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here we go again / the tears fall once more / the source is our good friend loneliness / though i've no one in mind / i wish to get that chance / to meet that one special soul for once / t
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Two writers, different eras. / Both shocking and unacceptable / to their separate times, / encounter each other / through the imagination.
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when I felt the floor under my feet / for the first time / in a long time / I couldn't tell / if you were / picking me up / or putting me down
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your mother is convinced / of two things; / / / one - the big bang theory: / / neatly folded clothes / unravel, cover the tiled expanse / of the bedroom i once / called "home" / / dresser drawers sit / painted yellow upon /
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/ / / / Before a note—a thought: / A figure from the mind’s conservatory / Trying to find its place on the keys. / A finger falls a full foot / Onto the white; / One hammer dives out of place, meeting / Its mate—the string—in their
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i am polished in whiskey, a
child of a pure and unending moon,
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What we see in the sky fills my minds eye stars planet moons we can not move powerful objects worshipped by humanity to true religion are burden are good intensions based on development loves lust my skys my contemplation my minds meditation my eye fill f
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What's the cause for concern? the consumption from earth whats the facts? are skys turning black no state of the art prophets or facts can change the past, theres just no going back, are choices are now humanitys down are the revalations true is humanity
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by iphios
229 words,
1 day ago. Reward
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No one gets their part in the play
You can want it forever but you don’t have a say.
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Do a shot!!
Tip the bartender well.
by algoressister
173 words, 1 comment,
1 day ago. In Beat, Contemporary, Free verse, Humor, Life, Love, Personal, Rhyme, Weird. Reward
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Sticky foam of saliva / exertion dries my lips to twigs, / kissing bitter tree leaves. / / Tongue crept softy against glossed teeth / forming words in unknown languages. / Cross eyes cross referenced / against the bruised backdrop. /
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Verse 1: / airplanes masquerade as starts up high / we wish on them and wonder why / why our wishes never come true
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We are neither you nor I, / The beach-head shingles in the mist, / The grasses kiss the shivering breeze, / And fleet-eyed seagulls flock and cry / And swoop and cackle / Sailing on above and by / / The cliffs are slowly falling down. / T
by GmH
209 words,
2 days ago
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He held his breath, / and let the pain sink in, / / "Its been a long time coming." / The room began to spin / / / Cornered, / Questioning, / Incapable. / / The little pencil pusher / has been pining the wrong / su
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There once was a boy born hollow and vacant, / With skin made of bark, but nothing within. / His folks named him Marcus, Marcus the Giant, / For he grew to be tall with thick weighty skin. / / Because of his size, because he was hollow, / Bec
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/ I run my race over paper, / Trailing snail marks of ink. / I'm breathing heavy, / These cold wet whispers of words / Escape my deserted mouth. / / It's a critical marathon, / Make or break stuff. / A race I can't win with / The wor
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/ / You. / Don’t come any closer. / / My Lies will scald you, / These cards will cut you, / And this poker face, / / It will Finish you. / / A love of lies, shared by company in / Living love, dying lies. / / My bed is
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Get close. / Now closer. / Into the mind of my lunacy, / and I'll tell you why we don't belong. / Because we are different. / and irrelevantly so / because the point is, / we don't exist. / It will all change / and if we dont change wit
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Day burns down to night / Burns the edge of my soul / In the night / I break into sparks of suns / And becomes fires end / The Dust of bones / Night knifes my breath / Swollen hole in my tongue / Turn back, reverse, return / In the night
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I am seized today / by the excellence / in variety / of all that we call / human. / / I see noone stalled / in their variations. / Everyon
by mojojames
182 words, 2 comments,
2 days ago
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fevered fires pitch their forks / where stone cold sirens sleep / within this chamber hot and still / They stalk my heart / / Through valves of travel trample feet / Steadily wearily, softly they creep / Beyond the solitude of my own beats
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Why is to be loved / is to be hated / Why does kindness / Always lead to your demise / Why do friends turn out to be your most hated enimies / Why is truth reproduced with lies / Why is being loyal friends / seem to end in betr
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As the thunders and rains ride in from the sea / We are left to part from what could be / A home, a new life for young and old / Yet the drive to survive has again fallen to the mold / Nearly three years to the day, but not one has past / That w
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there was a house where every night / screams would fill the quiet / unspoken thoughts and rage leading / to a history of violence / / apparitions thin and fading / seeking their revenge / knowing little of the daytime / for twilight was
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The love I would share with you / it would be something unimaginable / I promise I would give you the world / though i have love few like i love you / I know my love is pure / and is as real as it can
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The hills in autumn are hawk-colored. / The wind flaps and screeches through dry straw, / burlap and denim wait to be stuffed and faces pai
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The little ones lay crying, / as our youths are dying. / / Life on our streets is taking our kids, / turning them into insane killers flipping their lids. / / / Our children use drugs and booze to fill their days, ruining their young l
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I sit down and type the words one by one, / finding no other place left to run. / I don`t speak the words at times I`d love to scream,but you`d only hear me in my dream . / You don`t listen its so unfair, / baby it seems like you really just don
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/ My smile was dim till you came along, / my heart no longer knew how to sing a song. / / You showed me love didn`t have to hurt, / no more would my heart be trampled in the dirt. / / You awoke a spirit that was hiding in fear, / it
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Cross-legged, clairvoyant / Spots across the sky form the precursor to / this analogous grid / Speckles through pupils / as we spit colors
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I see her now wallowing, / in her own pity and regrets. / A memeory she wants to forget. / The name is stuck in her head. / She blankly sta
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It smells good. / It looks good. / Your hungry. / Mouth watering. / Triangle of food on your tray. / Pay for it. / Walk to a table. / Sit down. / Open milk. / Take a drink. / Pick up triangle. / Take a bite. / Swallow it real quic
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Don't ever fall in love my friend. / You see it doesn't pay / Although it causes broken hearts / It happens everyday. / You wonder where he is at night / You wonder if he is true / One minute you will be happy / The next you'll find your bl
by mistysue
143 words, 1 comment,
on Sep 3 6:17 PM
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Should I do something
Totally out there
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Things have changed from the way they used to be. / It would have been wrong to think that they would stay the same / You have gone down a path that they will not follow. / But who could have expected for things to be this different / And when you
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The walls are closing in with mind crushing emptiness / / The floors don't swallow me like I wished they did, / / and the tv buzzes stati
by sparefolk
59 words, 1 comment,
on Sep 3 12:50 PM
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We are the prey / Held tenderly, / close. / Gripped in the confines / of nature / and choice. / A folded foreleg forcing shut / pressure pu
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Heaving / The breath is butchered from / Her catostrophic perulity / / Salvation situated upon the fruit of some / Unripened apparition / / The callow heart is caving / Beneath the ringing bell / of instability / / The groan of f
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