June 2026

In my mindi wonder / if the people we almost became / miss each other too / the version of me / that stayed /

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PeppersMy father says / the peppers need more sun. / This is somehow / about my mother. / The balcony smell

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Leaving the PartyEveryone was laughing. / I laughed too. / But somewhere behind my teeth / something was already / pu

@RKFieldNotes2m

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The Cartography of Nigde* / **a field of yes** / when Yes was still young / it lived nowhere / Nigde knew this / Nigde alway

@RastislavKnezi5m

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google search history (private)6:12 pm — do parents have generational trauma if they treat you badly / 6:19 pm — why does my mother

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BreathlessYou can literally / Take my breath away. / Not just in the way / People say it. / My lungs already s

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Quiet Light SoaringHigh above the nightmare below, / perched on the edge of thought, / I drift through the open sky, /

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cold sheetsMy bed remains untouched / The second I lay down / His hands not where they should’ve been / My plea

@painfultruths1m

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The Beas (The River I Love)I met her at a tender age and fell in love instantly / It was love at first sight so to speak / I wa

@Bipasha-dutt2m

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What defines paradise?I wonder what it takes / for you to finally understand / how my eyes widen / with every word I read

@C0LOMB1ANP03T2m

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the smell between usi love how everyone has a smell— / not perfume, not sweat, / but the quiet proof of living. / it hid

@shravani-wankhade2m

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You Can Write the LettersYou can write the letters / Address them with shaking hands / Lay them perfectly on a table / You ca

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Not Very Subtle, DadThe robin’s back again. / Same one / or at least that’s what I tell myself. / Gets close, / too clos

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june's floweri have seen wildfires, / heard rumors / but nothing / spreads as fast as words on a page / when i wr

@mcdonald-tsiie1m

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RiverbedHer mind isn't panning for gold. / The river chatters to itself, / rolling pebbles across its tongue

@WiltedEverly3m

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BreakfastArms stiff and crossed / I know you have something to say / But you'd rather not / Wish you'd break

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Technologywe aren't mute / we aren't shy / we aren't strangers / yet we remain with not a word escaping our mo

@gwen-pimentel1m

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Being Perfect in ImperfectYou were never meant / to carry the weight / of becoming flawless. / Still, you stood in front of th

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as to a wingI write to you as to a wing / your name circles above my head / like a silent satellite / it shines

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have you seen her?blue-checkered jacket hangs loosely / from her shoulders, cloth faded, torn. / she kneels inside yes

@guy-scutellaro1m

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Everything is a GlobuleEverything is a globule. / Nothing is sharp. / Blue like a bruise, / or a soft pond that learned how

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AfterwordWhen we picked up / the crumbs from the table, / we heard / the crack / of breaking stems / so many

@Agnes-de-Lodz2m

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A Familiar WoundA Familiar Wound / The doctors slit your belly / To get to your spine / And cushion the disks / That

@william-alexander2m

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grandmotherMy grandmother never could say, / "I'm full." / So she filled cookie jars and pie tins and Bundt pan

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Choosing myselfAlways thinking of others, / taught to never put myself first, / no surprise that I came in last. /

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Star/DustSole stars shine together in a nightly swirl / sharing light with the collective whorl as each wink

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white rabbitI have had a visitor in both my front / and backyard — / I see it in the morning / and I see it agai

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If We Ever MeetIf we ever meet face to face — / I want to take you to my favourite library / Stay there in silence

@naina_a_singh1m

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Eldest daughterI'm the eldest daughter / I carry the weight of others / I'm the therapy friend / and I've learned b

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Blowing Bubbles*I remember blowing bubbles* / *Winsome bubbles in the air* / *Enchanted by their beautiful prismati

@kim-johanna-baker2m

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Mermaid (explicit)(TW - sexual coercion) / Last night a warning slid clear of gentle grey clouds. / This morning the v

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RecklessThe jury is still out on you, / the blonde bridesmaid told me - / fierce mind, careless heart, / or

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Wasted GiftsI was given / Life / Only to wish it away / Hope / Only to laugh in its face / I was given / Warmth

@BleedingHearts2m

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The Glass HorizonFive years of safety, of cedar and glue, / With Barbies and snacks and a sky that was blue. / A circ

@IsolatedRhymes2m

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I wish I hadn't found youThere’s a moment / my life keeps circling back to— / a quiet house, / an ordinary afternoon, / my ha

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FlowerbedMy lungs fill to the brim with roses and lilacs. / My bones transform into their stems, / my cells t

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a wind off the seaThe wind is up and the landscape is changing. / Like a bureaucratic comedy, tomorrow’s forecast call

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Lavender MorningThe morning after you left me / I lingered too long / in love's haze. / A beautiful lavender shade /

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Forget the wordsCould he ever find me, / waiting by the riverside, / scattering rose petals, / watching them drift—

