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BlueSkies May 24, 2025

Stab Me in the Back Again, My Love

I’ve pulled the knives from my back
Cleaned and restored them
And placed them in a shadow box

The dripping wounds have turned to scars
Remnants of betrayal
From those who have claimed
To love me

They say the greater the love,
The greater the pain,
The heartbreak
The grief

Meanwhile,
You’re left to clean up the mess,
Pick up the pieces of your heart
And, somehow
Learn how to be whole
Again

TG
The Gogetter May 24, 2025

Since that moment

Since that moment
on 20/11/2024,
I let myself cry,
anywhere,
any way,
any how.
Since 20/11/2024,
when Bruce put me under,
and I let out that big sob,
and released
all my emotions,
I give myself permssion
to cry.
It is good for you.
It is healthy for you.
It is a total release of positive energy.

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Leslie May 24, 2025

My dandelion girl!

My dandelion girl,
I sit with in the park.
Maybe she's no beauty queen,
but as loyal as the common Lark!

You can search
the world over,
but you'll never find another.
One who's more devoted
to your state of mind!

Given your imperfections
it shouldn't be hard to find.
What really moves her
she's as pure as can be!

When you're lost and dreaming,
she placates your tortured mind.
No one else does that.
She's as good as refined gold!

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Blue-eyed Bolla May 24, 2025

Sweet Dreams

This Life, oh it is far too brief.
That traitor, Time, steals like a thief,
but days are long when songbirds sing:
sweet sounds they share this sacred spring.

These hours, when golden rays feel warm
(cut short by sudden senseless storm)
still shine sublime inside my soul,
a memo crafted to console.

These lines, laid down before I pass,
(as dew drop pearls that grace the grass,)
will fade, like poet's toils and tears,
to leave sweet dreams of golden years.

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paul May 23, 2025

Empty Lanes

To the god I believe in
On a night that
I am barely breathing

Send a stop sign
For these many
thoughts of mine

Find an empty space
For the thousand tears
Running down my face

Don't look away
Cause that's when
my mind takes
The steering wheel

Reroute me
since these
Street signs
Don’t tell me
How far I am
From home

If the streetlights
Desert me
Turn on the stars
So, I can see
The coming scars

TG
The Gogetter May 23, 2025

What brought me back

It seems easier for me
to talk about this now,
three years later,
after the chaos,
after the disruption
I experienced.
It appears to most people
who know me
that my mind is clear.
Deep in my soul,
deep in my mind,
I have returned,
but not just to what I was before.
I am a different version of myself.
I am a more confident version of myself.
I am a more active version of myself.

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Rula May 23, 2025

The Magic Box

I once had a computer—
I called it the magic box.
Its mother—the clever board—
Had every bit to be neatly stored.

Its bytes are digits, it eats nothing else,
It digests it all—
With the software’s tiny cells.

They said, “Keep it—it shall save your time,”
But all I used it for, in truth,
Was simply sharing this silly rhyme.

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poetaldo May 23, 2025

Mama mia

Mama mia
Don't worry
I will get by with little
Money
Also I spend my money
Wisely
Yes I am always streching
My money
And that is a very hard thing to do
I have my style of clothes
And second hand clothes
Are my style
Everybody tells me
That the clothes I wear is garbage
They don't know how much
They hurt me so much