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**

[Cascara (aka Sprint Goe..]

i like your anthropomorphisms! very entertaining to read :)

[freelancejouster]

the ballpoint pen to wrist idea is the most powerful part in my opinion, keep working and the final will be an increible metaphor for just who we are and what we do.

[Mark]

The most interesting lines are "we are so tightly put together that we love to be torn apart"

[*~*Butterfly Kisses*~*]

Another excellent write. Nice word play. Nicely done!

[ur_ginger_girl]

great work as usual.:)

[Crystal Marie Dreier]

This is really really good! I enjoyed this poem a lot and yes writers block is the worst one of all.

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree with your words. Thanks to the internet. We can expand our poetry to the word. I believe best honor you can give a writer. Is to read his word. When I pick up a old book. Read words from the writers of the past. I believe we give them life again. Last lines are facts. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[joshua deathdealer]

again nice work.

[Perfect Mistake]

Beautifully written and is very inspiring. Lovely detail and loved the way you put them in stanzas. Great work

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

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