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In my mind
i wonder
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if the people we almost became
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miss each other too
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the version of me
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that stayed /
@samwarde
1m
#1
64
Peppers
My father says
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the peppers need more sun.
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This is somehow
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about my mother.
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The balcony smell
@SideB
2m
#2
57
Leaving the Party
Everyone was laughing.
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I laughed too.
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But somewhere behind my teeth
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something was already
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pu
@RKFieldNotes
2m
#3
56
The Cartography of Nigde
*
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**a field of yes**
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when Yes was still young
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it lived nowhere
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Nigde knew this
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Nigde alway
@RastislavKnezi
5m
#4
40
google search history (private)
6:12 pm — do parents have generational trauma if they treat you badly
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6:19 pm — why does my mother
@Incarnadine
2m
#5
28
Breathless
You can literally
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Take my breath away.
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Not just in the way
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People say it.
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My lungs already s
@Mateja
1m
21
Quiet Light Soaring
High above the nightmare below,
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perched on the edge of thought,
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I drift through the open sky, /
@Pink-pulse
1m
21
cold sheets
My bed remains untouched
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The second I lay down
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His hands not where they should’ve been
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My plea
@painfultruths
1m
21
The Beas (The River I Love)
I met her at a tender age and fell in love instantly
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It was love at first sight so to speak
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I wa
@Bipasha-dutt
2m
21
What defines paradise?
I wonder what it takes
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for you to finally understand
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how my eyes widen
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with every word I read
@C0LOMB1ANP03T
2m
19
the smell between us
i love how everyone has a smell—
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not perfume, not sweat,
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but the quiet proof of living.
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it hid
@shravani-wankhade
2m
18
You Can Write the Letters
You can write the letters
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Address them with shaking hands
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Lay them perfectly on a table
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You ca
@CoraEve
2m
17
Not Very Subtle, Dad
The robin’s back again.
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Same one
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or at least that’s what I tell myself.
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Gets close,
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too clos
@Mahayag
6m
17
june's flower
i have seen wildfires,
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heard rumors
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but nothing
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spreads as fast as words on a page
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when i wr
@mcdonald-tsiie
1m
17
Riverbed
Her mind isn't panning for gold.
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The river chatters to itself,
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rolling pebbles across its tongue
@WiltedEverly
3m
15
Breakfast
Arms stiff and crossed
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I know you have something to say
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But you'd rather not
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Wish you'd break
@zoe-mae
1m
15
Technology
we aren't mute
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we aren't shy
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we aren't strangers
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yet we remain with not a word escaping our mo
@gwen-pimentel
1m
14
Being Perfect in Imperfect
You were never meant
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to carry the weight
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of becoming flawless.
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Still, you stood in front of th
@vimi
2m
14
as to a wing
I write to you as to a wing
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your name circles above my head
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like a silent satellite
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it shines
@irinia
2m
13
have you seen her?
blue-checkered jacket hangs loosely
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from her shoulders, cloth faded, torn.
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she kneels inside yes
@guy-scutellaro
1m
12
Everything is a Globule
Everything is a globule.
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Nothing is sharp.
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Blue like a bruise,
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or a soft pond that learned how
@Twc
3m
12
Afterword
When we picked up
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the crumbs from the table,
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we heard
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the crack
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of breaking stems
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so many
@Agnes-de-Lodz
2m
12
A Familiar Wound
A Familiar Wound
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The doctors slit your belly
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To get to your spine
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And cushion the disks
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That
@william-alexander
2m
11
grandmother
My grandmother never could say,
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"I'm full."
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So she filled cookie jars and pie tins and Bundt pan
@BCwells
1m
11
Choosing myself
Always thinking of others,
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taught to never put myself first,
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no surprise that I came in last. /
@Darksoul
1m
10
Star/Dust
Sole stars shine together in a nightly swirl
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sharing light with the collective whorl as each wink
@pilgrims
2m
9
white rabbit
I have had a visitor in both my front
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and backyard —
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I see it in the morning
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and I see it agai
@bekahalle
1m
8
If We Ever Meet
If we ever meet face to face —
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I want to take you to my favourite library
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Stay there in silence
@naina_a_singh
1m
8
Eldest daughter
I'm the eldest daughter
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I carry the weight of others
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I'm the therapy friend
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and I've learned b
@kayc
1m
7
Blowing Bubbles
*I remember blowing bubbles*
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*Winsome bubbles in the air*
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*Enchanted by their beautiful prismati
@kim-johanna-baker
2m
7
Mermaid (explicit)
(TW - sexual coercion)
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Last night a warning slid clear of gentle grey clouds.
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This morning the v
@ju
5m
6
Reckless
The jury is still out on you,
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the blonde bridesmaid told me -
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fierce mind, careless heart,
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or
@EvanS
2m
6
Wasted Gifts
I was given
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Life
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Only to wish it away
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Hope
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Only to laugh in its face
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I was given
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Warmth
@BleedingHearts
2m
6
The Glass Horizon
Five years of safety, of cedar and glue,
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With Barbies and snacks and a sky that was blue.
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A circ
@IsolatedRhymes
2m
6
I wish I hadn't found you
There’s a moment
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my life keeps circling back to—
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a quiet house,
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an ordinary afternoon,
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my ha
@velocity77
3m
5
Flowerbed
My lungs fill to the brim with roses and lilacs.
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My bones transform into their stems,
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my cells t
@krly
2m
5
a wind off the sea
The wind is up and the landscape is changing.
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Like a bureaucratic comedy, tomorrow’s forecast call
@anaisvionet
3m
5
Lavender Morning
The morning after you left me
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I lingered too long
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in love's haze.
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A beautiful lavender shade /
@Lola_Sparks
1m
5
Forget the words
Could he ever find me,
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waiting by the riverside,
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scattering rose petals,
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watching them drift—
@flame-heart
1m
5
WILDFLOWER
A wildflower,
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unwanted in your garden,
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still grows.
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Unnoticed by you,
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between your chosen fl
@Shambhavi
1m
5
I always ended up saying the wrong things
The weather today is as cold as you
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I emit the slightest warmth
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Just to let you know I care for
@MykesCastillo
2m
5
Morning’s Smile
At the spill of day
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flesh dressed in russet ground to dust,
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touch
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as the elements slide to amb
@SoulManKen
3m
5
An Old Roadbed
This was a road; an old map told me so.
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A trail, I’d say, and sometimes less than that.
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It’s har
@bdlukey
1m
4
moment of jeong
When you open the cupboard,
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your hand hesitates at the shelf
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you no longer use,
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though nothing
@renseksderf
1m
4
🐢 Tortoise & The Hare🐰
I sought the meaning of the Hare,
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Whose feet were swift as morning fire;
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And of the Tortoise, sl
@MalcolmG
2m
4
Knowing you
Don't you remember?
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The high-pitched laughs, yelling,
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and putting school glue on our tiny finger
@CosmicMuse
2m
4
bound by scissors (1): it peels an orange
the strings aren't made of rope.
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they are spun from the times you said *i’m here*
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and the times
@the_softest_thing
4m
4
If This Poem Finds You Somewhere
I keep pushing you away,
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out of my life,
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away from my doubts,
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from the dark, illusory world /
@Rosita26
3m
4
You’ll always have the best of my love
What can I do to erase the pain
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that he brought into your life?
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What can I do to help you throug
@AlanBaxter
4m
4
I Am Finally Over You
I AM FINALLY OVER YOU
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You’re not the girl I fell in love with.
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You have changed into someone els
@ParadoxicalPenguin
3m
4
The Weather That Refused to Set the Mood
⭐ THE UNPOLISHED SEASON — Poem V
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The weather didn’t help.
