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good manners
i washed my hands
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before touching the universe
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(it seemed polite)
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the universe
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had not washe
@SideB
2m
#1
44
Recipe for the Country I Carry
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ingredients
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one country that no longer exists
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three countries that still do
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four kitchens
@RastislavKnezi
5m
#2
33
AFTER YEARS IVE SPENT LIFTING WITH MY BACK
fifteen perfect years i’ve spent with this cavity in my chest,
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an honest exhaustion; my mother avo
@cerisedove
1m
#3
19
Yearbook
*You*
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*Stand in my heart*
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*as headlight*
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-Elise Cowen, "You stand in my heart"
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Dark square o
@EvanS
2m
#3
19
Two days before the end of the world,
I painted my nails. I wanted them neat,
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a polished veneer; not those
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first hours of tacky lacque
@fivecrow
1m
#3
19
safety pins
an open safety pin
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sitting on my shelf-
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today, or not today
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it screams.
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perhaps i should wai
@remember_me
4m
17
the museum of almost
the museum is open only at night.
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there are no paintings.
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only things that nearly happened.
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a
@thequietdecade
3m
16
September Rain After Midnight
I once kept a damselfly wing~
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pressed in a book I never finished.
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just to remember how light esc
@Mary-Whitecrow
1m
15
ordinary
there's a girl
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an ordinary girl
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a girl everyone knows for a loud mouth
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or everyone knows for h
@wishstar06
4m
15
First Friend
There was a point in life when
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We were inseparable
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And I felt
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Our bond was beyond time
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But l
@Bipasha-dutt
1m
14
6 Kindergartners
I counted
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Listing names
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As I walked down the stairs
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Counting what was wrong with us
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Each and
@StormyClouds
2m
14
I don't exist
What does it mean to be happy?
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I know the word
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Not the warmth of it
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What does it mean to want?
@lostling_0
1m
13
Series:-September the one who love me Part:-5 Change
like an island discarded from the mainland.
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I was lonely but not alone.
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Because her love hugs me
@Acerasr
1m
12
Poetry Is A Cruel Lover
It breaks your heart,
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then places a pen
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in your trembling hand
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and asks you to make
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somethin
@Edmond1000
1m
11
The architecture of a heartbreak
I spent years in isolation, blueprinting a fortress out of silence. Brick by brick, I engineered a s
@samwarde
3m
10
Interview Rooms
~
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This place is an omen
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Dressed in a business suit,
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Black as coal
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This introduction is actua
@Carlo-C-Gomez
2m
10
Rosh Hashana
The sweet tangy taste
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of crumbly apples dipped in fragrant honey dances on my tongue
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and the sof
@lilac2012
1m
10
The Beach
There I am on the shoreline
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Wind in my hair,
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Sand on my feet,
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Sun on skin bare,
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It smells ki
@Kalliopie
2m
9
Blood.
To love is to apologise
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for the blood in someone else’s mouth
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while wanting it
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in your own. /
@SIL
1m
8
Silent Screams
SILENT SCREAMS
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I awoke to find myself cold,
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cramped in between two solid walls.
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My hands were
@ParadoxicalPenguin
3m
8
Swing
You’re smart
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They say
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You’re gifted
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I’m told
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You’re the
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Nicest, kindest
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Most intelligent
@Robynprobably
3m
8
The Last Rose of Summer
Peach in tone, fragile and sweet I heard the last rose of summer speak all the others are now long g
@sherri-woodman
1m
8
skipping stones
tonight the moon is a pebble
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a small stone
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with all the force in my body
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i skip it across plai
@kissesfromtokyo
1m
7
Camera
When I was a kid
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my mother had a camera
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and a stack of photo albums.
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We'd sit on the couch
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a
@thomas-w-case
4m
6
The Hunt
Running from your nature
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barefoot across the forest floor.
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Away from civilization—
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they can’t
@flame-heart
1m
6
Reading the Other
✦ THE SPACE BETWEEN ✦ (poem 5.)
