Love's Cruelest Tax
written by: Jane Bradshaw
 

Capture that smile, one more time
Before the
Grim
Takes it from us

Hug, like there is no
Tomorrow
Because
For her there isn’t

Chase the rainbow
Hunt it down
Magic
Abounds #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity

The First Fallen Leaf
written by: Phyllis P. Colucci
 

I found myself sitting on the old
wooden park bench
In my old quaint neighborhood
Peering through oversized sunglasses
and sipping a mocha latte,
watching the world go by
Like #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Poetry #Literature #Fiction

Muscle Memory
written by: T. Novak
 

I often wonder if my hands look the same as my grandmother’s,
and her mother’s mother’s,

I see it in my mother’s writing, the way she writes her “H,”

With a cursive sharp peak,
And elegant #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Literature

Little Anthony
written by: Ash Douglas
 

on this July summer night
I see you there in the sky
where you are not supposed to be
what happened for you to go there
why are you needed so soon
all I can do is wonder
as my heart tries #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity

Elena
written by: Anna Canić
 
Smoke may be white,
But so are clouds -
Soft like pies
With stars your lovers
Cast no shade,
Their lies will fade...
You’re never late
There ain't no other. #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Literature #Fiction

Lone Path
written by: Srivalli Pemmaraju
 

Are you brave?
Are you mad?
What made you
Choose the lone path?
Entire herd going one way
What made you
Go another way?
What was on the mountain
That was not in the ocean
What was #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry

The House the Ocean Left Behind
written by: Natalia Aeschliman
Inspired by Andy + Jamie Anderson

 

Grief is the house the ocean left behind—
walls salted, floorboards swollen,
air still humming with the memory of waves
that once #Spillwords #Literature #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Poetry

Release
written by: Fiona Paterson
 

Untether the umbilical which bound you to the womb,
Unleash the infant learning from mistakes.
Unfurl the carefree flags of youth,
Unbind the books, unwrap intriguing odysseys of learning.
Unroll #Fiction #Spillwords #Literature #WritingCommunity #Poetry

My Sad Self
a poem by: Allen Ginsberg
 

To Frank O’Hara

Sometimes when my eyes are red
I go up on top of the RCA Building
and gaze at my world, Manhattan—
my buildings, streets I’ve done feats in,
lofts, beds, coldwater flats #WritingCommunity #Literature #Poetry #Fiction #Spillwords

A Glimmer in Time written by: Franciska Merrick - Irena folds herself in half in an attempt to clear the arch to my kitchen. Dark, tall... #WritingCommunity #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction

Here I Am At 82
written by: Eileen Clark
 

Here I am at the ripe old age of eighty-two
Can’t say I’m still standing, that wouldn’t be true
I use a power wheelchair to get myself around
As for my mental state, I think I’m fairly sound #Literature #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction

Variety of Petals
written by: Thompson Emate
 

A variety of petals,
Different colours in the daylight,
My mother’s joy,
My mother’s pride.
Her nurturing hands tend to her garden,
Her diligent care makes it flourish.

My mother’s #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry

Coffee written by: Johanna Kropfitsch - Some things are too heavy, like a standard ceramic mug. He lifted it... #Spillwords #Literature #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry

Mares
written by: Brittany Cogbill
 

When we were playing with our Barbies, learning the level of perfection we were to mimic, the boys were running as fast as they could, -destination- no limit. We critiqued their outfits; their hair, #WritingCommunity #Literature #Fiction #Poetry #Spillwords

Before The Final March
written by: Dibyangana
 

Dear Love,

The stars shine too brightly here tonight—
just like they did the night we met.
The sky is calm, almost too calm,
as if it’s holding its breath for the storm to barge in. #Literature #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Poetry #Fiction

Love’s Dance
written by: Mike Turner
 

Dance to the music
Of hearts yearning in the moonlight
Ebony and indigo
Two hearts, two loves entwined
Sway to the cadence
Of your soulmate’s spins and gliding
There finding your own rhythms #Literature #Poetry #Fiction #Spillwords #WritingCommunity

 Fireside Hindsight
written by: Aaron Grierson
 

The fire calls to me: that primal heat and first imperative technology, wrapped up in scores of myths all seeking to answer integral pieces of the existential question 'how did we get #Spillwords #Literature #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction

Isabella
written by: Fatima Ijaz
 

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I see my reflection in the black window
Are those your eyes looking back at me?
Perhaps I lost my way in those woods
Years ago, walking with you and the dogs.
Isabella, you know I #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Poetry #Spillwords #Literature

Two Questions
written by: Connie Johnson

a handful of churches
a handful of boarded up build-
ings / sounds of Nina Simone
wafting from your
Uncle Earl’s stereo…

we soar #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Fiction #Poetry #Literature

Waiting for Eons
written by: Bilquis Fatima
 

I didn’t realize when sunny times
turned turbulent uprooting my faith in love,
which, still blooming was ruthlessly crushed.

One fine winter morning you asked for my hand
and I gave it #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Fiction