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Raw With Love
little dark girl with / kind eyes / when it comes time to
Charles Bukowski
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Mad Girl's Love Song
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; / I lift my lids and all is born again. / (I think I made you up inside my head.)
Sylvia Plath
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The Icecream People
the lady has me temporarily off the bottle / and now the pecker stands up / better.
Charles Bukowski
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Imperfect Perfection
I dreamt that I'd tell you, / I dreamt I'd convince you. / I dreamt you would love me
@jellyfish
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An inadequate poem
A poem falls short; I'd like, instead / to draw a single line from me to you / and watch it curl into a word
@marsha-singh
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You Learn (by Jorge Luis Borges)
*The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. / Fortunes were smaller then as well.* / (The Elderly Lady)
@st64
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Equality (He For She)
Females and males are one in the world, / although that is not the belief that has been furled. / We are told that one gender is better than the other,
@Shannon-Perry
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The theory of letting go
Dear J, / I may be at a loss for words half the time, and the other half I might have too much to say, but I can almost always say this; I love you. I have felt fear and I have felt bravery and I have felt loss. I can look pictures of us and I can recall everything we did that day. I can listen to videos of you and I can tell what you felt. And I know that you didn't think I was paying attention, but I knew how you looked when you thought something was unfair. And I knew the look in your eyes when you saw the light just right in a sunset and you knew that nothing could ever be recreated quite like that. I felt the same way about you. / Wherever you are, know that loving someone isn't a matter of feeling something or not feeling something. It's a matter of knowing what you're feeling and when you need to let go.
@claire-elizabeth
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The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
You lay in a field of flowers counting each bird that passes overhead. / You've erased concern and decided to live for the moment because you always would say, "we might be dead by tomorrow." / Flowers grew from your heart and bloomed across your lungs,
@morganmercury
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The Concision
~for L3igh~ / the briefness of brevity, / the quality of giving
@nat-lipstadt
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FRIENDSHIP OVER LOVE
After getting so close to you and also getting to close to loosing you forever, I decided to redefine importance. While I was redefining importance, I got to understand how far friendship can stretch. After that, I came to a conclusion that friendship is a lot more greater than love. / Below I'm going to give some emphasis which I hope will make you understand. / LOVE
@joy-nteh
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Anxiety
Everyone is staring / You're trying so hard to stay standing / But your heart is racing
@Jellyfish
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atoms
i’ve given up on days that begin in late afternoon, / skipped breakfast and lunch, / days that fade slowly and end with
@madisen
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The Moon and the Sun
The Sun shines, / the fog blinds, / together they make,
@barry-pietrantonio
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Night Skating at Porter Lake
For my cousin, Chris Goldrick / Lacing my skates / after walking two miles
@elizabeth-balise
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Technology
In a world without technology, / can you imagine how it would be? / To not have any lights.
@esther-pang-hui-min
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A Search Within Has Left Without
In a wakeful contradiction, / It lays fact between my fiction. / Tangling subatomics,
@bad-luck
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Turpentine
I don’t care how / or care what you do / to make it happen;
@jn
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A confession.
most people see me as / a happy person because / i laugh easily,
@9913____
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there are only dates
i don't watch home movies / hate them / reason being because
@TomLeveille
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Monologue of Unrequited Love
Someone who means a great deal to me once said that you can’t find love. You can’t go searching for it, it finds you. It finds you out of nowhere and once it’s there you can’t ignore it. I thought that was a cute way of putting things and continued on with life, waiting for love to find me. But then I got impatient and tried to find it on my own, but it never happened. I was terrified of relationships for some unknown reason or past trauma, and I never found it. Until it found me. / It steamrolled me completely out of nowhere and I didn’t see it coming. It was the worst and best thing that ever happened to me because it was beautiful to feel so deeply for someone and not feel any fear to let myself fall. For my best friend, someone I could spend hours talking to. / Only you didn’t feel it too. Apparently you can ignore it, or maybe fate is sick and twisted and Cupid only hit me.
@chloe-16
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With My Orange Pen
I tried to / write / a poem about you
@megan-grace
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When the heart of a poet gets broken
He doesn't burn photographs / He doesn't join therapy sessions / He doesn't smoke too many cigarettes
@Meera
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Our Broken Education System
Our parents are always telling us , you have to go to school, that you'll learn everything you need to know before you're ready for the big world, and that'll you need it to get into your dream job / But now a days our education isn't about learning, its about passing / Our education now isn't the same as it used to be
@cari-hannaford
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Wintering
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. / I have whirled the midwife's extractor, / I have my honey,
Sylvia Plath
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