May 8, 2026

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The Polished Self: Epilogue⭐ THE POLISHED SELF™ – Epilogue / A Diptych / Epilogue I: The Pastel Myth

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The Girl Who Liked HemingwayI didn't win the pageant / because those ******* wouldn't know beauty if it beat them over their 'do's with a porch plank. / My Mediterranean sultriness was not what they were looking for;

@ShayCaroline55

#2

37

You Can Be GreatYou can be great / With what you create / Now is not late

#3

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DisappearingOne day / all that will be left of me / will be in a file

@john-edward-smallshaw16

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KILLER KNIFEA tomato ran out of the house, shouting, / “Save me! / The knife is going to **** me!”

@Blue-Sapphire11

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Relationshipi have been trying to fix the edges of our relationship like things in a luggage bag, for this, i push with my feet and hands, to make maximum space for compatibility i flatten our arguments like clothes, roll fabric softly, fill tiny gaps, move zip slider close to the teeth to prevent the spilling of our love.

18

When I WriteWhen I write, I write with the hope that I will touch you... / as tenderly as the stars touch the moon, / as softly as the blue sky caresses the sun,

@ParadoxicalPenguin10

16

Say the WordsUnlocking the gates / to my untended Eden, / with the words

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Park bench....Sitting on a park bench on a bright sunny day, / Relaxing in the sun's warm, sweet rays. Top of the trees , Glistening leaves gently swaying in the breeze. Higabove / A plane flies by Air-brushed clouds through a country-kitchen blue sky.

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Never Knew I Needed YouI let you down so many times but, / you always seemed to return to my side. / I pushed you away and brought a world filled,

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DINGHYHer little boat’s back in the harbor, / Tossed by waves of sin and doubt; / Torn and battered by bad choices

@LoriJonesMcCaffery13

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Dont cross the yellow line.“Don’t cross the yellow line” / To you it’s a joke, to me it’s a sign / That you too have monsters in your head

11

Without YouA friend of ours called today / She left a long message over the phone / She told me that I should look for you

@MidnightVerse60

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Do I call you friend ?I used to believe friendship / was a fire that learned endurance, / something older than distance,

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SWEET - Little ANGELI’ll always / Hear your sweet sweet / Voice

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My houseI desperately wanted to write a poem / With words that would capture that my home / Is just a house with people in it,

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Waiting Beside YouUnder a clear night / during spring, / I waited for the

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The Writing's on the WallWhen a power structure discovers its champion is noise without consequence, / the center of gravity shifts. / Allies drift, institutions stiffen, foreign capitals stop reacting.

@marshal-gebbie45

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Sunset Breeze*The fragrance of Gardinas wafted through her window* / *Imbuing her senses with longing anticipation* / *Glancing at love's betrothal glistening upon her ring finger*

@kim-johanna-baker19

2

I Felt Myself DecayI cut my fingers off one by one / till there’s nothing but nubs on my hand / My body is ****** and weak

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a minor-ity (bitty) poet, each of us; and yet, fully constitutedeach of us a tiny isle, / unnamed, even unmapped; / maybe a Hamlet, a village,

@nat-lipstadt46

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