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Sour May 2014
Love is seeing you in the bottom of my coffee,
It's feeling a cigarette burn into my skin,
It's hearing your voice cracking in the branches of my trees,
It's watching the moon turn red in April and not being able to focus on the stars anymore,
It's staring into my drawers, feeling my fingernails scratching the wood looking for change,
Its licking a lit match,
And finding a golden dollar in your backyard under the sandbox,
It's getting in a car crash at 60 mph on a congested highway and never being able to drive again without thinking about hitting a concrete wall,
It's holding your ******* hand and your cold skin and knowing it has nothing but warmth underneath,
And its wanting to die before I hit thirty.
It's burning, it's certain, and it's haunting.
I'll never be without that.
Steven Hutchison Apr 2014
There are
two ways of finding
a diamond

One
is to remove the
diamonds

and leave
the carcass of a tomb
left behind

The other
is to remove what isn’t
a diamond
Mary Christopher Apr 2014
And our love is like a suburban tree,
Rooted in dog ****,
Smashed through concrete,
And struggling every day to survive.

m.c.c.
Andrew Durst Apr 2014
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Trying some concrete poetry again.
MaryJane Doe Apr 2014
As         eye
watch my children
sleep.I feel a bond
so deep.a pro-
mise I will
keep

I'd
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MaryJane Doe Apr 2014
He peeled
    back the layers
of my thin
  summer skin
     Leaving
  me bare
In the
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          of my sin

The
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MaryJane Doe Apr 2014
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  We
    Drink
         Our
             Milk
                  &
                   Eat
                     Our
                       Food

          We're                  
          Too Big                
         For An Air       Plane
  We're Were Big Kids Now
         We Snack
            On  A
             Train

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MaryJane Doe Apr 2014
t
was
simply
you that  
I desired. Not
your posessions.
Nor your attire. You
built me up you took me
higher. You made the spark
that started my fire. You told
me  you  loved  me.  And  I
called you a lier. That
Was the last time
And now I
Conspire
I    must
Love me
T    o    o
I   need
N    o   t
De   sire
M  i  s  s
M a t ch
Stricken
I am  on
F   I  R  E!
Blackfeather contest edit
Laura Mankowski Apr 2014
Falling
This notion of the ground slipping away
Circumstances make people become-
Different
Hardens them somehow
Emotion takes its toll,
Wears you out,
Tires you
If you hurt long enough-
It’s easier to be hollow
Trust me
Falling
When you can’t remember which way is up-
Things like being more
Or is it less?
Of, well anything
Don’t seem to matter
Solid ground
Like cold, wet, cement after the rain
Something real to latch onto
To stop the dizzying spiral
Something
Someone
To ground you
Remind you who you are
To bring you back
From the dead
Or is it ******?
Knowing the breadcrumbs are there
To lead me back
Is how I know
I’ll survive the fall
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