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**

[Perdition]

"permanently under construction"....Man do I ever know the freaking feeling of that, but this one is real...it's true and mad gone happy. Happy with a capital "crap"..I love it. Actually forget everything I just said ...it needs work :)!...jk
Nice to meet a poet who understands the whole "prophets of the invisible or intangibles" thing. Can't find a line I haven't crossed in this poem yet so I say, "IT"S PERFECT!!". Thanks~

[Chloe_Spence]

Wow... this is one of those poems which so evidently conveys emotion- the words clearly state what needs to be said, and doesn't hold back. Fantastic :)

[John Stussy]

So, a couple of things: Was there a reason for your opting for the Spanish translation of synesthesia in the third stanza? And in the sixth stanza, i think "tare" should be "tear".

Other than that, this was a fantastic poem. You captured the essence of what it is to be a poet and conveyed that way of life very well. Excellent work.

[Fire Mage Andrea]

It's quite thought provoking. It seems to bring out the emo side in you.
"We connect in a fashion
as we wear words" was one of my favourite lines in this piece.

[Lyn Anderson]

This is a really great poem -- I only have one question, not sure why TARE instead of tear? Is it intentional to denote something I am not clever enough to decipher? Or is it already in one of the 105 reviews given this poem. Honestly, it makes me feel like a dope even asking after all 2000 plus views.

[Ty]

I feel like I need to wake up to this every morning. Wow, thank you for this.

[мalғy]

This is honestly the first poem I have read that captures the writing point of view to me, completely perfect
:)

[Megan E Twenter]

this is phenomenal. i love it

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Much Thanks Megan

[Raymond Federle]

what can I say that the others have not? Well done. :) This one goes in my favs.

[Raymond Federle]

Had to come back for a second look.. still one of my favs.. Well done Samsam. :)