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**

[Joshua Amos Graff]

Excellent imagery and alliteration.

[M P Ramesh]

samantha,

It is the manifesto of the CLASS. Words are the metaphysical problem of today. Writers being custodians of them have the full right over them.Others can envy. It's their right. The members of the class are poor, weak, and can easily be intimidated. But rich in aesthetic plain where others have no passports to register.
Can I remind you?

Hungary Petofi: I will sacrifice my land for my love
my love for my freedom


Malayalam Asan: Servitude is nightmarish to proud(writers) than death itself

Malyalam P. Kuhiraman Nair:

"One should have absolute right
to live with the attire(shape)
to one's wish and will of the day "


Carry on..............


M P Ramesh

[Jibey]

Poetry is like childbirth... painful, bloody, but finally satisfying... Of course, being a male, I would say that, wouldn't I!

Beauty seldom comes without pain, the agony precedes the ecstasy

[Omikron]

Wow. Just wow.

Theres one line that strikes me extra hard: "Because we are so
tightly put together that we love to be torn apart"

I get shivers just by thinking about it. So many thoughts in so little text, I simply love it. This is a unique poem, a rare kind. I love the fact that it's a neverending poem, it makes it easy for the reader to continue the story in his/her mind.

According to me that isn't necessary, the thoughts displayed are more than enough for someone to see what a good piece of work this is, and what a good portrait of reality and the walk to fame and attention is. Applause.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Omikron I'm sure you are aware of this sites troll right he says everyone here is a plagiarizer and he attacks everyone here even Tate Morgan so Please ignore this trash his name is oh I forget lol but wordman knows more than I as he got the FBI or something into this cause this guy is stalking us our fb calling wordman and making more threats telling me and my husband and fellow poet here stevo the poet to kill our baby or he would so be careful do not reply or acknowledge him he makes thousands of fake pages here as well

[David Scott]

Re read this one tonight.
I think I enjoyed it even more this go around.
Good to read your work again.

[M.Babu]

I love this. Great read as always!
~M.Babu~

[Caradoc]

"We turn
the pain
into art
and scars
into deeply
embedded
ink wells"

^ How deeply do I feel that stanza. You have captured it perfectly. Adding this one to my favorites.

Amazingly well done. Bravo.

-Caradoc

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thank you very much Caradoc

[V]

It's spelled "synaesthesia" (or "synesthesia"), but I didn't really expect you to know any better.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

It's the Spanish spelling for it jackass but I don't expect a troll like you to be educated enough to know more than one language seeing how you barely know English