Keep a poetic journal, or create separate entries in essay or journalistic style. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:26:08 +0000 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:26:08 +0000 Featured Poetry https://featuredpoetry.com/forums/journalese.10/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:02:37 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/scoffing-custard-creams.17/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/scoffing-custard-creams.17/ invalid@example.com (Michael Ashley) Michael Ashley Soft bite
The bright packet
One bar of the fire
Pangs tear down my gut

Drift of cobwebs
Old furniture
Imbecile dog snoring in the corner
Nouns upon nouns
God casting his ivory net

Drink the last of the warm pink wine
Run the iron over the stale shirt
Undo the manky cuffs
Grime fast in fabric
Sludge under the rubber insole



]]> 44 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:16:35 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/leeza%E2%80%99s-pieces.89/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/leeza%E2%80%99s-pieces.89/ invalid@example.com (Leeza Simmons Sikes) Leeza Simmons Sikes
I don’t know how to sext

but if I did

I’d sext
you something stupid
like
cum over here

and you’re so dumb
it’d probably turn you on
which would turn me on

and I’d wish I’d never sexted you

because all I’d have in my hands

is a stupid phone]]> 12 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:40:27 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/radio-dreams.101/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/radio-dreams.101/ invalid@example.com (Raymond Huffman) Raymond Huffman
I have always wanted to take credit for other people’s music
when I was about twelve my parents let me plan a party in the basement
my friend and I created a music sound system with some rudimentary equipment we had
to play tapes for the party I don’t remember how
but no one came to the party anyway
when I was fifteen
I strapped a transistor radio to my bike and rode along the streets
playing Satisfaction by the Stones as loud as I could
hoping someone would be...

Radio Dreams]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:30:56 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/the-nest.57/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/the-nest.57/ invalid@example.com (Raymond Huffman) Raymond Huffman
It was a remarkable thing, he thought. He knew how the wasps had built it, chewing off small pieces of wood with...

The Nest]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:14:32 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/sky-road.31/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/sky-road.31/ invalid@example.com (Raymond Huffman) Raymond Huffman Sky Road

This morning I heard
the unmistakable calls of Whooping Cranes
plaintive and creating echoes within echoes

There were two flying high
against the impossibly blue November sky
the rarest and tallest birds in North America
here finally to spend the winter
on the South Texas coastal marshes

With seven-foot wing spans they flew
swiftly over my house
and in less than two minutes they were gone
just long enough to take six photos

They were among the first of the annual...

Sky Road]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:59:49 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/a-quiet-morning.24/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/a-quiet-morning.24/ invalid@example.com (Raymond Huffman) Raymond Huffman
This quiet Sunday morning I was sitting in the backyard
watching the birds
thinking how peaceful it was

I heard the distant sound of an approaching helicopter
It gradually became louder and I thought
this is not an ordinary helicopter

Then I saw two massive 100 foot-long Chinooks
flying in close formation low over my house
each with tandem blades 25 feet long
and louder than thunder
I knew they could carry two dozen troops each

I wondered if the Martians had...

A Quiet Morning]]> 1 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:08:19 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-nothing.5/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-nothing.5/ invalid@example.com (Jay Dougherty) Jay Dougherty 1
with your eyes closed
pretending to see
only the dark
parts]]> 4 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:10:18 +0000 https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/30-short-of-rent.4/ https://featuredpoetry.com/threads/30-short-of-rent.4/ invalid@example.com (Daniel J. Flore III) Daniel J. Flore III $30 SHORT OF RENT

I was on the couch thinking people were spying on me. Delusional like nausea of the brain and anxiety exploded. My pills don't work but they help. Didn't matter, I had already taken them. Then the diarrhea came. A couple of rock turds that seemed like they were speaking to me pushed out saying, "IT'S ALL OVER FOR YOU." Then a stream of consciousness black and brown water current of shit (me with no life jacket) poured from the guts of my mind anus. I laid back down....

$30 short of rent]]> 2