A weary traveler, battered by snow and wind, pleads for shelter at a stranger’s door. Her haunting voice carries the weight of a woman’s
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How to Make Your Poems NFTs
Poetry in the Digital Age: Examining NFT Poems How to make your poems and NFTs: Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have recently exploded as a hot
36 More Types of Poems, Forms or Formats
Here are 36 types, forms, and formats for poems. Some of these are obscure, and some of them are very common. They are from all over world and many different languages and cultures. If you’re a poet or a writer you are driven to be better than you already are, and many want to go…
The Last Road Trip by Megan Denese Mealor
Megan Denese Mealor echoes and erases in her native land of Jacksonville, Florida. A survivor of bipolar disorder, she incorporates her kaleidoscopic emotions and manic fire into her writing. Her poetry and short stories have been published worldwide, most recently in Spillwords, Ginosko Literary Journal, and The Stray Branch.
Secrets Beneath His Chest by Miss Verse
Miss Verse is a professional dancer, artists and poet. You can read more of her work on Twitter at @MissVerse_
Fly Away by Esha Jaiswal
A soul made of words nestling in a mortal body – Esha and her incandescent love for poems is ancient and sacrosanct. She has crocheted her irenic words into fine fabric of love, cosmos, power of SHE and mirabilia. Come and celebrate poetry through her words and behold them bloom in sequestered splendour
Suspenseful Eyes by adivayeatts
Shame by Anne Lost
Anne is the pen name of a lost poet. She loves working out with weights and words. She writes about sexy corsets, darkness, and everything in between
Inanimate Objects by Louis Gallo
Four volumes of Louis Gallo’s poetry, Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash and Clearing the Attic, are now available. Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? and Leeway & Advent will be published soon. His work appears in Best Short Fiction 2020. A novella, “The Art Deco Lung,” will soon be published in Storylandia.
Journey Towards the Star by Herb Shippey
Herb Shippey is retired from full-time teaching at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA, but still teaches American Literature and freshman writing part-time. His book Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist
Fruit-Flavored Marshmallows by David Lohrey
David Lohrey is from Memphis. He graduated from UC, Berkeley. His poems can be found in EWR, Terror House, Spillwords, and Dreich Magazine. His fiction appears in Eclectica, Storgy, and Literally Stories. David’s first collection of poetry,
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Her Other Half by Tricia McCallum
My poems are about commonplace things, but they are not necessarily simple. The abstract never drew me. I don’t think in those terms. The day-to-day world and all its supposedly mundane detail provides me more than I need. To me it’s not mundane. To me, it is magic.
A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their…
Beneath These Boards by Michael Thomas Ellis
I’ve laid by her for ten years now
beneath these creaking boards
an axe between my long-gone eyes
a spectacle of gore.