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Waiting for Peach Blossoms
sit in the doorway peach trees foretelling their bloom last year’s jam on toast * I wait for the peach trees to bloom. The buds are swelled and fuzzy, a soft pale green.
By Natalie Wilkinsona day ago in Poets
patience is all
patience pushing through provocation and pain with poise passively plastered on unperturbed faces papering over the cracks formed
By ali2 days ago in Poets
Poem of a Grieving Mother
I feel a bit like a fraud Reading those poems about grief Because despite how many people I’ve lost I still can’t quite believe
By Emma Mark3 days ago in Poets
"Safe Space?"
Link to the Challenge: I found it on a sign in a rough part of the city (actually not too rough), with a broken QR code
By Kendall Defoe 4 days ago in Poets
Eight
“Eight,” I announce when Heidi asks, “What’s today’s number?” Everyone else is confused. But I know she means the digit
By Tina D. Lopez2 days ago in Poets
there is a time to write plainly
I am not one to speak plainly - sometimes, I repeat and ramble, or talk in circles before reaching the point - and much like the way I speak,
By Alexandria Stanwyck6 days ago in Poets
El-Roi
I think I do owe you an apology I didn't see because I didn't wish to see I focused on images that were groggy Allowed laziness to lay a mat for me
By Harydo Neon3 days ago in Poets
Arms. Content Warning.
I hold myself at an arms length from emotion until they, like furious waves, crush me taking me under their tide and holding me down.
By Reece Beckett6 days ago in Poets

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