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#afterimage poems

30 poems containing #afterimage

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Fortune CookieWhen you speak, the listener understands you. When you write, the reader understands themselves.

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The Truth in Silencethere is a truth in silence, / the words you do not say; / written between the lines, / a secret unt

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UnrequitedMy greedy heart: an endless stomach hungry for your affection.

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SeductionThe symphony of your skin / suffocated my senses. / Smothered my resistance / against the sensations

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Almost and Kind OfI am a person of almost and kind of. / I am a shadow of what I was / Hidden in the darkness of a pas

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Stolen Words #1Awkward astronomer-lover. / Your nebulae concept: / The universe drawing together, / A delighted ani

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Rib CageMy breath is caught. / There's a reason they call it a rib cage.

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Excerpt From A Story Unwritten #7There is nothing beautiful that came to be without effort. Even the flowers had to push through the

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RuinsI find myself lingering more and more in the emptiness and because of this I awake in the chaos of a

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Thresholds: "The Great Eraser" (4)THRESHOLDS — A CYCLE IN TWELVE PARTS / The Great Eraser works at night, / rearranging settings / lik

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HitchhikerI’m staring at cars going to the horizon. / Thumb out by the road I walk beside them. / Some are too

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Theory of NothingThe theory of our relationship / A complex set of numbers / Are we where we want to be? / Are we who

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Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #1And I knew in that moment, you were to me as the moon to the wolf: infinite in beauty, but impossibl

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Thresholds: "Echo Chamber" (6)THRESHOLDS — A CYCLE IN TWELVE PARTS / In the system, an echo lingers, / though the microphone was s

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Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #2...And I reached out, like the hands of a clock, uselessly grasping at time; and like a clock, all I

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LoveEffortless Falling / My Endless Adoration / Helpless Before You

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Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #6Life is never a structured path that is well lit and fenced in. Life is not a road. Life is the wild

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Mosaic of Broken HeartsI exhale my thoughts across the page. / My pen bleeds them into being. / The paper victim of open wo

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Waiting GameAnticipation, a frozen breath upon the wind. / Endings beginning where beginning's end. / I am captu

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Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #5I am only a shell near your ocean, helpless to your pull, / Wave after wave tumbling across my seeki

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Sun BatheYour shadow shouldn’t stop you from basking in the sun.

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Excerpt From a Story Unwritten #3I turned to him and asked "why?" As the record droned on in the background. He opened his eyes and s

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ObserverI have a tendency to remain quiet in a crowd and simply observe those around me. Because it takes so

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FallingI am concerned that I am growing more and more comfortable with my bouts of apathy. Things are easy

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