Poetry Garden | Site-Wide Activity https://poetry.garden/community/ Activity feed for the entire site. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:50:34 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a3f05efedd6c59b39e88366a3147e029 hubgranr published a new poem, in WATER https://water.poetry.garden/?p=5 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 06:46:16 +0000 ollu participles
hyperbolic ohms
2 shrined optics glo
outta martell stu
n fedde hulbart on 3rd
lit sparks lint churns
close script
what don’t uplift
it’s whatever
2 what’s beyond
good luck 2 funyun dips
n cream […]

]]> 5adc8d430d3fb0bc1c4a012be77210b6 maia published a new poem, in flowers fade https://flowersfade.poetry.garden/?p=10 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:01:26 +0000 he said he is broken too
he is broken
and we were weary tidal waves
ripples of water rolling over
shattered glass castles
our shattered glass castles

he said patience darling love
patience darling
and we were […]

]]> 0 71dcb08bd1799837d7025d6d6e6bc12e maia published a new poem, in flowers fade https://flowersfade.poetry.garden/?p=5 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:15:38 +0000 they are diamonds
containing light in precious ways
my pain is a gift
my tears an offering
the beauty of intricacy
is that it does not end
I am covered in diamonds
where my Father held me
every stitch left upon […]

]]> 0 f809cd23a37c8d547e1cf677fa4e8582 Benjamin published a new poem, in buds and tastey leaves https://bengwin.poetry.garden/?p=9 Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:40:46 +0000 I am advised , invited
to pick up a hyacinth 
join the newly- incomprehensible cacophony  
of blooming blumen 
I wait for rays of sun light to come through 
I will wait for the green tip to yellow  
when yell […]

]]> 0 c2d17e9cbfca4a1fd861d6a8808418f4 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=198 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:47:37 +0000 Fallen onto broken stars
the guard marches along the boundary
that indomitable pitch of night
hanging above us all
forgiven and forgotten it never will be.
A moment to stay
and say what has never been said
even […]

]]> 0 f0ff6b1cc72ea50696d3ee93c9800221 Benjamin published a new poem, in buds and tastey leaves https://bengwin.poetry.garden/?p=8 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:33:29 +0000 Mouth chocker spluttering yes to virtual garden after 1 year virtual middle
Eager to share and please as leaves
Spill out and tingle the best mint of your life pinched twice
With the aftertaste of what might be […]

]]> 0 2062648029380b08c07492a3991a92d3 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=196 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:22:05 +0000 in the quiet moments of the night
your eyes blink with light
waiting in the ever present darkness
you fill my stomach with sharpness
blood fills my throat
as the swamp frogs croak
watching in fear of you,
the one […]

]]> 0 5166e6988c9151ee104f3d584da8babf Daddee Vee da poet published a new poem, in Daddee Vee da poet https://daddee94.poetry.garden/?p=8 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:42:28 +0000 0 cb885dbadec10a5d95b829b58764aedb Evan Buckiewicz published a new fiction piece, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=331 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:58:08 +0000 THE BUS SPEEDS PAST Rachel as she’s still walking towards her stop, prompting her to sprint after it down the street. The chase gives her a strange sense of excitement. The soles of her shoes clap against the s […]

]]> 0 50331500d7e02a646e22c7d148e09c10 Dianna published a new fiction piece, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=192 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:26:42 +0000 i come from a home, a place, written in between the plains of somewhere hot, somewhere deep, and somewhere where the sun crowns itself as the conqueror of the heavens.
late afternoon shines onto the […]

]]> 0 d32b5e7a2301156fdc681d9a4dc35426 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=190 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:22:05 +0000 wrap around me like a coil
your hand a vice around my throat;
all the need in the world
not enough for you nor i
the moon watches through the windows
and i keep you for myself
as ordained by my love and […]

]]> 0 76d882dc41d1ac14d8ce8bed9e82a97c Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=141 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:27:21 +0000 You are all I want, and I can’t for the life of me, figure out why. I am screaming to you from my heart, and I don’t know myself anymore–I cannot abstain from this desire if it means having you. If there is a cha […]

]]> 0 f63d1704a00241261a39628f5b8118c4 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=270 Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:10:53 +0000 In every wing there is a feather
in every inch, infinite ways to measure;
in every crease, the mark of a fold;
in every sunrise, the times of old.
In silent, vain delight
I stir with fragrant cues.
Against the […]

