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**

[zainul]

Samantha,you have nicely depicted the frustration and unfair trade with the poets in the name of criticism and writers block.(if i am not wrong)
I enjoy your artistic and prophetic(!) poem written and presented in a unique way.

I have already read your poem and many more will follow.So,this poem has been rescued from being dead.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thank you

[zainul]

You are welcome

[words of rooted design]

Absolutely inspirational! I adore this.

[Hayley-Jade]

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DESCRIBE what you just did for awhile. You're amazing!!!

[kayla]

I love thus!(: It's definately true

[Muse]

I think all writings...are permanently under construction. I read my stuff a few hours...days...weeks later..and I can always find something to change. And lol...writers block can feel like torture. But you still prove to have a clever hand at penning.

Muse

[Danielle]

I absolutely love this poem, I'd have to say it is my favorite poem I've read on this site so far! Very creative!!!

[Aristede Craig Jr]

beauty i love the heart i love the beat of the blood pulse decreasing and increasing does it make us unregular......Edet Sira

[Kenneth The Poet]

I love this!

[Honey54]

I TOTALLY AGREE...I LOVE THIS...HOW YOU ANIMATED THE WORDS MADE ME LISTEN AND LOOK...US POETS EXPRESS AND BARE SO MUCH WE DESIRE RECOGNITION FOR THIS...

[VinoVenitas]

this was really good, it became this weeks creative top piece on my website.