A wine glass of poetry to help the world go down.https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-fucking-animal/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-fucking-animal/You Fucking AnimalSat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-are-a-weapon/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-are-a-weapon/Maybe even more dangerous...Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-always-leave/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/you-always-leave/Stay or Leave...Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTdespairhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/who-lies-in-the-darkness-waiting/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/who-lies-in-the-darkness-waiting/The sad soldier standing ready on the chessboard...Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/when-you-describe-god/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/when-you-describe-god/When you describe god, what does he look like?Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/what-would-you-say/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/what-would-you-say/What would you say if I offered you freedom?Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/what-i-would-do/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/what-i-would-do/If I only had the words..Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/we-all-have-this/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/we-all-have-this/No, We all have thisSun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-keats-melancholy/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-keats-melancholy/She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die; and Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips bidding adieu.Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/tower-in-the-sky/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/tower-in-the-sky/Don't even dream of the top...Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-london-ashes/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-london-ashes/I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/the-wicked-dreamer/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/the-wicked-dreamer/The Wicked DreamerSun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThopefulhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/the-hive-queen/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/the-hive-queen/Kiss your drone and obey...Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/something-other-than-silence/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/something-other-than-silence/The quiet keeps the noise at bay...Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThopefulhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/sleep-the-dust-particle/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/sleep-the-dust-particle/You try to catch it...Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/she-called-it-rage/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/she-called-it-rage/I did too...Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTfearhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-yeats-apart/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-yeats-apart/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-wilde-gutter/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-wilde-gutter/We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-whitman-multitudes/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-whitman-multitudes/Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-rumi-wound/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-rumi-wound/The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-poe-dream/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-poe-dream/All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-plath-heart/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-plath-heart/I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-neruda-dark/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-neruda-dark/I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-hughes-life/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-hughes-life/Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-gibran-pain/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-gibran-pain/Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-dickinson-pain/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-dickinson-pain/After great pain, a formal feeling comes — the nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-oliver-instructions/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-oliver-instructions/Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-cohen-crack/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-cohen-crack/There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-bukowski-fire/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-bukowski-fire/What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-vangogh-dream/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-vangogh-dream/I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/my-perfect-picture/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/my-perfect-picture/My Perfect PictureThu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/multiply-me/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/multiply-me/She had baseball bats for eyelashes...Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/love-is-a-bullet/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/love-is-a-bullet/It has no intention or knowledge of the damage it contains...Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-hope-the-quiet-moments-haunt-you/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-hope-the-quiet-moments-haunt-you/Like they haunt me, every second in between the noise...Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-dont-think-im-dreaming/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-dont-think-im-dreaming/The air is cold...Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-could-build-you/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-could-build-you/But it's never the same...Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-chose-fire/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-chose-fire/and it consumed me...Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThopefulhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-asked-myself-once/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-asked-myself-once/A question one should never answer...Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThopefulhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-am-never-alone/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/i-am-never-alone/I am never alone - Poem by Adam AragonSun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/hellish-plans/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/hellish-plans/What hellish plans, spring forth from heaven...Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/gangster-bard-hip-hop-shakespeare/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/gangster-bard-hip-hop-shakespeare/Written for a Poetry Slam Contest ;)Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTjoyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/filled-with-words/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/filled-with-words/There are never enough words don't you...Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-picasso-receptacle/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/quote-picasso-receptacle/The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTquoteshttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/far-away-from-here/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/far-away-from-here/and further still...Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTmelancholyhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/everything-eventually/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/everything-eventually/You are the center of your universe...Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/do-not-blnk/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/do-not-blnk/I can not blink...Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMTfearhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/creative-criminal/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/creative-criminal/Let's break the laws of creativityFri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/collapsible-rhythms/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/collapsible-rhythms/Toes Tap with an imperfect passionMon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/coded-whispers/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/coded-whispers/When she speaks in machine languages I do not know...Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTdreaminghttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/america-you-beautiful-bitch/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/america-you-beautiful-bitch/She birthed me and will kill me, I'm sure of it...Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTpassionhttps://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/a-meme-within-a-meme/https://poetry-obscura.netlify.app/poems/a-meme-within-a-meme/(in the style of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Dream within a Dream”)Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTjoy