Joe Marquez

[Kaptan Hindustan™ @KaptanHindustan]

That's enough

[Henry Reed @DrunkPoemExpmnt]

Some days are just sad, you can’t help it.

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

A little dancin'
To drive my blues away,
Cause when I'm dancin'
De blues forgets to stay.

[Poets House @poetshouse]

The nearer I come to you
In reality
The louder the key sings in the door of the unknown room

André Breton, trans. Mary Ann Caws

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

For you I have many songs to make
Could I but find the words.

[Poets House @poetshouse]

We said untrue things to
make the time go faster.

- Jenny M. Xie
@jennymxie

[Poets House @poetshouse]

I was too careless with myself,
too aware that death does not feel like an end to me,
and neither like a door

-Chimwemwe Undi
@AkashicBooks

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

I ask you this:
Which way to go?

[Poets House @poetshouse]

The worst is my imagination; lushly underscoring everything.

- Lucy Ives
@thesongcave
#PHSHOWCASE17

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

So I went on back to bed -
And dreamed the sweetest dream

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

It was in the empty house
That I came to dwell
And in the empty house
I found an empty hell.

[Poets House @poetshouse]

Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?

You flicker. I cannot touch you.

-Sylvia Plath

[Poets House @poetshouse]

Watch a new person grow over top of you, like
ivy.

-@alex_icon
#PHSHOWCASE17

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

I play it cool
And dig all jive.
That's the reason
I stay alive.

My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.

[Langston Hughes @langston_poems]

Tell me,
Is there peace

[✶ Ⓜ️𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕤 ▶️ ✶ @_MarcusD2_]

Kevin Durant looks at his Mother Wanda and says "We did it.I told you when I was 8 years old"

[Poets House @poetshouse]

Dear body, I told you, pleading,
Don't Leave! but I understand you

can't say anything.

-Gail Mazur
@UChicagoPress

[Poets House @poetshouse]

I mean, who isn’t heating up for the next life
on the order of Antoine Doinel, or a pot of unsweetened chocolate.

-Charles North

[Poets House @poetshouse]

Somebody down there hates us deeply,
Has planted a thorn where slightest woe may overrun.

-Bill Berkson

[Poets House @poetshouse]

This is the only kingdom.
The kingdom of touching;
the touches of the disappearing, things.

-Aracelis Girmay