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by Soft Relic
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I watch the way your quiet moves –
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not the silen
@SoftRelic
3m
6
Goodnight
The throne is built on marrow-dust,
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The ledger bound in skin;
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They weigh the ash of provinces /
@badwords
2m
6
My Best Friend Bird
My Best Friend Bird
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By Shawn P Cassidy
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He rises alone
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as four others fall,
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a silent challeng
@shawncassidy1967gmailcom
1m
5
your eyes seem to whisper to me when you smile
i'm trying to get some sleep,
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in that cold room with thin curtains.
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Spanish music is playing in
@guy-scutellaro
2m
5
You
I love to watch you as you wake in the morning sun
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Your long blonde hair so healthy and beautiful
@AlanBaxter
3m
5
Monsters
Monsters are closer than you think,
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Look around,
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Once or twice,
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You'll see plenty,
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Enough to
@radiohead
1m
5
The stars
I saw the stars as I never had —
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The sky's cold gaze upon my chest,
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My skin is freezing, icy swe
@mupohob666
1m
4
the sea
I stand on the shore
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the sky heavy
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leaden
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as the white, foaming waves
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rise higher and higher
@Agnes-de-Lodz
2m
4
yellow gravity
stork's nests against a wild sky
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mind itself is a migrant bird
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or a boneless song
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the roundnes
@irinia
1m
3
Want
I want to scream
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witness my desperation
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watch me need and reach and grab
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please, words are not
@pennygum
1m
3
tamam shud
we planted a cherry tree in the middle of my room
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the fruit is sweet, sickeningly
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my father chec
@saint-sabeer-amin
2m
3
Some Rainy Days
Some days the sky
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turns dark early.
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Pink is obscured by gray.
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Rain against the window,
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cloud
@Twc
2m
3
Circa 2012
Amma wakes before the sun.
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By the time she comes to wake me,
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her hair is still wet,
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and she sm
@wordsbehindcurtain
4m
3
The circle
I haven’t had
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a peaceful night’s sleep
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in a month—
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plagued by vivid dreams
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that scare me
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f
@Darksoul
1m
3
The Ghost That Stays
⭐THE MUSEUM OF GHOSTS (a three-part poem cycle)
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You linger in the doorway
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long after I’ve walked
@VerseBuster
2m
3
Because I Loved You
I loved you in the way
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that ruins people quietly.
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Not the kind of love that asks to be saved— /
@shoaib005
3m
3
Anchored eternal.
I'll just stay here
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As all else moves on
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Excited to do things
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To achieve
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To belong
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They wa
@Jimmysilker
1m
3
You
You did something wrong, didn't you?
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Don't try to deny it, the clock tells me it's true.
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But don
@Archorex
1m
3
My Purrson
I chased a crimson thread,
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Not knowing where it led.
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It curled around my little paws
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And drew
@Shiro
1m
3
A pair of handle
steel utensils on the top rack,
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dust motes settling
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on the top shelf,
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stacked beside cardboard
@VanessaRue
1m
2
Liquid Assets
They teach you to think of the body
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as something private—
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a room with no public entrance,
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a li
@ikaika-metcalfe
4m
2
If I’m Wrong
I’ve been walking without knowing where I’m going,
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Carrying words that I never start showing.
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I
@OTO
3m
2
A DROP OF RAIN
A drop of rain
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fell on the parched ground,
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scattering grains of sand around.
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A farmer looked u
@Blue-Sapphire
1m
2
The Girl Who Forgot How to Walk
Once there was a girl who woke
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With morning singing in her bones;
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The kettle purred, the sparrow
@OnceMoreIntoTheFrayDearFriends
4m
2
at Chapel's bench
windy sunny Sunday
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sitting at Chapel’s bench beckoning the east
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Crickets whispering
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Clouds soj
@EvelynYiningChen
1m
2
Never Let Me Go
Wait a minute
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My heart is pounding
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I need a second
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To hold my breath
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To hold you close befor
@BleedingHearts
1m
2
Now Hiring Spiders, Because We’re Firing Flies
We’re now hiring spiders
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because we’re firing flies
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Of course we pay shit wages
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and spin a web
@TheBoozerCruiser
1m
2
Exile
I will talk to rivers
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And walk into the sea
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To ask the waves for answers,
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Do we really need to
@RWRutledge
1m
1
The River
The river does not care whether I live or die.
