21st Century Prophets

We Poets are
21st Century Prophets
filling up notebooks
and screaming on stages

We connect in a fashion
as we wear words

We dance on pages
stripping naked
to get you to listen
like what we
have to say
can be heard
better by eyes
but only 4%
of the public
suffers with
Sinestesia

And still we slash
our wrists with ballpoint pens
to get our souls heard

Hanging our pain like paintings
in an art exhibit entitled
"Emotional Poets"

Wanting
Waiting
Wishing
for an
Art Critic
to tare
us apart

Letter by letter
word for word

Because...

Because we are so
tightly put together

That we love
to be torn apart

We turn
the pain
into art
and scars
into deeply
embedded
ink wells

Don't you see?

We 21st Century Prophets
hold the keys to our
broken heart cages
by wielding pens in ways
that spark thought

Cant you see?

Our wrists are still tender
yet we slash them open
again and again because...

Because writers block
is a far far worse
form of torture

And never
being read
is a fate
worse than death

By Samantha Campbell

Author's Note

you can find the word poets in prophets thus inspiring the whole poem

This feels like one of those never done poems ... permanently under construction lol

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

"And still we slash
our wrists with ballpoint pens
to get our souls heard"

This says it all! We are poets and you have captured our essence with your wonderful words. Yes, we NEED to express ourselves and we want to be read...to touch other lives and to reach out across the world. So emotive and very powerful. Great work. Lydi**

[Baby Ricochet]

Me? Prophet? Naa. I do humor, dirty limericks and cathartic pieces about my deployments. You could be a prophet.

[junaid altaf]

a poets life.......
its a totaly different analogy
he breaths in perception and exhales words
and yes his food is being read!
well composed

[TJ]

if only poets were looked on with the reverence of prophets, as they should be. bleeding your wisdom and feelings onto the page. painting a picture for us all to feel, using yourself to free our emotions, vicariously.
writers are the powerful

[Nick.B]

Interesting writing, it is something fresh with a deep meaning, that makes the reader question himself a lot and starts to wonder...great job

[The Nude Writer]

Awesome writing

[London Poet]

Amusing, dark, majestic, original, wonderful.

I really understood the sentiments.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

A very interesting supposition put forth eloquently. I don't pretend to lay claim to any psychic or prohetic powers however such as the seers of old. I am merely an observer of my surroundings and of human nature, striving to assemble some sort of clarity from the kaleidoscope of images which daily bombard my mind and heart. I enjoyed the read very much though. It was an intriguing and thought provoking write.

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intelligent writng.
thoughts. content. structure. phrasing.

nice job!

[Francis Danger]

very, very, very, very, very well done. this could be put to song.

[KeeD]

Why I feel that this could be one of the best pieces put up on Writerscafe for me.
1. The title, 21'st century prophets, just reading the title struck my curiosity, it's a great and very creatively edged way of drawing readers in.
2. Artist try to get their message delivered in so many different ways, visually, basically through all the senses. At the end of the day what they're trying to reach out to is the admirers mind, through all their efforts. You've explained this concept beautifully.
3. You've explained the sources of our inspiration, I say our because I'm a striving artist and reading this I feel this poem speaks for all of us trying to express ourselves. That's the beauty of this piece, it's like an anthem that unites our intellect and conveys are thoughts.
4. The ending is so true, nothing hurts more than having your work looked over, having your visions and dreams set to paper and then ignored. I'm a new face to WC and writing in general, joined about 2 weeks ago. These passed two weeks, i've been inspired to write more, felt support from all my fellow writers on here and feel appreciated. I can't help but log into the site every half an hour to an hour to see if someone said something about my work, or to read someone beautiful work. This was a great write, that inspires and speaks with such honesty and realism.