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 Oct 2015 1487
Rob Kingston
Haiku
 Oct 2015 1487
Rob Kingston
one by one they leave
as light fades on the river
the empty crease
 Oct 2015 1487
Tex Dermott
Almost Done
Spinning my wheels
Wasting my time
So long
Good-by
 Sep 2015 1487
hkr
dishrags
 Sep 2015 1487
hkr
we twist and twist and twist
like dishrags over an empty sink
where do all the drops of us go
where do they go
where do we go
eighteen
and i feel like i’m running dry
something i found in my high notes.
 Sep 2015 1487
marina
9.29
 Sep 2015 1487
marina
i keep thinking about the way
your fingers don't leave bruises on
my hips the way they used do

when did you stop trying to hold
on so tight? when did you stop
trying?
 Sep 2015 1487
hkr
kill the crush
 Sep 2015 1487
hkr
i guess this is how it is now:
you always leaving us (your friends) for him;
you never leaving my mind
i know what you do to me
i just can't bring myself to
strangle you for it
just yet.
this came out a lot more violent than i meant it to, but that doesn't mean i don't mean it.
 Sep 2015 1487
AJ
You'd Be Winning
 Sep 2015 1487
AJ
It's not reinventing yourself.
It's reinventing the wheel.

You're a subpar elitist at best.
More realistically,
You're way below par.

If this was golf.....
sometimes i hate how
i can put my life on hold
& forget about my own well being
just to solve someone else's problems...

all the time, i say to myself:

"i am not jesus...
i am not buddha...
i cannot save everybody."

they call it being "kind"
but they don't know that helping people
but being unable to help yourself
can be a form of self destruction too.
 Sep 2015 1487
raine cooper
maybe
 Sep 2015 1487
raine cooper
maybe yours would be hands that stay
or your eyes, stars that won't burn out
maybe your waves would keep reaching,
instead of relentlessly leaving the shore
but i have said goodbye to parts of myself
and i know they'll never come back
the parts that love
the pieces that trust
they lay here shattered and broken
and i can't let anything close
because i am made entirely of ruins
and i destroy all that i touch
©rainecooper
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