]]> f53673b36c06aa80757acc6f30e84425 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=138 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:36:06 +0000 She is the one upon the hill,
eyes cast to the forever falling sky;
She is the one atop the clouds,
never aware of the coming autumn.
She is the Spring Diviner.
Stories of her various processions
arose across the […]

]]> 0 aafb2f8c6f8b6dab61e6f26061f734af Dianna published a new fiction piece, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=136 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:57:06 +0000 Come Wayward Star, the nights wade into darling dreams, and the clouds cushion the silver moon in the sky. Hands reach out for salvation, but instead find idealization—too dear to wash away.
Once upon a time, t […]

]]> 0 5d0317e3d80a76478f0f57ff7c4b19e7 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=134 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:19:55 +0000 the Clouds roll in during the Morning,
spreading the Sun all across
emerald Hills and azure Waves,
and I find myself in waiting.
there is an Ode to you in every waking moment,
and I find Spring in desolate […]

]]> 0 b9653dd982376e6a80feb3f1845eb4e2 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=130 Sat, 19 Jun 2021 18:15:18 +0000 dear darling stars and moon,
you gave me more than i perhaps deserved,
and i still feel the gaping hole you left–
will i always feel it?
in butterflies i remember your name
your eyes
your smile
in twinkling n […]

]]> 0 062a2c5ba649d447c5e14b522ad23f52 Evan Buckiewicz published a new fiction piece, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=263 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:17:06 +0000 A lone tree stands far off in an empty field. A piercing image, it seems to contain some sacred presence, it calls out to you – not in its own voice, but a voice that has rested deep within your sleeping m […]

]]> 0 7d0c2f1bc3233ce292a2fdd8bb21c43a Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=128 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:55:59 +0000 I shall have you alone,
there is no one else I can fathom in my arms.
When there is a chain around my heart,
it is in your name.
The clouds part and when I watch your face,
yours eyes reflect the great sun.
The […]

]]> 0 a1f6f334fe5bae4decf3da7d864beaf4 Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=16 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:57:59 +0000 Je parle toute seule
je rêve éveillée
ambiance de fin du monde
musique d’église
prier à quatre pattes à terre, les mains liées
Il pleut sur nos vies d’encabanés
Sur nos relations à distance
sur nos vélos déjà r […]

]]> 0 8179c71d7d78b9ecf5ae0e77626ab715 Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=14 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:45:54 +0000 I wait in a dark room
satin sheets and candles
praying for you
asking for what I deserve
how April’s sun could warm my heart
found through billions of others
I am longing for one who is longing for me
and as the s […]

]]> 0 587615ba8ed277ae374c1db688dd2b6b Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=15 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 21:26:45 +0000 When the night comes unexpectedly
it’s your hair that I see
I abstract myself from reality
and imagine your eyes before me
This strength makes me think of your hands
I feel them warm, soft and alive
the moment I p […]

]]> 0 fbd53cfdc858e9260798f9741e70933e Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=10 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:47:03 +0000 Mon existence
cette suite de petites morts
de réveils gris
de nuits bleues et de chants en coat de cuir
cette vie faite de colliers
de perles qui ne cessent de se casser
de gémissements étouffés dans l’o […]

]]> 0 52bf029ec19a78514fb968e9c1463317 Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=9 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:13:29 +0000 Je ne sais jamais faire la différence en amour et folie
il faut toujours que ce soit tout ou rien
question de vie ou de mort
Je rêve d’étreintes qui n’existent pas encore
d’un sommeil à deux
au bout du monde, à […]

]]> 0 cd5e56a82d2947fbfe36a39915e99c97 Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=8 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:53:25 +0000 I wanted to look into your eyes sweetly
hear the wind whisper your name
flip the mirror through your lenses
see the dawn of a day through your eyes
At night we would walk down the sidewalk
discreet, silent, […]

]]> 0 3f3e31a18ec51a5f6dd6182c0b42aaff Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=6 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:16:07 +0000 Ao meu redor
dez espadas em um círculo
me isolam do resto do mundo
elas formam um portal
Estou em outrea dimensão
Naquele onde tu me amas
Eu carrego esse sonho dentro de mim
perdido em minhas catástrofes
um so […]

