July 2026

The luckiest version of meI sometimes wonder if there is a version of me who has never questioned whether things would work ou

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Distance for Directionsome evenings / the light forgets / which side of the window / it belongs to / a chair / becomes alm

@RastislavKnezi2m

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The CuratorShe blocked three people this week. / Possibly for breathing incorrectly. / The criteria remained pr

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The Years We Never Shared->>> Not every love begins at the same hour of life. He was in his forties, she in her fifties, when

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Carrying the SecretThe air thickens— / a secret carried too long, / a truth tucked between heartbeats / that learned to

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To my daughtermy daughter, / live / as if the wave / the sea / and the body / were never separate / we are women /

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The Last CitizenI made a country of the wound. / At first, only a border: / a line drawn around what happened / so n

@DissonantValues4m

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MedicineImmortal touches, fervently branding me, / possessed eyes cast the malison upon us, / a quiet slip i

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Down Falls SkyThe parachute refused itself, silk argument / collapsing into the shape of what it wouldn't do, / an

@slowunbraiding2m

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Sunday oilEvery Sunday, / she sits me on the floor / between her knees— / a towel over my shoulders, / a bottl

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The TriangleWhen I was barely grown, / The world was clear and clean— / *A throne was just a throne,* / *A queen

@OnceMoreIntoTheFrayDearFriends3m

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One WishIf I only had one wish / on this bright and beautiful day, / I would wish that you were here with me

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WhichSurvivor or victim? Which do I play? / Is it forever or just for today? / The shadows in the mirror

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The bottle we share together-> her version / The bottle makes me question / why am I with this guy? / Then I remember: / He is t

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GHOST XVIII.–“The Quiet Visitor to the Museum of Small Disturbances”⭐ MINI‑PLAY in three versions / ✦ VERSION 1 — (COMIC – the Mop shines here) ✦ / Cast: / Curator – ne

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SomedaySomeday my favorite neologism will be our names spoken together as one / And as the syllables melt,

@Petrichorblue1m

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ShatteredI took the necklace she gave me / Tried to take it apart / And make it my own / Something that final

@StormyClouds2m

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To Helen, A HandbasketI leave it to you with fondness. / How you used to fill it on those lazy Sundays / with fresh blooms

@Carlo-C-Gomez2m

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I Write My Secrets On The ShoreI write my secrets / On the shore, / And let them get erased / By the tides, / Knowing the oceans /

@Bipasha-dutt1m

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I bet on losing dogsI bet on losing dogs / Because I see their fear / Their hunger and pain, / I bet on losing dogs / Be

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ThirstThe digital demiurge begins to bloat, / A silicon Golem forged of stolen grease; / It wraps a copper

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The GiftWhen I was made from stardust / And mixed up into a soul / Before I could be gifted a body / I was h

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Sunshinenavigates / through hedges, lilacs, and greens, / creates / shadow to trade with and for light, / wh

@EvelynYiningChen2m

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Happy birthday.I blew out the candles / But something felt wrong. / Another year I suffered, / Another year that fe

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Cigarette Smokei bought your cigarettes last week. / you’ve been gone for a while, / longer than i let myself count

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PerfectThings don't have to be perfect / It can be okay / To be exhausted / And sleep deprived / You can be

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fireflieseach stab in my mind is a firefly. / so magical and elegant / at least to your eye. / but in mine it

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“You”From a thousand people, I saw you. / And even now, my eyes find only you.

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One Hundred TwoTomorrow she’d be / one hundred two. / Feels like a number from another language / now. / She’s been

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PerfectWe used to steal food / and clip coupons / Now we shop at Whole Foods / and buy reusable bags / We u

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Black RainbowI gathered the brightest pigments of my life / on a worn watercolor palette, / tried blending them,

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ProvidenceI know not / whether God sent thee unto me / to be loved, / or merely / to teach me / how profound /

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Love and ArtLove and art / Live in the same vein, / In the same corner of the mind, / In the same chamber of the

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Wings Against My HeartThe dreams of a child / Silence of a girl / What's deep inside / Waiting to escape / The truth will

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The Shape of a Leaf Falling**I. Before We Ever Learn The Names of Things** / they wait for us / with the patience / of rivers.

