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January 8, 2026
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look
look, / dreams turn into frost flowers / here only
@irinia
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#1
28
Chemotherapy
there is a crack in everything; / the burden of ballast, walking / barefoot on the surface of the sun;
@Carlo-C-Gomez
8
#2
24
Old soil, New roots
I carry old things / like pressed lilies. / They no longer bloom,
@Immortality
16
#3
19
Other poems
Where do broken souls go?
You might see them in the sea, / Head's above the water, staring / at the lofty sky while being mauled
@spring-mnemosyne
30
17
The Name the Ocean Spoke
Her name was born of ocean breath, / of wind, sunshine and rain. / The warming tones of dawn's caress,
@RWRutledge
35
16
WHISPERS OF THE PAINTINGS
Your thoughts keep me / awake at nights. / So, I turn on the lights
@Blue-Sapphire
12
13
hate
why can't i hate you? / maybe because im still in the shirt i wore / when you held me so tight
@mysterie
11
11
when she walked through
the front door of the diner / the waitress's presence / touched everyone in the room.
@guy-scutellaro
60
7
A Dream of Noon
A dream passed by this noon / you wandered like a butterfly, / touching as softly as
@Immortality
16
6
Think Like Dostoevsky
think like Dostoevsky— / better to have someone / who won't burn your contradictions
@VanessaRue
13
6
I imagine ghosts exist
I imagine ghosts exist, if only to float and dance through the mist. / Not remembering who or what they are. / They don't speak, they don't weep
@Lahkeesha
17
5
A HEART THAT LOVES
A heart that loves / waits forever— / no matter how long
@Blue-Sapphire
7
4
Upside-Down
We do not choose the world that bears our weight, / nor shape the hour that meets us at the door. / We enter lives already bound by fate,
@badwords
20
3
Words
You see the pulse of the world / from eye-level — / the tremor in the hand,
@badwords
28
3
Three Movements of a Suspended Morning
I. Before Waking / I wake to find the sky withheld from dawn, / A winter hush that seals the blankets warm,
@badwords
21
3
Texas A & M University and Mickey Mouse's Dog
Lawrence Hall /
[email protected]
/ Dispatches for the Colonial Office
@lawrence-hall
20
2
puddle
Earth a molten reflection, / covered in steely mirror. / Cloud eternally jealous,
@Kathleen_Howard
8
2
If You Knew
If I could cry a river, I’m sure you would drown, / if I opened the door, you’d see a world upside down. / If you knew the place where I sit and I think,
@MalcolmG
28
2
in that deep cold frost
that dead stare. / pure violence. / I respect that.
@guy-scutellaro
39
2
A Mortal Passion
or, Psyche at the Genius of Death: / These days are fleeing us, / be like the Sea,
@GraceA
17
2
speechless is okay, for the mind, yet the heart never are...
~for Blue Sapphire~ / communication does not require sound, / the silence of your internalities
@nat-lipstadt
38
1
Hot mess
I bite at my cuticles / Instead of screaming / I scratch myself
@miss-tabitha-devereaux
30
1
my problem
Lets see / The problem with me / Are my bones
@lexxwrites
31
1
Blinding light
The Son shone so bright and so long / Early this morning, / Provoking blindness for a short
@bekahalle
7
0
He said . . .
He said ,"You can't pull strings when your hands are tied ." / Is it because you are made of steel and glass ? / Everyone is hollering about their birthday
@South-by-Southwest
8
0
The illusion of time
The past is an illusion of the memory / Don’t believe in a history / That never was
@FTScorza
12
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Rootclod Rudiments
Exotic trollwood harlotry and mule kit blues / Tyrannical tyrannosaur traction padness / Cohort cavorts clastic and witch’s *** hues
@toreinss-pinwinkel-iii
24
-2
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