]]> 0 873f5dacb16da08c7f51e7182b3fc042 Sarah Nove Gauthier published a new poem, in 8 509 https://dreamtree.poetry.garden/?p=5 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:56:20 +0000 Le jour, j’attend la nuit
mes matins sont parsemés d’angoisse
pas le droit de fumer ici
ni de vrai café
yeux vides, catatonie
ventres vides, bouffe d’hôpital
une ecchymose sur la main, je prie
pour ne plus vou […]

]]> 0 ef6e9de77c811f0274ca15e5f2a06e66 Mays published a new poem, in Spiritually Kiss https://spirituallykiss.poetry.garden/?p=5 Sun, 30 May 2021 22:22:29 +0000 Like The Spoon dancing
       acrobatics in the air
Refrain the cold Squirrel
       diplomatic on the road
Release the Winter, perched
       erratic on the year
Resist the Present, point
      […]

]]> 2 ec5f6d4c81645db3dff5e096451ec908 Dianna published a new fiction piece, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=126 Fri, 28 May 2021 05:09:30 +0000 When you are a witch in my world, you are cast into the forest. We are told there is no place for you in Good society, and that we will perish among the demons and fae whom we love. We are told as children that […]

]]> 0 edf6ab1dd4103493a01442a902730278 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=237 Thu, 27 May 2021 02:29:22 +0000 Snapdragon, snapdragon,
you once were a flower.
Your hour has passed;
your bones are here to last.
I’ll clothe them in leaves,
adorn them with fine vines.
Your metamorphosis complete
as you stand still in t […]

]]> 0 7126cfb9b75a898b362c20f77b5a5953 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=234 Thu, 27 May 2021 01:08:18 +0000 When I say that the sun will rise again tomorrow
I mean that I will have trust in the stability of my horizons;
what I see is only what the light touches;
 
if (it’s true that the sun will rise again to […]

]]> 0 84d42907ab885872b90af4c89ffc1588 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=233 Thu, 27 May 2021 01:01:35 +0000 A boy sat next to me on a street bench,
a carton of oranges in his hands,
noticing not my hunched form, fists clenched
around a misbaha, weighed by demands
that I could not fulfill, to my great shame.
The boy […]

]]> 0 855065bdfbc6c5ad14aa3587911a88e7 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=231 Thu, 27 May 2021 00:55:49 +0000 The soles of cold feet
pressed firmly onto a hard floor
in a bare room.
A life intentionally unsweetened –
though not without sweetness,
faint as it may be:
pale like the color of a dyed cloth
washed over many t […]

]]> 0 8e746fcc5e1489e017b4cc480b33f68d Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=230 Thu, 27 May 2021 00:54:04 +0000 I saw the perceived mentors,
who I thought could reel me back to shore,
rise, in estranged fervor
and cry shamelessly on the floor.
Drifting, drifting, evermore:
my tension eased; I had no lure.
To be like those […]

]]> 2 5f5a8bda8edef712885a782e506c78ae Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=232 Thu, 27 May 2021 00:52:10 +0000 [cw: contains images of addiction, violence and mental illness]
Spent the change I had on candy and coca cola.
Need money for the night bus now, need to get home to my bed.
I hate begging, but sometimes there’s j […]

]]> 0 0caf01011fa318d3b16b2b78ddef01ba Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=80 Wed, 26 May 2021 21:51:45 +0000 though i am enticed by love alone
there is life in me
when i set my eyes on the spring
and fate is sewn into my skin
like i could be alive again
in death there are little memories
that which i visit […]

]]> 0 b54942e2b1516fa4942b08b4c2c969ba bobbydylan published a new non-fiction piece, in balancetonbescherelle https://bobbydylan.poetry.garden/?p=5 Wed, 19 May 2021 09:54:55 +0000 L’écriture inclusive, une révolution féministe ?
L’Homme avec un grand H désigne l’ensemble du genre humain, engloutissant ainsi dans sa généralité linguistique la femme. Ainsi, beaucoup pensent encore que le […]

]]> 0 288bd9148c7d91cd42088a16c2ab0907 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=74 Thu, 06 May 2021 19:13:03 +0000 i contemplated your gaze
wondering what it could mean;
do you love me?
no–that is too much to ask,
do you hate me?
the god stares down at us
her eyes flickering with unseen visions
mouth moving in indescribable w […]

