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What She TookYou didn't leave so much as / disappear – / no door, no argument, no

I Thought That Love Meant...I thought that love meant endurance that there would be suffering and pain but you always gave me assurance that you would never do it again I thought that love meant sacrifice and there would be give and take but I'm the only one paying the price and my heart needs to take a break I thought that true love lasted forever once you found it, you held on but you're giving yours to whoever making our love an oxymoron

@sherri-woodman1

What RemainsI still set two cups out in the morning / before I remember. / The kettle boils for both of us,

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no such thing as fairI see you look the other way / forbearing a feigned sigh / feeling the restrained ache

@black-swanv738

beclouded windowpanesYour breath beclouded the windowpanes / and your eyes looked a thousand miles away / My mouth was full of unanswered questions

@harlon-rivers20

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAMOUS CIVIL WAR CONDOLENCE LETTER TO YOUNG ***** MCCULLOUGH ABOUT DEATH, LOSS AND MEMORY**ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAMOUS CIVIL WAR CONDOLENCE LETTER TO YOUNG ***** MCCULLOUGH ABOUT DEATH, LOSS AND MEMORY** / Executive Mansion, / Washington, December 23, 1862.

Burning goes both waysYou can set fire to my rain / I know I won't cave / Sometimes burning goes both ways

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Cast No ShadowI don’t walk toward death. / I walk toward my fellas' needs, / Toward the kids in their beds,

petalsi close my eyes / and i am there as / my soul so leaves me

Star Light, Star Bright...First star I see tonight— / not with eyes, but with the soul's aching lid / half-lowered in the hush of dusk.

Vow Without A PromiseI couldn't think of what / To promise at this altar but / I can tell you these things:

I knew a poetess, Mariya (tribute, in my meager way)I knew her for a moment / like passages in rhyme / her heart a gentle flutter

@TemporalFugue13

THE HEART LONGSমন যায় (TITLE) / মন যায় তোমাক আকৌ এবাৰ চাবলৈ, / মন যায় তোমাক কাষত পাবলৈ,

@Blue-Sapphire18

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Palimpsest with Fire-Bombing TeethHe finds her work the way a cut finds salt— / by accident, by hunger, by the old compass that turns toward ache. / He sits with the pixeled book open like a door blown inland by weather,

Where the Faerie FellIn a wood where heather grows high and wide, / And the moon on the bracken makes silver tide, / A mortal walked where none dare stray—

When You Leave Letters For Each Other Inside The Apartment**Dear Taliia,** / Comrades making hundreds of crazy / TikTok dance videos in the forest

One Month’s MindThey gathered the way people do / when there’s no right way to gather / by accident, by necessity, by love.

LIFE SENTENCESometimes, / you are brought back to life / only to serve

@Blue-Sapphire4

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The Things I Am NotI am not the things that have happened to me. / Let those words stand like a cup on the table, / plain, chipped, steadfast ...

The Rock That MurmursThere are tales they tell by the Rheinland swell / Where the cliffs stand gaunt and grey, / And the river runs through a thousand suns

Another Failed MarriageNot just fights / And mistakes / It all culminates

@michael-marchese28

A sorrowful landa lonely mother / shops at the Tesco down the road / she holds two cold babies

CorrectionI write 'love' and my phone / writes 'you' without asking. / So I delete the u, o, y and try

Oslo Visit 1974.We bought burgers and beers / and sat at a table / where the top was sticky.

@TerryCollett29

UntitledAfter the silence fell between us / I didn’t leave all at once / I stayed in the spaces you stopped filling,

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