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Februaryyou live in my belly / the size of a lime / I can’t wait until it’s time / to see your beautiful fac

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It's not too badAfter all, nothing bad is happening - / it's raining, but the umbrella is in the hallway, / the post

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Chess movesShe will rise to become the morning Sun in my eyes / and the spring in my step, but She's not awake

@john-edward-smallshaw1m

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Curves, Commas, Curlicues...the title arrives in the 45 seconds transverse from sortie coffee / machine excreting magic elixir a

@nat-lipstadt3m

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We played houseYou know, it's perfectly fine, / she was a good friend of mine / I have not seen her since then, / t

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When I sit quietly...When I sit quietly / At my front window, / I can let everything settle, slightly, / I can let things

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UntitledOf our summers, / All I remember are the chocolates you hid in the shade of your jacket / As we trai

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Closer Than You Think"CLOSE SO CLOSE" – A five-part mini-cycle: (part I) / There’s nothing subtle / about the way you pul

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FlammarionWho wants / our faces, / our doubts? / our heads piercing / the skin of the world, / where the cold

@Agnes-de-Lodz2m

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First ImpressionWhen I saw it – it was like a promise. / With perfect lives and perfect people, / Where pale stone m

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They Call Us COCKROACHES!We try to fly, / in the sky, / which seems to lie, / only to have our wings cut off. / A world where

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I drown in youI was an earth sign. / And you were a water sign. / I let myself drown in your eyes, / And I let mys

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I Will Not Die in My Fathers ArmorI could not fit in my father’s armor. / Not because I was too small, / but because I outgrew it / be

@anomalous-revelations3m

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WannaCryFrying eggs sunny side up / With a dash of scrambled signal / And a sprinkle of half-truths on top /

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Natured little evilI scraped the sand / from the creek beds flow / Looking for gold in the words / that I hoped to know

@South-by-Southwest2m

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Puddle of Summer Noon*Your eyes were a puddle* / *Of summer noon.* / *In your dance of honey* / *The effulgence of the su

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THE WAY WE METWe met not like two drops of water / with each other and become one, / but like two tectonic plates.

@Blue-Sapphire1m

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Between Nothing and MeaningWe walk with empty hands, / yet gather sunsets, broken clocks, / and the names of forgotten stars— /

@leenuswrites1m

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The Performer in the AtticThe roof box lay buried in dust, / where spiders had spun their webs into woollen rolls. / I sighed,

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I Never Became What the World WantedI have never truly understood myself, / Yet no one ever understood me better than I did. / I longed

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The Nights I Awake For YouI learned to stay awake before I learned anything else, Other kids were told bedtime stories. I list

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butterflewWhenever I / saw you, I would / get butterflies / whenever we / walked together / and your / fingers

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If I Meet You in Another LifeAnd if I meet you in another life— / don't recognize me. / Don't smile. Don't speak. / Just let me w

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Deja VuA rose from a window / looks like any other rose, / but as the old lady stares / out through the thi

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MonstersYou're afraid of the monsters in your closet, / I'm afraid of the monsters they call gods.

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rainrain kissed me / warm enough / to melt what I hid / when even rain was kind

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The Timeless Thread of True AffectionThere was love that no storm could betray, / A bond time nor distance could fray. / Not for beauty o

@Marwan-Baytie1m

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If I died tomorrowIf I died tomorrow / I wonder / What will you remember me as? / Will you remember the vibrant kid /

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Where did it go?Where did it go? / Was it lost in the duvets? / Or the cushions? / No one could have taken it / Sinc

@WhiteredNightshade1m

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"Dead Caress""Breathe! Breathe! / I say. / Breathe! Breathe! / My lord. / Your pain may be great / The struggle m

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Borrowed eyesi never noticed / the lines / on my skin. / or the hair / that grew / exactly where / it was meant t

@wordsbehindcurtain2m

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Loving GraceIn pain and suffering, we feel the lash of correction / At times we don't understand why? / We see o

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My ObituaryWhen I die, / will my obituary say / that I preferred wired headphones / that I liked the slow ritua

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We will get there in the endWe will get there in the end / Making yourself proud / And feeling like a real person in this world,

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Bleeding Heart, Weeping WillowMom said the name first. / Like it mattered. / Bleeding heart. / I thought, / that can’t be real. /

@thomas-w-case2m

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Decayed EarthTeaching is planting seeds in decayed earth. / Glowing screens steal tomorrow's possibilities. / Soc

@SashaRHollow1m

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Best FriendI remember when she told us, / "You can't date your best friend.". / But the truth is I never though

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Storm Without RainStorms pass over our heads / Not a drop has fallen / And yet we run from the bleak shelter of home

@BleedingHearts1m

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Copious amounts of youYou weren't saving me, / You were destroying me, / Absorbing me, / Free from sin, / You were absolve

@Tfburkepoetry1m

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what hangs in the balance (1): while you weren't lookingi am watching the way you peel an orange. / you take the skin off in a clean, unbroken spiral, / dro

@the_softest_thing6m

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The Trees Were Here FirstShe always felt / Her wounds around the trees / They kept her / imperceptibly alive / Still her legs

@ladyofirepoetry2m

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For SomeoneThis world feels like a frantic, hurried race, / That pulls the spark and spirit from your eyes, / B

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