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**

[Beccy]

All poets are driven. It seems not to matter how the lines are received, still we write.
I have been writing poetry since I was eight, I don't expect I will ever stop.

Beccy

[Marianne]

How wondrously urgent and futuristic a write, Samantha. 21st technology has absorbed the minds of the man in the street; the need to wake up from our collective slumber to be rushed and crushed by life pulsing just beneath the surface if we could see and sense the pain inside the loss of our mortality, the loss of our innocence, the cries of heart, body and mind to be heard and heeded before it is too late.
I adore your CRY to stay alive . . . in and through the ART of POETRY so masterly penned by you!

[Janice Ann]

Poets = Prophets. What a wonderful literary truth.
Awesome...

[Revery]

You have always been one that has stood out from the rest Samantha. I always love your verse. Always powerful and brash and grabs you from start to finish. Magnificent my dear.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

aww thank you ... Im sending you a big cyber hug

[Writer *78*]

There it is ladies and gentlemen the one thing that society hasnt done yet awoken to the minds viewpoint on the way things are now-a-days. Very insporational sorry if i spelt it wrong but sadly society will never wake up from it dull and boring way of being because people tend to not think that words, and ideas are the only things that make it anywhere in the world. Ive talked about waiting and wanting to start an intellectual revolution where people within our society tend to wake up and realize things for ones self. This poem has changed my life and now has made me more driven to write. Thank you. Mind reviewing my work Phantom: The Darkness Within and telling me what you think?

-Writer *78*

[DrD]

Interesting structure and concept. I liked the style and message and think you did a very nice job in presenting both.

[Amelie]

Writer's block is a myth, but to the extent that it might or could've occur, it could be such a b***h whenever it pesters on your muse. I like the rawness in your language, don't ever lose that though you are improving as you go along writing more poems; it is your Neptune's trident as a writer and you're fantastic that way...

[Crystal K]

Awesome read and very creative :) I enjoyed this very much

[Tree]

Creative, and I dig the word play and the font. This is the second poem I've come across today that I found using the various fonts at our disposal in a artful way. I've used this medium/technique before and understand the usefulness of it. "Because we are so tightly put together That we love to be torn apart".... That hit home/ I think anybody who creates art ...can feel this. And that last stanza, was sublime.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thank you very much Diego

[Heather]

I love this, OMG its outstanding!