You cannot hide. (3) 2

by Roman Smith

It comes to the poor,
It stalks the rich...

The Unravelling (8) 5

by Kitty Cat Lady

I'm hanging by a thread here
It's worn and it is frayed...

The Tightrope (8) 4

by Kitty Cat Lady

My life it is a tightrope
This wire is slippy as hell...

The Eraser (13) 6

by Kitty Cat Lady

If you could take an eraser
To the bits of life that sucked...

On reflection (senyru) (7) 2

by Michael

If we are mirrored in a
parallel universe...

O Sailor! (3) 2

by Tapan Ghosh

O Sailor!
It’s the way I want to be...

Lady in black (Quatrain) (9) 5

by Michael

Eyes peer with guilt; beneath a tulle-net veil
her peevishness; steeped in silken black...

Light is right (1) 1

by zvikov

Though we know sight is right
A yearning resides...

Stress (weekly prompt) (9) 7

by Michael

Struck down with anxiety
Tensions weigh heavily upon me...

Blowing hot and cold (6) 5 HM

by Michael

Clouds; collude for a stormy charade
thunder; echoes a grumbled demise...

Spots (1) 1

by Mark

There's a spot on the wall
Small and dark, just one...

Honesty isn't something I know (collaboration poem competition) (11) 5 HM

by Michael

Like being caught out in the rain
I was soaked; in pitiless shame...