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Jul 4, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Allamanda
How tragically fitting now. Midsummer XXVII Derek Walcott "Certain things here are quietly American - that chain-link fence dividing the absent roars of the beach from the empty ball park, its holes muttering the word umpire instead of empire; the...
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Aug 31, 2018Aug 2018

Posted by azzow2
Went much simpler with this one. Fleeting: I scat to the door not sure my feet ever glanced the floor. Off I scoot something making me want to hoot. Thunk and chunk my heart pounds with aspirations. What has scurried up my sleeve, that ...
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Oct 20, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by nutrition_nerd
Thunder My body trembling with tears that racked my body and shook me to my core. I wanted to make love to you, beneath the starry sky of a moonless desert summer night.  But I could never tell you that. They'd have to torture me, to get me ...
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Oct 20, 2018Oct 2018

Posted by nutrition_nerd
Shut it Out The stars shine brighter at 3 a.m., I think. Warm lake water, smelling of earth and wildlife. Peace. So quiet. Wading in, feeling my clothes stick my skin like a wet suit. He's rather persuasive, if I'm honest. His spontaneity ...
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Jan 20, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by Petter
What is this spell? What is this spell? It makes me pine And wish that we could intertwine; Conjoined in body and in soul, Our essence but a single whole. What is this spell? This sorcery That takes such powerful hold of we? ...
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Mar 22, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Allamanda
TODAY, ANOTHER UNIVERSE by Jane Hirshfield The arborist has determined: senescence beetles canker quickened by drought but in any case not prunable not treatable not to be propped....
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May 17, 2020May 2020

Posted by Allamanda
A favourite poem, it seems more and more apt: Good Bones BY MAGGIE SMITH Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ...
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May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by Unconventional
It was only a passing moment As quick as the wink of an eye Two hearts were bared A love was shared An echo throughout history and time
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May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by anti-augustine49
Aphrodite: Goddess of love, Beguiler of humanity, Your creature comforts, Your uncomfortable creature, If I am not your slave, what am I? Beach born love, crest borne love, Of waves in sprays of foam; An oyster sans pearl, now only pearls satisfy, ...
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Petter
A Tale About Nothing On an Indian package holiday Went Mr and Mrs Slim And, being "the trip of a lifetime", Took their 8 year old boy, young Tim. They were on a Jumbo safari When two steeds decided on fun. Tim saw the massive organ And, ...
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Kymmacg
Rapture ethereal reality gilt edged edged in guilt. Defined without objectivity yours or mine hers or his Created within ardor unbeknownst chance moments moments chanced Enhanced by inescapable fates met in love claimed in love ...
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May 23, 2018May 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
The Zombies of Austin Indiana In Austin there are zombies Who roam the streets at night They eat up big salamis And shoot up out of sight In the park there they got needles That somebody used before With microscopic evils That you don't see anymore...
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May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
One from a series... Talking to the Cat 11 You're lucky, you beast. No social life at all. No guilt. "Should I have eaten that bird I killed?" No Free Will (ha!). Just your big ol' instinct, whatever in the hell that really is. You sleep ten ...
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May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
TRINITY When the sun came up in the middle of the night White Sands melted and flowed out of sight As time flits by on wings of crepe A glassy crater that's forever rules this landscape
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May 25, 2018May 2018

Posted by QuintKnickers
KIlling , stopping deaths Stopping worship wasting breath Hating and killing in his name Wake up please. Let's stop this game. You're nog special You’re just like me Imperfect and broken We want to be free Free from pain Free from regret Free ...
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Jun 1, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
THE HEART What's this? She says, waving the Op. Ed. i've just written in my face. You never cared about politics. You're a fiction writer. Why don't you write another novel? Writing a novel must come from the heart, i say, trying to keep my ...
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Jun 6, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
Hey, b, see (ABC) the shorty down to rep from right to left with me She want the "D" my boy "E" may see her as an effigy (F & G) I show her in the "H" (Houston) "I" stay on the "J" (job) of flow endlessly While haters want the "K" (Kris) to take an ...
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Jun 6, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Ciravolostone
Hey it has been a while since I put anything here and then I saw one of the members asking for us to get jiggy with it. (posting pieces) This first piece was written in 1979. I was already over monotheism. The poem is about how monotheism is a ...
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Jun 6, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
"Go And Get It" In a universe where many people play for keeps Go against the odds, grind time before they lay to sleep Bright gears through light years through solar plans portrayed to reap The rays are deep To show the auras before me displayed to...
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Jun 7, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
"Something About You" It's something bout the way you walk, it's something bout the way you smile It's something bout the way you talk, you're stunting out the way you style It's something bout the way you make my heart skip, curate a mile It's ...
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Jun 7, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
Houses or Homes safe as houses? Everything bad has happened to me in a house. Even homes aren’t always safe, though we hide there and rest and turn our heads toward the wall at end of day. not safe as caves? Dark holes in the fortress rock for ...
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Jun 11, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
LOU Trapped in an alley, and I can't run Facing a man with a cross and a gun His face is blue He says my name is Lou And it's my sacred duty to kill you His eyes flick around, gun falls to the ground He throws the cross in the sewer and before...
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Jun 11, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Petter
Laugh .... and laugh .... and laugh ... Bio means life, Yet mine has seen more .... .... of death ...... or near death;...
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Jun 11, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by StJohn
Cathedral. The cold stone rises, set by hands that never knew the planet's course. Stone demons lurch and leer, elected saints stand reverently by With the patience and awe of passing centuries. The glass is lovely still, as is the golden dust of ...
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Jun 13, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by rcandlish
Give me a "G" Give me an "O" Give me a "D" Jesus Christ! Somebody please pass me the toilet paper!
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Posted by EntheogenFanI wrote this about a crazy girl who I loved like crazy. She made my entire life feel like insanity.

Posted by AllamandaNot in the current meaning of 'dog-whistle' but I think people will like this poem.

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Posted by RemiforceDEATH IS SO FINAL--Youth La Boheme days in our small boyhood town, drinking cheap wine, smoking grass all night in some artist's studio, staggering forth into the bleary translucent twilight dawn.

Posted by RemiforceWHEN MY BROTHER LEFT FOR NAM--We looked across the field of death & maiming, in our youthful half knowing, the war raging in the media suddenly close & personal,like a car crash We drank to ...

Posted by RemiforceMY AGE IS IMPATIENT.

Posted by BohoHeathenThis is just a poem of past experiences.

Posted by PetterAbstinence indeed!

Posted by AstralSmokeWanting Wanting to be broken utterly split apart with a mighty tearing like an apple broken to unfold the delicate open veined petal pattern inside the fruit .

Posted by MiizzunderstoodWE WILL BE HOME SOON MOM.

Posted by Stargazer13And this is what you mean to me… That I see beauty and feel lovely in a dark, broken and rusted world Because you love me, I’ve been brave And opened into full bloom beneath the gaze of ...

Posted by Stargazer13Dog days are over Picking every four leaf clover Gonna break out of every box they put me in This soul is hungry and divine sugar my sin Personal evolution Fated love the revolution Raw ...

Posted by Stargazer13I've heard the stories of your empty world Devoid of soft touches And the rare souls that cross lifetimes, to see again through eyes captured in silent and consummate knowing I've listened to ...

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