Don't Make Me Laugh
written by: Debra Sasak Ross
 

So damn tired
Doctors
Nurses
Technicians
Procedures
MRIs
CT scans
Scopes
Physical therapy
Infusions
Injections
Pill for this
Pill for that
Absolute poison
Every single one #Spillwords #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Literature

No Winter Lasts Forever
written by: Simona Prilogan
 

My beloved, the rain is writing sweet love letters to the sun
Penning memories of summers with the colours of pure bliss,
Through the storms, these pitch-dark evenings are #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Literature #Fiction

A Hole In My Heart
written by: Debadrita Sarkar
 

I have a hole in my heart,
where a flower blooms everyday,
to solace my soul.
But, once my aunt said
It is hard to breathe sometimes,
right?
and once, my best friend pitied me, #Spillwords #Poetry #Literature #Fiction #WritingCommunity

Walking the Beach, We Show Our Ignorance
about Stars, Constellations
written by: D. R. James
 

before mentioning the dead ones
mixed in,
the snuffed ones,
how they’ve guided the race, we figure,
since long before the faintest #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords #WritingCommunity

Read: A Deed in Need
written by: Nishand Venugopal
 

Read for pleasure,
Read for closure,
Read to gain knowledge and clarity,
Read to acknowledge the diversity,
Read to stay alert from technology used for malevolence,
Read to stay #Spillwords #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #WritingCommunity

The Eyes Of My Regret
a poem by: Angelina Weld Grimke
 

Always at dusk, the same tearless experience,
The same dragging of feet up the same well-worn path
To the same well-worn rock;
The same crimson or gold dropping away of the sun #Spillwords #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity #Poetry

Recipe For A Day Out written by: P.M. Jack - Ingredients: 2 children (matured for 6 and 12 years)... #Literature #Fiction #Poetry #Spillwords #WritingCommunity

Burnt Releases
written by: Yesmine Lagras
 

I’ve swept the ashes of your maybes
from the corners of my skull.
This house is wholly empty now
the locks glow, beautiful.

No more rent paid in what-ifs,
no shadows signing leases. #Fiction #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Literature #Poetry

The Temple Within
written by: Vidya Venkataramanan
 

The temple stands
On the shores
Of faith and belief,
The rippling waters
Lap against the jagged steps
Leading up to it.
The journey Home
Is almost done.

Some came by boat, #Fiction #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Erasure
written by: Michael Graeme
 

I'm here at this trade show, arm companionably linked with a woman. I think it might be Ella, though I'm not sure yet, and I don't want to ask. It's not because I'm afraid to – more that some #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Poetry

Długie Proste
written by: Rafał Gatny
 

- Weź, spodoba ci się.
Położył książkę na stole i przesunął w jego stronę.
- Nie ma mowy. Mam cały stos do przeczytania.
- Ale to są opowiadania. Krótkie.
- Krótkich też nie mam kiedy czytać. #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Literature #Poetry #Spillwords

Keybashing
written by: Robert Ashley Plummer
 

many letters or few craft a word or two before you know a sentence will grow a stop and comma will add some grammar a phrase will amaze and then in a daze you ravel tales of snails and #Poetry #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Spillwords #Literature

Remaining
written by: Abagail Summers
 

A child,
lost in the woods,
searching for a way out.

Sunlight beams in,
lighting a spot,
a clearing.

She kneels in the wet grass,
hands sprawled in front,
lips tightened,
no one #Literature #Poetry #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Spillwords

#Fiction #Literature #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Spillwords

Writing Like a Heartache
written by: Jude Moore
 

A pen is like a heartache:
If one pricks oneself, one bleeds.
With one, truths invested write,
The other, a lack of what one needs.

A book is like a heartache:
Tales of war and #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #Spillwords #Literature

The Initiative
written by: Robyn MacKinnon
 
She longs to take flight
launching new initiatives
is there life
on Mars?
 

 

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

Illustration description: A hummingbird sips from a flower, both gigantic, #Literature #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Spillwords

Sun Of The Sleepless!
a poem by: Lord Byron
Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far,
That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to joy remember'd well!

So gleams the #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Literature #Poetry

Another Lost Soul
written by: Veronika Kordikowski
 

Why did you do it?
Were your psychosis symptoms so terrible?

I feel so bad for you!
I feel the system failed you!
I feel so sad for you!

No Psychiatrist.
No Counsellor. #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Spillwords #Literature

Frizzle Frazzle Super Sarah
written by: Kristian Keefer
 

Part I

My Super Sarah My Super Sister
My sister is my real-life hero.
She is the strongest girl I know.
I call her Super Sarah.

Super Sarah battles her frizzy brain. #Poetry #Spillwords #Fiction #Literature #WritingCommunity

Heartsease
written by: Kim Ports Parsons
 

I’m pulling weeds from a tangled garden bed.
It’s impossible to stop invasives returning.

Rudbeckia and aster shine in September’s glow,
despite the bindweed and purslane burgeoning. #Poetry #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Literature #Fiction