By Sara Louise Wheeler I forgot how afternoons could be simple and peaceful, and how to lose myself in the murmur of the tide; how life...

By Carly Stewart Dear love, why do we persist in wearing these Janus masks? And continue to play these exquisitely beautiful games of...

By C. Locke There is no light behind closed eyelids when acid tears burn trenches in her sunken cheeks and the lullaby of a dead girl...

By Nouri Artificial and benign, No ordinary creature took grasp of my mind. Right, Left, Up, Down, carving through my insides, the...

By Tick Rowley Falling through the funnel I found myself dangling by a thread, suspended in mid-air, surrounded by the dark. In one swift...

'Slowly Lose My Mind' by Missie Biellie-Dee ~ Miss Purple Heart The sun shines brightly, As I slowly lose my mind, Time flies by, As I...

By Martha Clarke When I looked in the mirror, I saw him and I jumped. He wrapped his broad fingers around my neck and against the wall my...

By Phoebe Elms Red billows seep on the water’s surface, Cuts to my veins to symbolise the pain, My way of coping in this hell’s furnace....

By Thomas Ryan Lloyd Stare, Colder than the winter pavement You sit Cup of coins half empty, Symptom of a contactless world. Overcast,...

By Gemma Green a soft, prudent kill at the end of hardened limbs one pill, two pill excavating eternal bondage a churning of 200 small...

By Sarah Quinn I miss you dreadfully already. We have both lived the ways this ends time and time again, but it’s the question of when...

By basq Lyon I found myself craving feeling again. Remembering when it flowed through me so effortlessly. When stimulation was my only...

By Dorota Chioma Mental wellness, An apex of a mountain Climbing up is time consuming and burdened with effort. Falling down happens...

By Tassia Dorsamy She thought he was the one Little did she know that it was all wrong His erratic behavior at first seems normal...

By Safiyyah Altaf Slipping on fertility, brought to my knees Reaching for water at the robin river Stirring and searching the amniotic...

By Lucy Pettigrew We nursed our sadness like a newborn, tended to depression like dying flowers, blade bracelets wrapped round magnolia...

By Annie. J The beauty and the body, glorified And bold. Narcissus as he walks among us The sweetest of dew to sweetest of honey Drawing...

By Steven Lee Hann will be the day we part ways. You always found my stories a bore, with no idea what this simple flower says. My sights...

By P.T. Heart Long evening sunsets flowed Growing up, summers ago That evening light ever glow Shadows dark & long and light so warm...

By Ruth Cowell Sharp words spit from your lips And litter the floor Pointed rusty nails That bury themselves in my feet That burrow their...