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I Thought You Should Know
Because your life is short / I thought you should know / about lawn bowling and polite clapping
@ECVadnais
15
#1
46
Culpability (for those little girls in Iran. I am sorry).
I wonder where they wrote my name / and whether it was engraved / or casually noted in pen.
@Warmervista
51
#2
27
What the shrimp see
It is a very human tragedy / That we can name more lengths / Of waves of light than our eyes
@willofalexander
9
#3
16
Other poems
expectation
let it run down your spine like a shiver / and wrap round your wrists like rope / let it climb up your veins like vines
@QSaint
12
14
What It Means To Be An Introvert
Yes, I am an introvert / But you can't put me in a box / The definitions you normally hear
@Bipasha-dutt
40
13
Mother The Sky Leech Returns
Mother — the Sky Leech returns — / And I shake with Dread — / It ricochets from wall to wall
@RIPearl
20
12
My. Body.
They shout of life with righteous breath, / Yet turn away from living death / From children bruised in foster homes,
@Thirteen14
32
12
welcome to my social life
Welcome to the pain, / Of wanting to be wanted, / And feeling unwanted.
@lizzlu
33
11
What leaves the Hand
What leaves the hand / returns through hidden doors. / Mercy comes back as harvest.
@MalcolmG
6
8
find me
Find that sweet spot, between awareness and inaction / Out to find me? / search by the sea
@anaisvionet
44
7
Night Shift
Another night shift from hell loomed heavily in her mind / "How did I become a pimper's paradise?" / Maybe it stemmed from childhood abuse & unworthiness
@kim-johanna-baker
24
6
Moist
moist droplets bead on the lawn / at dawn this morn, / as I tackle the hill in pre-winter couture;
@bekahalle
7
6
Small Blue Bowl
Small blue / bowl. / Speck of
@jg-collins
36
3
Seven Words
Seven Words / ——————- / The sun recedes
@OliviaWilliams
45
2
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