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“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be solit’ry Countless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!”

Source: The Basement Trains: A 21st Century Poem

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

“If in poetry court she was called to testify on matters where I was condemned to imprisonment: parking my ego at a broken meter, line violations, forced rhyme, dealing stanzaics to children, shooting off my mouth, getting cute, for even this latest attempt at verse, she would tell the whole truth, she would admit from the pit of her unsung brilliance, from all of the paintings and poems she herself has been making and storing in the vast empire of her singing soul, your Honor, my daughter is guilty of plagiarizing my cells.”

Mother Family Daughter Guilt Cells Meter Line Stanza

Book:Drum Machine

Source: Drum Machine

“As a woman still, without the right kind of mouth, my tongue’s of no use.”

Tongue Woman Haiku Uselessness Mysogyny Oral Sex Stanza

Author:Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“I found an empty chair and sat on it to find myself even emptier. I found a broken glass and looked at it to see my dissolved face a little prettier I found a steep doorway and entered in order to close my exit. From the poem 'Blue Stanzas”

Poetry Broken Poem Sitting Empty Blue Painful Poetry Quotes Poems Emptiness Exit Brokenness Look Poema Verse Broken Glass Poetry Quotations Sit Chair Doorway Stanza

Book:Beyond The Vernal Mind

Source: Beyond The Vernal Mind