Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
Pour Rain Pour Drown The Impure Pour rain, pour hard, erase the stain, Let thunder speak through grief and pain, Wash every mark that darkness made,
By George’s Girl 2026 10 days ago in Poets
What did we do wrong Should the people have not sung Too many believe it's midnight, and we can hear the gong As the bells ring, there are things that can't be undone
By Jason Morton10 days ago in Poets
Show Me Your Fist And I Will Kill You Show me your fist, I know that sign, A threat you think will make me blind, But I have stood in darker places,
Okay, let's pretend this is my side !? Let's pretend these are my ribs, and my bones - my SIDES !? Let's pretend these are the people who are with ME !?
By 365poetry10 days ago in Poets
Cool Down the Sun, It’s Too Hot We don’t do heat, not this thick choking kind where walls sweat and bed sheets cling like guilt.
You need to be really careful Not to define yourself by your Perceived disability (or whichever perceived shortcomings)
By Grz Colm10 days ago in Poets
The Eye In The Sky You cannot see them, no, not once, yet something lingers in the air, a pressure just behind your thoughts,
British Weather Oh, the skies are gray and dreary, With clouds that dance and twirl, Sometimes the sun shines bright and cheery,
There’s a big storm brewing today Going to be a big one, so they say A reformed cyclone from up the coast That's where the damage was the most
By Calvin London10 days ago in Poets
She Wears Hearts Like Armour She wears hearts like armour, pressed into her skin, soft shapes pretending they do not remember pain.
By George’s Girl 2026 11 days ago in Poets
Quiet Messengers, For Bren Bren, I know the silence grows, in ways the outside never shows. A year has passed, yet still it stays,
To: The monsters under my bed... I still love you quietly, gently at a distance where my love cannot be seen I still love you
By Lolly Vieira11 days ago in Poets