]]> 0 270faf99051ff18882b39956df61c46a Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=67 Thu, 06 May 2021 19:09:43 +0000 the great you,
who lies abed in a canopy of stars.
you, who is the greatest lover
of all humanity.
you, who i dream of
in those dusky nights;
you are everything good in this world.
you, the unconditional lover,
my […]

]]> 1 8498f4149b3311b3b2112b1f1ee24c32 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=39 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:49:22 +0000 the night has been lonely for you.
your voice comes in whispers,
but your eyes…
they scream at me.
you want to come home, don’t you?
i am your wish-granter,
to you alone…
but i am a dreamer, too.
the moon knows […]

]]> 0 b815c6a971c9430892891d4b57ce937f Dianna published a new fiction piece, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=27 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:09:48 +0000 The other handmaidens gasp around me as we see the acolytes cleanse dispassionately at the blooded dais; my Lady watches with a straight back, her thumb caressing the bulb of her cane. She glances back, those two […]

]]> 0 6a409b0436fa67beb3f78b01114a15c3 Dianna published a new poem, in THE MOON https://diannathemoon.poetry.garden/?p=11 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:33:20 +0000 Moonflower, a muse whose reflection I devoured,
a kindness that which I scoured.
Eyes of blue and brown,
earth and sea,
I stood in between and found.
Selfishly.
I yearned to be a creature like you,
an […]

]]> 0 c91c34ff2d1cc10d9232e5e7703b0c87 Evan Buckiewicz published a new fiction piece, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=124 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:13:57 +0000 At this moment, I am sitting on the side of a grassy curb on Lanthier Street, in Pointe Claire Village. A strange spot for my Author to have placed me. To my left is a small stretch of parked cars; to my right, […]

]]> 41 5f0d553ab4d53283f825ff7054549f31 Cynthia Etienne published a new poem, in Seedlings https://seedlingsina.poetry.garden/?p=25 Sat, 06 Mar 2021 18:25:40 +0000 seedling,
you bring
you feel
an echo
in your self
separating
 
and there’s an opening
in the twining reach.

]]> 1 a4a692239d652374c4f2a612b7af70d6 Cynthia Etienne published a new poem, in Seedlings https://seedlingsina.poetry.garden/?p=8 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:31:57 +0000 Hear
  it is still here.
Here, it is still.
 
Here
it is in your ear.
 
Hear it,
it is in your heart.

]]> 0 00328e87260d6bea8f0d44da6067f231 Cynthia Etienne published a new poem, in Seedlings https://seedlingsina.poetry.garden/?p=7 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:30:33 +0000 is anointed, an ointment of Nature
which leaves, its truth
 
rises, subscribes to the City
embarked on bricks -no tree
 
sanctions our progress,
though it is to her
we are appointed to.

]]> 0 0d0c4bd356a7a1cd90d4cd1a62aec545 tdunf published a new poem, in Otherworldly https://otherworldly.poetry.garden/?p=17 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:09:25 +0000 lost steering this strange vessel, 
behind the helm, we wrestle.
sheets as sails, a wind prevails,
no map or other details.
 
none of us chose to embark,
or trace meandering arc,
across a turbulent sea.
we have n […]

]]> 0 b6543d9dce90ec6b4968d9a74fcb0d9a tdunf published a new poem, in Otherworldly https://otherworldly.poetry.garden/?p=14 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:49:28 +0000 I am forever your greatest fear.
I wonder, still, if you hold me dear.
I hear your futile attempt to measure, 
I see you seek both meaning and pleasure. 
 
I feel all beings with cold embrace.
I touch, draw li […]

]]> 0 3d1c6234d17287bdb9d460ed3db71aa8 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=89 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:52:22 +0000 “You were born in my memory
already yearning for something further,
distant: what I too
wish I could articulate
but see inside of you.
Like the ray reflects light from the gemstone:
you capture what I could n […]

]]> 2 73e2b8a905e04a3955377d0900bdc490 Evan Buckiewicz published a new poem, in Prose and Poetry https://evans.poetry.garden/?p=88 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:44:59 +0000 And who wouldn’t have guessed
that it would come back
to these dust covered windows,
coated in a grainy paste.
I’ve seen them before.  I think of them often.
Those dust covered windows, those dust covered wind […]

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