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"wanted" poems

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ShatterFeeling your hands / on my skin / is when living my life

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Eyes in the Sky Gaze to the GroundI wanted to reach out to the sky / not to touch any star / just to whisper to the Moon

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W O M A N - Nikki Giovannishe wanted to be a blade / of grass amid the fields / but he wouldn't agree

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Writing Suicide Notes In Gel PenClothes have outgrown me many times over, / but this sadness never does. / One size.

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Girlfriendsthe women of the past keep / phoning. / there was another yesterday

Charles Bukowski46

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HangedI hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever, point is I hanged myself today and I'm still hanging. / I feel fine. Just bored. I keep hoping that someone will come home and cut me down but then I keep remembering that if i knew someone like that I wouldn't be up here. Bit ironic, right? Or is that not ironic? I read somewhere that, like, anything funny is, in some way, ironic. But I don't know if it's funny or not. I don't think my brain *owns* "funny," you know? / I feel taller. I like that.

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Countless StarsIs it not easy / to greet to someone / whom you never spoke

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The Life Chosen for MeI would have taken the easy path / But that would leave no room for glory / I would have picked out a comfortable life

@alyssa-underwood44

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LAST MONTH YOU MADE ME MARRY YOUI’m a child and not a bride, but / Last month you made me marry you. / You know it wasn’t love that made me say yes

@famousisaacs39

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TGirl.My name is Sara, a transgender chick / Wanted a fanny, was given a dick / I hide it in knickers of satin and lace

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DandelionI never thought I would fall for you twice, / but here I am writing this poem. / I'm just a dandelion lost in this greenhouse

@morganmercury28

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PlayI want to use you / For doing things to you / That you never knew

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red red red/cheesyI never knew you could know me so much better / I ignored all the great weather / the darkest cloud hung over me and I let my head fall on the air

@braulio-romero15

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LonelinessI'm surrounded by a sea of people / As far as the eye can see / All flowing in the same direction

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How to Be a WriterA friend asked me / how to be a writer. / I wanted to say,

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"She was an angel craving chaos, he was a demon seeking peace"Together they were the perfect team. / She was tired of perfection long before she met him. Constantly having to put up a successful front was exhausting, but her barrier of bravado was faltering. / It's hard to find imperfections in an idyllic world.

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To The Transgender SuicidesYou will never know / The peace of acceptance / Once you are finished

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Maybe there's a reason I never told you.Sometimes I get stuck in this state of Darkness / where my eyes can see / but it's like my head is just pitch black

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Left Brain, Right BrainAlright now, right brain, / you're being insane. / No, left brain! I'm just being alive.

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New horizonsTrapped in a cage with golden bars of light / Of ancient habit and direful duties; / Below the water crashed into the bight,

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You Will Hear ThunderYou will hear thunder and remember me, / And think: she wanted storms. The rim / Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,

Anna Akhmatova9

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Heartless BitchI watched her crush him as she broke his heart / Then she wanted to grind him to dust / with the expectation of friendship.

@david-patrick-oc5

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TumulusBurning fuel but not to leave, / boys circled town, came back / to the station where they began.

@Kiki-Dresden51

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White PeopleI hate white people / who stop me from stealing their stuff / and bring in the po po

@why-visit-my-page24

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