don't know if we'll meet again
Nothing sure ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Painted Stories

Scotlyn Turner

Painted Stories

The world’s story is an intricate
painting, a mix of yellows and blues ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Spare

Brittney Hatchett

Here stands my brother’s monument.
(The elder of us two)
The gleaming stone that bears his ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Distress

Julia Egbert

I desire
to determine devil from deity
People don't act with dignity
and I can't ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

An Undervalued Educator

Alyssa Goodsell

An essential worker,
that’s what I’ve become
Amidst in COVID
Skyrockets to the sun
No ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

That Hair

Jenna Palacios

He loved her
in her snowy white,
blue eyes, bridal flowers,
and 80s hair. That hair, ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Hallelujah

Giselle Hajir

I never understood those lines about the naked woman on the roof:
roofs are already perfectly ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Drowning

Victoria Kuo

the water slips across my feet
like a blanket.

they held my hand,
protecting me from ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Do You Ever Fall in Love With Strangers?

Rodelynn Yamba

Observation: the freckles that map her body are as limitless as the stars in the night sky ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

yet

Dahlia Breiter

loved to read, yet I always have been ripped from the pages-
choosing oblivious eyes without a ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Get Up

Grace Tanner

Get up
You try so hard to ignore it
The whisper in your head
Because you know if you heed ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Love and loss and disorder and Jehovah too

Kelsey Vita

My father hands me a small box when I arrive for Thanksgiving break. It is from my grandmothe ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Soon It Wanes

Elizabeth Hick

Pain never lasts,
Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

What a lovely family

KA YAN YEUNG

Just a winter working night,
Away from the city, away from the light
For sixty years, working ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Permission to Be Human

Remus

5 am, in a small town

Poem of the Lost

I Miss You Friend

Painted Stories

The Spare

Distress

An Undervalued Educator

That Hair

Hallelujah

Drowning

Do You Ever Fall in Love With Strangers?

yet

Get Up

Love and loss and disorder and Jehovah too

Soon It Wanes

What a lovely family