Monthly Poetry Contest

The Swing…

It had seen many years of laughter, tears and of grazed shins,
The old...

I'm held on the line.
The heart groans and whines.
Silence deafens.
Then unbinds....

Of Trials and Forgiveness…

Eternally alone and vacant thro forever past, knowing not what one...

A promise,
like a glass
It can shatter,
It won’t last

But if you
give...

The eyelids droop.
Sleep it calls.
The landscape changes.
The mind? It falls.

...

Given every ounce of energy and even blood
Can't do more but I would if I could
Would cross...

Born in Philadelphia in the year of 78
The world of basketball was to witness a great
The LA...

Where is your key?
Is it a key to your future?
Life,Love, Ideas, Dreams
Have A Key...

Dear Diary,
I'm calling again. The forbidden number that she left...
hidden under ashes of...

My story told
is one to behold
bold fearless
not seemingly cold

my story told...

Shana Aubrey Harris
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREETING,
albeit eleven days early
Countless years...

the brawn of small clouds
camped in sunshine; scudding a deep blue
as the Sun tanks the...

as I conflate the Theory of Me
I slumber in bins and roast my ingots in foil and ambergris.
...

i awoke to shed water, then back again to bed with my fuzzy relief
drooping from my sleepy...

My mind is like a cage
Filled with thoughts
Overthinking
Every thought
In my...

I’m surrounded by people
Only I feel so alone
A world where my thoughts overtake
Every...

I read between the lines when we discuss the depths of our futures
no not together
we aren’t...