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**

[Trace]

Do we write for our own benefit or for the admiration of others. It is always a wonderful feeling to write something that we think is good, and have someone else think so too. But often we write and hope to get some recognition, only to have our work ignored. So many write, so few get noticed.
It is that special time when the two come together and make us feel our words mean something.

Thank you for putting it so eloquently. Trace

[Mark Heathcote]

Fabulously written loved the slashing with ballpoint pens.

[Q.]

I am truly amazed by the perfect use of words to describe something hidden behind a synonymous word. You're verses is as lucrative as it is allusive. I'm proud to have come across your work. And the last verse is my favorite ;)

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thank you Q.

[Michael Heasley Jr]

This is the first poem I've read from you and I'm so happy I did. Captures everything the soul goes through to bring words to the reader. Powerful :)

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Thanks very much

[Akshay Rawal]

Ma'am excuse me, but there is a stanza which says" wanting waiting wishing for an art critic to tare us apart". if you have deliberately written 'tare' instead of 'tear' then ignore this else you can edit it.
nicely written, very light-structured we really are prophets of the 21st century . a few lines on this context
Unsuccessful Writers are free
Because people hear what they want to hear
Successful ones are their slaves
Thanks Samantha

[bablioe223]

We are people who write. We love imagination and love stories. We speak!

[Ed Rector]

You spreak the truth about us but there's no deliverance. I'd like to hear the spoken version of this.

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Amazing art of yours, when you've heard it all, what can I tell you?

If, when, why, what, have you got it together if so how often.

[The Good Hurt]

'Hanging our pain like paintings
in an art exhibit entitled
"Emotional Poets"'

Some really nice lines in here...

[Astro]

You're the genuine article aren't you? But, of course you are, that's why I find my way back into your nightclub to glide through the colored lights of your mind time and time again. I really hope you perform this one somewhere, someday, because, fabric of your fashion is dyed to perfection and begs for display. Very cool.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

wow thanks yeah one of my dreams is to do spoken word but there is no artistic scene where I live and I would have stage fright thats something Ive never even done been on stage not even as a lil kid and I would freeze or something lol but I may try it one day if given the chance

[Astro]

Do it in costume at first, imagine you are someone else who's impervious to nerves and hecklers. Though I doubt you would encounter either if you stood and spoke these words with passion. Find a coffee shop willing to set something up, call out to the poetic voices in your area and MAKE a scene.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

lol costume good idea maybe but that would make me feel even more out of place I dont care about hecklers I say f**k them lol I may just do that Ive tried to do the whold make a vid of it and put it on youtube but Im such a perfectionist its like lets do another take haha

[Astro]

Great artists are never happy until it's perfect so, to this I say it's no surprise. Should you complete your masterpiece in digital form, grant me access please I would be happy to adore.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

I may just go the digital route and if I do post it Ill send you my youtube link