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Not with mood,
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not with meaning,
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n
@VerseBuster
2m
3
I Met A Girl
I met a girl
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who wore silence
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like it was stitched into her skin,
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But around the right people,
@wordsbehindcurtain
2m
3
rainbow
i will never understand
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why there is so much hatred
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towards a community
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so built on love
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tha
@ShatteredSculpture
2m
3
The Appointment
Carnations bought for memory this morning,
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A bouquet made of strictly even-count.
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The shroud’s c
@mupohob666
1m
3
THE ILLUSION OF ARRIVAL
We grow up chasing a place that doesn’t exist.
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“There.”
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Where everything finally settles.
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Wher
@Heart-hacker660
2m
3
Skipping Along
Humanity doesn’t like fences.
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They climb them, bulldoze them down,
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or call them lies.
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Hell, ev
@thomas-w-case
2m
3
Spring
the thing no one saw
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was the winter kept beneath my sleeves
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no sirens came for it
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no one calle
@NoaIdea
2m
2
Taped
Green wings die
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where golden lights never come back.
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Once-new mirrors form
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endless cracks.
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W
@Thesilentobserver
2m
2
The Nail That Failed
Every wall, every painting, left behind.
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Carrying the weight of memories, never mine
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Rusted and
@Hazel_Dusk
2m
2
Loved
I loved you
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Even when you weren't okay
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I loved you
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When you pinched your arm to keep from cryi
@FaeFJ
1m
2
Stained
They saw the night sky,
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And admired the stars.
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But when they saw my stained shirt,
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All they sa
@1DNA
1m
2
Last Birthday Card
Eric,
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Happy Birthday!
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I love you very much.
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May God bless you
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& protect you
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always.
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I'll
@eric-guitian
1m
1
"The Trail"
There was a time when morning seemed
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A continent no foot could cross,
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When one brief hour of sum
@Awakening
8m
1
The Lightheartedness Of Being
The scorching disc in the sky
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and the labyrinthian bark
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set the forest in a mood for a reading—o
@M-E
2m
1
Hair-Tie
I'd give you the hair-tie around my wrist.
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I'd make you laugh, and I'd cry for you when your back
@it_was_always_about_Her
1m
1
Little wind
A little wind shakes
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the tips of my
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shoelaces, untied.
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I see them dangle
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in the pale blue sk
@Listerineyedrops
2m
1
THE RING WAS NEVER A KEY
The bruise nobody saw was hidden in a wedding vow,
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because some people still mistake "I do" for "I
@yorpoeticalgorithm
1m
1
The Fourth Pup
then, the m.p.'s arrive, they don't find me.
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i'm disguised as a boy in a fuchsia gasoline bonnet,
@IngaPinkink
2m
1
Morning Walk
Gulls cry above the water;
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dolphins break the morning
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and vanish in the blue.
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Clouds move slow
@MarkD
1m
1
Euphoria
I only like boys when they're cruel and cold,
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When their eyes linger longer, shameless and bold. /
@Thirteen14
4m
1
Gravity of a Speck
Warmth... the heat of your breath upon my neck,
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Touching, exploring, wondering what comes next. /
@SashaRHollow
1m
1
You Never Came Back
The festival ended hours ago.
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The lights are still hanging
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but no one turns them on.
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I saved t
@shoaib005
4m
1
Sour Patch Girl
Praise dripped from his tongue like honey,
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Slow and deliberate against the silence between them. /
@Kalliopie
2m
1
Trail of Spilled Regret
When love knocks on a guarded door,
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it finds doubt and panic,
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because some don't believe they ca
@Luz
1m
1
Hope (Tanka)
I can see some hope,
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but it's always out of reach,
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my arms tired and drained.
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Doesn't mean I'l
@lynn-stillman
1m
1
To Stepan
A crown of thorns bestowed
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Upon your head to match
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A name that surely means
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With all respect j
@polinapvlv
1m
1
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