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**

[Clockwork]

Amen to the end of your poem. Socrates wrote that the unexamined life is not worth living, and as poets we examine life. We cannot stop doing that even if it means looking into ourselves or our world so deeply that we uproot the things we typically identify as conventionally correct.

As for being prophets in the 21st century, I wish I could agree. We are prophets, but no one wants to acknowledged or prophecy.

[Luke Ritta]

very well written, stunning title...i really enjoyed this poem, once again fantastic work Samantha.

[Veronica Lynn]

Magnificent! I love the detail. Good Job!

[ghost writer]

Bravo...this is like the sex pistols in poetry!! You stepped outside the box..brought us into the new generation!! Loved it..loved it..and loved it some more..this is wonderful to read something with a bite to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! favoured..

[InkingPen]

Wow, this is fabulous writing. Really enjoyable read and going in my favorites!

[Octob3r Star]

An amazing story. I could really imagine the scenery and situation.

[Bare trees]

Top notch metaphors and emotions. Always a good and original write from you Samantha. You have a unique style. Keep it up.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

@ ShaneBerry thanks for your review :) yes lol I used different fonts for a reason, and I put more effort into this poem it took me a little longer to finish it cause unlike my other work this did not flow freely as for the spelling error ... there is no error tare is spelled correctly (tare as in to tare apart) NOT tear as in to cry

[ShaneBerry]

"Art Critic
to tare ---> *Tear
us apart"
this is the only spelling or grammar error i could find. there are some parts though where the font is odd, the O's look like A's in some parts...
this seemed like a random thought poem. it is a way to break writers block, you write the first thing that comes to you mind. is that what this is by any chance?

it was deep but a little robotic in my opinion. i do like how you made use of italicizing and bolding the words to display the phonetic way the word should be said in the writing.

thank you for sharing.
-S.B.-
Art Critic
to tare
us apart

[Diwakar - "The Warrior ..]

TRUE, and beautiful ;-)