By Jelisa Gonzalez | May 6, 2024 Photo Credit: Pixabay Soy una llorona, I am the crier. For reasons I want to believe are out of my...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | May 6, 2024 Photo Credit: Pixabay I have to learn to accept That I will never one hundred percent Understand my...

By Kehinde Adejumo | April 29, 2024 Photo Credit: Flickr What if I told you I had it planned from the very beginning? Flashing lights and...

By Kay McCray | April 22, 2024 Photo Credit: Kay McCray / The ASP She took me to the museum everyday I’d look at all the priceless works...

By Mena Brazinski | February 26, 2024 Photo Credit: J. Crocker on Wikimedia Commons There’s a moment when you cross the bridge heading...

By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: Mehdi_meghari on Pixabay What do I have to give? I want to give you the world. I want...

By Dominique Platt | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Dear Soulmate, I am a hopeless romantic, That means, in simple...

By Saraí Knox | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: hoangdong7689 on Pixabay they hold each other in a tight embrace fingers intertwined,...

By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: 51581 on Pixabay I keep missing you. I miss you every time I wake up alone, just a...

By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: mariya_m on Pixabay I’m fine. No, I wake up fine. I’m not hidden away from the...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | February 12, 2024 Photo Credit: Jelisa Gonzalez / The ASP I woke up and assumed I’d remain in the neutral stance I’d...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | November 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Adobe Stock Images I look up at the trees lining the hills, As pillars to my greater...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 16, 2023 Peeling Crumbling Blistering Red And almost blue I’m Closer to my veins Than I am to you Peeling…...

By Mattie Fitzpatrick | October 2, 2023 Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani on Shutterstock The last thing I remember was they said the mountain...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 2, 2023 I see you glisten from the illuminated box My eye doesn’t look off I’m holding you, Clutching the...

By Jelisa Gonzalez | September 25, 2023 Photo Credit: Pixabay Perpendicular on all four sides I’m enclosed Encapsulated by Gray concrete...

By Henry Fisher | August 28, 2023 Photo Credit: Pexels The seconds hand is fast. You can see the time burn, Though it’s slow against the...

By Saif Parchment | May 1, 2023 He said Forgive me Father up in Heaven. He was carrying a smith and wesson “He was carrying a smith and...

By Henry Fisher | April 3, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP The Earth is awake with the sound of man’s tools. Each one a...

By Henry Fisher | March 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP I am told it’s time to climb the Mountain of Knives, the one that...

By Ivette Rodriguez | March 6, 2023 I know many of you will read the title and end it there. I mean, why wouldn't you? We’re 18, 19, 20,...

By Ivette Rodriguez | February 27, 2023 The child in me is so angry Angry that I was always the caretaker Never being taken care of But...

By Henry Fisher | February 20, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP A few small raindrops, Trail across the car window. To the...

By Ivette Rodriguez God I want to do coke so badly Why’d G have to hit me up today… I was so so close And now it feels like I am...

By: Ivette Rodriguez Mom, if you were my daughter You’d be the most loved in the world Flower crowns adorning your pretty face And a...

Shianne Henion | April 19, 2022 It’s six in the morning. I sit in the hospital in a daze, unsure of what’s happening. But I know then,...

By Henry Fisher It started the morning after a bonfire, When the ashes reminded you of sand. The gray remains not quite granular, And yet...

By Jada Jinks | February 28, 2022 Moonlight dances across my fingertips I paint the sky shades of blue. There was never once a woman That...

By Shianne Henion I am clay in your hands, the curl of the ocean, I am gravel and moss and peonies picked by those same nails that dug...

Hannah Karim I lose the game, pull the wrong card, but as I stand up, so do you, you tell me I won’t have to jump in alone. We stand,...

By Jada Jinks A frozen block of ice Weighing upon my chest Memories of you beside me I look upon with dread Lay me down my lover and...

By Jada Jinks “This is boring, you’re gonna have to try harder than that!” A boxing instructor taunted his student as they circled around...

By: Tessa Sutherland | February 14, 2022 Photo Credit: Tessa Sutherland He kicks back in the chair with ease while his college peers...

By: Helena Horvat As the tab settled onto my tongue I stared at Ezra. He smiled with his glossy grey eyes, gently petting my blond curls....