Category: Poems

My Place By: Lana Bowles

MY PLACE BY: LANA BOWLES These words bled my soul the wreckage and pain. These thoughts take control and leave me weary and drained. These emotions see the within a violent torrid sea a crippled fading portrait the nothing that is me. This body cut,…

My place By: Lana Bowles

MY PLACE BY: LANA BOWLES These words bled my soul the wreckage and pain. These thoughts take control and leave me weary and drained. These emotions see the within a violent torrid sea a crippled fading portrait the nothing that…

Peace Behind Bars By: Megan Smith

*Peace Behind Bars By: Megan Smith* Peace Behind Bars is not hard to find when your demons keep you up at night. When voices whisper to you shackles, handcuffs way to tight. You miss your family… no mail call and…

Any Way/ Just WoW/ and The Good Life By: Tremayne Franics

ANYWAY BY: TREMAYNE FRANCIS   People are unreasonable, Illogical and self centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends and enemies.…

Fire By: Sean “Twig” Follett

Poem By Sean “Twig” Follett   That fire, Which never burns out, Which yet burns low, Which Flickers out,   Yet there remains always beneath the ashes. Embers Which smolder and wait, for one to bring, Dry twigs and wood.…

The Good Life/ Just Wow By: Tremayne Francis

The Good Life Strangely, a good life seems to be within reach of everyone! No one can tell you what the good life is for you, but there are some guideposts. What makes most people happy in life is good…

Our Father I Know Your Watching Me By: Lana Bowles (Winner of October 2016 Poem Contest) Won $25 of Gifts

Our father I know your watching me the way I live on the streets hustling but I’m not in peace. Why don’t you check out my childhood when my father beat on my mother, he was no good. She tried…

Far Away Thoughts By: Lana Bowles (Winner of Dec 2016 Poem Contest) Won $25 of Gifts

Since the day I first met you my life has really changed. Some things I’ve put  in order somethings I’ve rearranged. I’ve put you in the middle and built my dreams around. Someone who means so much to me the…

The Eagle By: Tremayne Francis

As the eagle soars In the sky of blue I wonder what it sees Far off in a distant view As I look at it It’s a beautiful sight It is majestic With its graceful flight I would wonder If…

Take Time By: Tremayne Francis

Take time to think, It is your source of power Take time to read, It is the foundation of wisdom Take time to play It is the secret of staying young Take time to be quiet It is the opportunity…

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