Lit Poetry – Page 2

Jul 5, 2023Aug 16, 2023 by: Nicole Burton

Learning to Swim

I grow up fatherless
A brother who didn’t sign
Up for the role…

Jun 28, 2023Jun 28, 2023 by: Beth Portnoy

My work is not meant to be beautiful.
My work is meant to be poetic…

Jun 28, 2023Jun 28, 2023 by: Shana Huang

Pópó
Is the Taishanese term
for grandma…

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by: Mihara Minsadi

The words we write can go far and wide
Into hundreds of hands and minds…

May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 by: Jennie Byrne

i am in pieces
a tornado, blown open, a belt wrapped like a noose, tight around old scars…

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 by: Shana Huang

Lover embracing, tracing your
fingers down my spine, unraveling pages of being entwined…

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 by: Shana Huang

My breath grieves the veneer of
Love lost in shattered limbs that lay beyond the Oakwood…

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 by: Shana Huang

If I were right beside you, I’d
whisper into the caverns of
your ears…

Apr 28, 2023Apr 28, 2023 by: Sophia Dublin

I wrote these last Summer in the final days of being a teenager…