Our Poetry Collection

The Gentle Grief of a Pet Slowing Down

The muzzle's gray, the eyes are deep,He spends a longer time asleep.The ball is thrown, he gives a glance,And turns away from the old dance.My heart, it breaks in a slow way,Watchi...

The Unspoken Comfort of a Daily Ritual

The scoop, the water, and the hum,Before the busy day has come.This small, repeated, simple act,That keeps my scattered mind intact.It is the anchor to my day,It is the one and onl...

The Blissful Relief of Taking Off Tight Shoes

The pinch, the press, the slow-burn ache,For fashion or for custom's sake.All day I've walked on feet of lead,And dreamt of my return to bed.But first, this moment, sweet and true,...

The Golden Hour's Long Goodbye

The world is dipped in honeyed light,Before the coming of the night.The shadows stretch, and grow so long,And everything feels less wrong.The light forgives the harsh and plain,And...

The Melancholy of a 'For Sale' Sign

The sign is hammered in the lawn,A future that has just been drawn.The rooms where all my ghosts still play,Will all be swept and sold away.Each window holds a memory,That no new o...

The House Settling at Night

The day's heat leaves the wooden beams,Fulfilling all its structural dreams.A sudden groan, a gentle pop,A language that will never stop.It is the house's sleepy sigh,As all the wi...

The Surreal World of the 3 AM Laundromat

The only light on this whole street,A rhythmic, lonely, tumbling beat.The smell of soap, the buzzing hum,Where all the city's orphans come.We sit and watch our colors swirl,The for...

The Hesitation Before the First Plunge

The surface glitters, clear and deep,A shivering, cold promise to keep.My toes curl back, my muscles tense,Against all of my common sense.One moment of suspended fear,While the war...

The Moral Dilemma of the Bathroom Spider

It sits there, still, upon the tile,And I must ponder for a while.To grab the shoe? A brutal end.Or be its eight-legged friend?With cup and paper, I advance,To give this tiny life...