There is always someone who arrives when the day gives up. They bring no sun, only a star, a flame small enough to teach the darkness that it does not...Read more

Greetings family! How have you been? We are navigating through a difficult phase these days but we are sure we'll bounce back very soon. There's a...Read more

Advice from an Owl: Keen of sound is key when perched upon a tree; ears may see what the eyes miss. Spread wings in flight to soar; know what is b...Read more

No one gives a damn about a poem until they need a poem — Omotara James. No one writes a poem because they want ...Read more

Let's read this poem together. Where Dust Never Collects by William Bortz when I say love, I mean I wait at the door for you to arrive; I...Read more

A dried well sits along a sugarcane mill, on a stretch of land encompassing three dialects. You see kids rolling tires and tubes, medieval games in ...Read more

I am not meant to be consumed in sips. Swallow me whole.

The old, large black walnut in our yard— I recall—must have grown with God's first words. Before my grandparents gave us the house, Lightning struck ...Read more

Read this short extract of a poem with us: The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that thei...Read more

The poor child groaned while his mother moaned. ''Ah, he's possessed, Oh, he's been bewitched'', Superstition bemoaned. To the witchdoctor she sped a...Read more

It's my baby step into adult life. A flower that keeps withering from worry, while a bee lingers nearby, its hum refusing to fade. At the edge of the...Read more

love if only you knew how reckless my love is. in the midst of a storm i will become wind and i will carry you in my arms until we reach the quiet. n...Read more

I will carry the burden On shoulders made of straw; Whatever threatens you Will settle on my braided core. It is but a small thing ...Read more

How am I this reckless in the kitchen light eating a mango, the size of joy, so sweet I forgive the day’s dull hours and emptiness...Read more

let's stack porcelain like nesting dolls until we crash overtaken by grief love

Greetings family! Take these words, •porcelain •stack •crash •grief Build a poem of 13 lines out of these words. We are always excited to read yo...Read more

Father, please wake up and stay Don't stop raising me

I've thought about it, this insistent body of sound, so sharp the way its light enters the cement of the night like a nail, Here I am in a field o...Read more

What is the poem? A flightless butterfly: New to the idea of flight, still damp from the growth of wings: prepared for more than caterpillar things. ...Read more

Read this poem with us titled, What is the Poem? ******************* What is the poem? Just the soul singing in its box. And if there is no soul? T...Read more