The First Whisper

a place where the silence softens…

Welcome to the quiet you’ve carried for too long.
This is where the silence breaks…not with a scream,
but with the soft, deliberate tremble of truth.
Every poem here is a whisper you weren’t allowed to speak…until now.

…and ends with your first whisper.

The Latest Whisper to Break the Silence…

Dark figure cloaked in storm light stands among wilted flowers as crows circle overhead.

In His Embrace, I Slowly Died

He gave me what my father never could—then tore it away in the night. Beneath his caress, bruises bloomed. His words bewitched the ghosts of my heart. In his embrace, I withered, unseen by the world.

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Whisper of the Moment

“We are the ghosts we were told to silence.”

Recent Whispers You Might Have Missed…

two young men embracing under a moonlit sky beside a vintage car on a deserted road

Fast Cars & Fragile Hearts

Two boys in the wild West Country heat—one with a fast car, the other with a fast heart. They fled shame, found love, and left their bruises in the dust of open roads. A tragic, aching freedom lives on in the memory of speed and stars.

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A man clutches his head in despair inside a dark, vaulted corridor lined with gothic arches and shadows.

Mental Agony

Trapped in a corridor of hallucinations and horrors, a haunted soul questions reality, memory, and the mind’s last scream.

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Choose a whisper that matches your ache

Man screaming and reaching out from a dark bed, haunted by a shadowy figure in the background.

Tormented Love

I laid all my bets on men I hadn’t met; strangers on the street, and hoped they wouldn’t cheat. This poignant lyric poem captures the aching contradiction of longing for love after being emotionally ravaged by it.

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A man kneels alone in a stone prison cell as serpents slither from the walls and dim light shines from above

Mental Fortress

Within frost-slick walls a heart waits, its breath a fog of dread; serpents hiss and conscience bleeds until even daylight feels like iron bars.

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Blood-streaked sink in dim, tiled bathroom with chains and a shadowy mirror above

Danced the Razor’s Edge

A sorrowful meditation on betrayal and self-destruction, this poem dances the fine line between desperation and release. It bleeds with the ache of unrequited hope, where pain becomes prayer and silence becomes a scream.

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Trace the thread of what shaped you

A shadowed child crouched in a rain-soaked forest, surrounded by mud and fading light.

When No One Saw and No One Heard

Buried beneath silence, a boy’s cries fade into the earth: unheard, unseen and unhealed.

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two young men embracing under a moonlit sky beside a vintage car on a deserted road

Fast Cars & Fragile Hearts

Two boys in the wild West Country heat—one with a fast car, the other with a fast heart. They fled shame, found love, and left their bruises in the dust of open roads. A tragic, aching freedom lives on in the memory of speed and stars.

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A kneeling young man in a dark ruined corridor, with candles and a rocking horse at his feet, watches a shadowy figure walk away

Big Daddy

A heart-wrenching lyric poem about father loss, neglect and the quiet devastation that followed. Through strangers and shadows, one boy tried to replace the love he never received — and never forgot.

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A shadowy figure looms over a child's empty bed on Christmas Eve, with a faintly glowing tree in the corner

The Night Everything Broke

A quiet, devastating lyric poem about a boy witnessing the moment his family began to fall apart. Christmas Eve brings not comfort, but the first tremor of lifelong grief.

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Bare-chested man bound in chains, silenced and shadowed by a dark demonic figure

You Took Away My Voice

A fierce, defiant protest against forced silence and psychological abuse, this poem exposes the cruelty of control, the violence of censorship, and the quiet war waged against a soul struggling to speak.

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