Poetry Catalog

This bodyhas had threeburst forth bloodyand squalling one so tiny I begged doctors to not make mebring her home asI was a child myself another coming during a snowstorm and full moon the lastleaving me a scar deliberateand having me questionthe clairaudience of the unbornin coming just when weathermen in white coats predicted he wouldButit was the fear of steel and … [Read more...] about Crossing The Manhattan Bridge On A Morn In March, By: Desiree Napoleon

My heart stops beating but life doesn't stop thereAnother's life is fading but now there iskidney to spare,My life on this world is now goneBut through another a little piece of it lives on, I am the receiver speaking and my life can now restartThrough the generosity of the donor's gift as they depart,Both my family and I will forever speak of them inour humble and thankful … [Read more...] about The Tragedy And The Miracle, By: Franny Weldon

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,With ill-matched aims the Architect who plannedAlbeit labouring for a scanty bandOf white-robed Scholars only, this immenseAnd glorious Work of fine intelligence!Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely-calculated less or more;So deemed the man who fashioned for the senseThese lofty pillars, spread that branching … [Read more...] about Inside Of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, By: William Wordsworth

I pick the brightest and biggest one I can find. Carefully, because they’re delicate. I hold it up and tip my head back, catching the drops on my outstretched tongue as they slip out of the shallow hole in the center of the flower. Honeysuckle.Sickly sweet. My mom planted the bushes herself. Dug into the hard ground and planted two of them behind my brothers’ window … [Read more...] about In The Red, By: Tori Flint

I'm a super villain, a creator of plans.So diabolical that no-one understands. My intelligence is elegance, no forensic evidence.Circumstantial eloquence with venomous unpleasantness. I increase bank costs when I double cross, who's Tony Danza cos I'm the boss. I'm JaPanda, a superhero multi-slayer.Dropping needles like an old school record player. I get my powers … [Read more...] about The Origin Story Of JaPanda, By: Declan Fanning