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In the spring, he swells with the rain and flows sw
@bdlukey
4m
1
I saw her again
I saw her again
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This time she was taller than me
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Before I would tease her all the time about bei
@Ari_
5m
1
I miss you
Sunlight shine pink through my curtains
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reflecting on the picture on my shrine
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of my dead mother
@Evening
1m
1
To Sleep is a Nightmare
I was following a nuclear cloud
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when it suddenly came toward me
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splitting the atoms of my mind /
@oldpoetMK
2m
1
Bloom Regardless
In the flower shop, some blossoms are chosen to rest in loving hands.
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Others remain beneath the sa
@leenuswrites
1m
1
Reborn.
Shifting back to my world
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From many worlds before
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Feeling like my old self now
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What a wonderfu
@Shirlthepearl
1m
1
She Collected My Ghosts
-> Dedicated to all who have been used in the name of love.
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She used me
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the way no one
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should
@Rosita26
4m
1
Not a Trophy Wife
Months and years have passed
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since I first heard the words,
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“Trophy wife.”
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And somehow, only n
@Bellah
6m
1
A Drunk Horse
Why are you here?
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Ive had one too many.
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Ones too much,
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leaves me just as empty.
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How did you
@Philia
1m
1
Grandmother
in a healthcare unit everything is movable the beds, the chair, the BP apparatus even a mountain on
@Zahra
1m
1
Dreams of the Demon Hag 1: Her Flowing Spaghetti Hair
Are your memories, dear reader,
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Like mine, locked, blocked dreams?
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Does anyone visit?
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With fur
@noollah
3m
1
Contemplation Interpretation Exaltation
Think word association
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The First Proposal
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An exercise to Increase Word Recall
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A regular person
@cj-sutherland
8m
1
A Law Against Leaving
Gravity never called herself jealous.
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She preferred devoted.
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She kept both hands around the ankl
@SashaRHollow
2m
1
Time and Ideas, briefly considered
Occupied leisure years, too old to lose everything.
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Looking through lists of never before known kn
@kenpepiton
2m
1
My Little Duckling
My little duckling,
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we share the same brown eyes.
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When I close mine now, I see you
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but from a
@kat-p
2m
1
READY
The clay smells of cooling iron.
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We stand in the furrow — full-grown, straight,
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unable to bend e
@lyubishkindmitry
3m
1
I Lease My Life But Own My Soul
No one ever makes it out alive,
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but living doesn't mean "To Survive."
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We clock the hours, pay th
@WylEWriter
1m
1
Tired
I am tired,
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I dare you to assume i am cranky and deprived of my sacred six hours,
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it just isn't
@the_minds_shore
2m
1
Peaches
a peach sits on the counter
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getting softer
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nobody eats it
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the skin has that little blush
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aro
@thepaperroute
1m
1
We Knew The Difference
“It’s ok Honey, Mommy and Daddy are just having a disagreement.”
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No, Mom, you’re not
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Disagreemen
@ellis-reyes
1m
1
Hyperthymia
Today I will
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Talk about what's on my mind
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Wander through what's on yours
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But I won't be sittin
@CognitiveConflict
3m
1
Monsoon
Eyes closed, I wait
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for each cloud to merge into
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a gathering crescendo
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for the light to cast s
@vitae
1m
1
Full Name
I love when you say my name.
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and to be honest,
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I really love saying your name.
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Yes,
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I love y
@C0LOMB1ANP03T
1m
1
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