Poetry

276 works

Poem·Jaia Papitz

Present-in-tense

Today, the metaphor will be hauled to the plaza
It served its time in the dungeons, with plebe
For a mindless crime

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

En Route

Toward me I depart
With unwalked steps
With steps I say, else won’t be said for now.

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Poem·Brianna Louise

Positivity

I feel that it's time for something positive
But do many positive moments feel bitter sweet?
Perhaps it's time to acknowledge

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Poem·Brianna Louise

Cold Hearts

sitting here in desperation
gazing down from my apartment window in the sky
waiting for the world to calm my frustration

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Poem·Alex Mascarenhas

Heaven and Hell

Love, I will go with you
Wherever you’re off to
Some say that you descended from cloud nine

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Forwardless

She stood up & kissed me ravenously
Would you kiss me like 10% of that when I’m in the coffin, said I
Let me rot on the hill top

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

am

It’s six
am
The morning is about to unravel the day

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

poaching or the voting season

The mortals are voting their way out of it & Atlas keeps holding the pebble, on a rocky beach...
Zeus is inebriating the Mary while her son is playing on the cross.
Hit the ballot with a pin: Yes, No - Maybe isn't

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

End of…

If I were to come to the end of the world
Would you be there, waiting? Hungry? Unaware
That you are feeding your dying offspring with my tit

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Poem·Jaia Papitz

Unfriend

I just unfriended myself
To enchant my detractors
Jubilating at my clicked self loath

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Poem·Alex Mascarenhas

The Drowning

Hmm... I like your walk, I love watching it
The thickening’s on, the ticking is down
Tick-tack... tick is green; tick-tack... tack is brown

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