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WILDFLOWERA wildflower, / unwanted in your garden, / still grows. / Unnoticed by you, / between your chosen fl

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I always ended up saying the wrong thingsThe weather today is as cold as you / I emit the slightest warmth / Just to let you know I care for

@MykesCastillo2m

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Morning’s SmileAt the spill of day / flesh dressed in russet ground to dust, / touch / as the elements slide to amb

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An Old RoadbedThis was a road; an old map told me so. / A trail, I’d say, and sometimes less than that. / It’s har

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moment of jeongWhen you open the cupboard, / your hand hesitates at the shelf / you no longer use, / though nothing

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🐢 Tortoise & The Hare🐰I sought the meaning of the Hare, / Whose feet were swift as morning fire; / And of the Tortoise, sl

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Knowing youDon't you remember? / The high-pitched laughs, yelling, / and putting school glue on our tiny finger

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bound by scissors (1): it peels an orangethe strings aren't made of rope. / they are spun from the times you said *i’m here* / and the times

@the_softest_thing4m

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If This Poem Finds You SomewhereI keep pushing you away, / out of my life, / away from my doubts, / from the dark, illusory world /

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You’ll always have the best of my loveWhat can I do to erase the pain / that he brought into your life? / What can I do to help you throug

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I Am Finally Over YouI AM FINALLY OVER YOU / You’re not the girl I fell in love with. / You have changed into someone els

@ParadoxicalPenguin3m

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The Weather That Refused to Set the Mood⭐ THE UNPOLISHED SEASON — Poem V / The weather didn’t help. / Not with mood, / not with meaning, / n

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I Met A GirlI met a girl / who wore silence / like it was stitched into her skin, / But around the right people,

@wordsbehindcurtain2m

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rainbowi will never understand / why there is so much hatred / towards a community / so built on love / tha

@ShatteredSculpture2m

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The AppointmentCarnations bought for memory this morning, / A bouquet made of strictly even-count. / The shroud’s c

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THE ILLUSION OF ARRIVALWe grow up chasing a place that doesn’t exist. / “There.” / Where everything finally settles. / Wher

@Heart-hacker6602m

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Skipping AlongHumanity doesn’t like fences. / They climb them, bulldoze them down, / or call them lies. / Hell, ev

@thomas-w-case2m

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Springthe thing no one saw / was the winter kept beneath my sleeves / no sirens came for it / no one calle

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TapedGreen wings die / where golden lights never come back. / Once-new mirrors form / endless cracks. / W

@Thesilentobserver2m

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The Nail That FailedEvery wall, every painting, left behind. / Carrying the weight of memories, never mine / Rusted and

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LovedI loved you / Even when you weren't okay / I loved you / When you pinched your arm to keep from cryi

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StainedThey saw the night sky, / And admired the stars. / But when they saw my stained shirt, / All they sa

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Last Birthday CardEric, / Happy Birthday! / I love you very much. / May God bless you / & protect you / always. / I'll

@eric-guitian1m

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"The Trail"There was a time when morning seemed / A continent no foot could cross, / When one brief hour of sum

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The Lightheartedness Of BeingThe scorching disc in the sky / and the labyrinthian bark / set the forest in a mood for a reading—o

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Hair-TieI'd give you the hair-tie around my wrist. / I'd make you laugh, and I'd cry for you when your back

@it_was_always_about_Her1m

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Little windA little wind shakes / the tips of my / shoelaces, untied. / I see them dangle / in the pale blue sk

@Listerineyedrops2m

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THE RING WAS NEVER A KEYThe bruise nobody saw was hidden in a wedding vow, / because some people still mistake "I do" for "I

@yorpoeticalgorithm1m

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The Fourth Pupthen, the m.p.'s arrive, they don't find me. / i'm disguised as a boy in a fuchsia gasoline bonnet,

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Morning WalkGulls cry above the water; / dolphins break the morning / and vanish in the blue. / Clouds move slow

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EuphoriaI only like boys when they're cruel and cold, / When their eyes linger longer, shameless and bold. /

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Gravity of a SpeckWarmth... the heat of your breath upon my neck, / Touching, exploring, wondering what comes next. /

@SashaRHollow1m

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You Never Came BackThe festival ended hours ago. / The lights are still hanging / but no one turns them on. / I saved t

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Sour Patch GirlPraise dripped from his tongue like honey, / Slow and deliberate against the silence between them. /

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Trail of Spilled RegretWhen love knocks on a guarded door, / it finds doubt and panic, / because some don't believe they ca

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Hope (Tanka)I can see some hope, / but it's always out of reach, / my arms tired and drained. / Doesn't mean I'l

@lynn-stillman1m

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To StepanA crown of thorns bestowed / Upon your head to match / A name that surely means / With all respect j

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