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When They're Little, When They're Big
When they’re little, / they make your arms ache, / with the heft of them,
@Geof_Spavins
73
#1
22
Thoughts at a desk in the public library
Stiff yet bent, my spine, my legs / As I attempt to decompress; / I feel the rain in my bones
@ivorysmiles
28
#2
15
Magic Friends
I see no faces nor eyes / Nor the tapering of the quill / No voices go through a page
@nishu-mathur
28
#3
14
Other poems
EIDERDOWN
Once I slept on eiderdown / Now it’s thrift store cotton / The wealth I knew was a mirage
@LoriJonesMcCaffery
21
11
The Ember That Outlasts the Dark
The Ember That Outlasts the Dark / "Even in shadow, love leaves its quiet glow." / At dusk, the world forgets its edges.
@VerseBuster
24
7
Watching the Clouds Roll Over the Lake
I was seated at the window / watching… watching… / watching the clouds roll over the lake,
@Geof_Spavins
27
7
Sailing
Once you sailed the open waters, calling into many harbours, the thrill of new place's and new faces. / Arriving one day, upon a town, you felt like settling down, that feeling of moving on, just wasn't strong enough. / Some of the locals liked you, some didn't, never trust a stranger was muttered in dark corners, but eventually most accepted you.
@Nick-Moore
9
6
Taking a Nation Down from Within
We are being deceived / In a world of make-believe / We don’t know
@cj-sutherland
44
6
answered
America became a culture in requiem, / cranky, fearful, accustomed to the ambient muzak of decay. / A nation in retreat - uninformed, cowed, confused,
@anaisvionet
30
5
“to make the reader to love and cherish you”
my ***** secret outed, / the forehead clapped, / the cheeks, both slapped,
@nat-lipstadt
19
5
Golden Caress
A wave of golden hue / Shines from behind the trees / From behind the clouds
@Reav-Ecan
28
5
First Flight
Awake from a dream / dipped in sun fire, / is a caterpillar still
@vitae
41
5
Release
Don't you know better / than to flail / and struggle
@Lumin_e
9
4
Ascent in the Tatras - read from bottom to top
peak / stone, / breath slows,
@Andy_doll
12
4
Black Oil - The Serpent King
Oil the serpent's engine rooms, / Black‑gold evolution looms / From Caracas coups to Kremlin lies,
@marshal-gebbie
22
3
Song for a Happy Giant
On the high ridge lives the happy giant, / Laughing where the pine trees lean. / His shadow keeps the snowfields quiet,
@Andy_doll
24
3
the kissing miracle by Sheldon Cooper
*so odd that miracles commence / tween the / be~
@nat-lipstadt
45
3
Indigo
I lie. / I lie. / I lie straight through my teeth
@h-9
20
3
memo of magic
a nesteling / of rustling / a tussle
@breeaudrey
14
3
Conduit
a blow carrying with / the weight of the pull / stroking silk skin
@flame-heart
18
2
Appreciate nature
Take time to gaze and look all around you / Let divine nature thus surround you / A poet has to have an eye for detail
@S-zaynab-kamoonpury5
24
1
Unchosen
Are we lovers? Worse. / We’re 2 souls screaming to be together and united as one. / 2 souls lost because the only direction they want to go is towards each other, but they can’t.
@Briseisem
12
1
Make Me Easier To Love
Dilute me; / add a hint of bitterness, / a bit of preservatives,
@Zin
8
1
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