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Austin May 2016
Petals of flowers
wings of butterflies
one in the same.
Jack Jenkins May 2016
I'm nothing more
than a tapering string
going into nothingness
If you were reincarnated
You'd be a Butterfly
And I'd be a possum
Wanting to be cute but actually ugly
They might see beauty
But I see the mirror crack
Every now and then
Usually after ten
Sydney Marie May 2016
using big words to
make you
sound smart,

isn't smart
Jack Jenkins May 2016
Why does my heart keep beating?                                    
**                                          It died long ago...
Dhaye Margaux May 2016
My skin  is now ready for your eyes
Not for a stranger in the night
I know you are waiting for a rhyme
Like a rainbow that's out of sight

I painted birds and  chickens on canvass
I know you'll remember this day
Spend time calculating the hues
To create a piece all the way

You may fall short of  time and chance
Sometimes you may pause and then hurry
But that's how we  create like we explode
Be obedient if you don't want to feel sorry.

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She's an artist. She paints.  She write songs,  poems and stories.  Even a stranger  could prove that. Her skin tattoos speak so well.  You can see flowers and animals on her arms,  neck and shoulder.  So funny that even chickens can be seen once you closely look at those marks.  

As a poet,  she mostly observe rhyme and meter.  She would always spend time calculating the syllables in a line.  She always remember her mentor's teachings even when writing short pieces. There was no moment that she's not obedient of the rules she had learned from him. She won't forget that anything should not be done in a hurry.  

She is an artist,  and her  creativity is like an emotion that is going to explode once properly set.
For the 10  Words I Give Contest...
The given words:
S K I N
S T R A N G E R
R H Y M E
C H I C K E N S
R E M E M B E R
C A L C U L A T I N G
S H O R T
H U R R Y
E X P L O D E
O B E D I E N T
Klara Apr 2016
You told me I am your everything but that is not a load I want to carry.

2. You ask me to be patient but I have given you so many chances I have none left for myself.

3. You only started treating me decently after you had lost me.

4. My fear of hurting you was what kept me from being able to put myself first.

5. Does chosing my own happiness really make me a bad person?

6. Does it really benefit you to blame me for your friends ditching on you because you became the person you are today?

7. Should I believe your countless mentions of how everything is going wrong and how it is all my fault? Shouldn't you be the one responsible for your own life?

8. I thought moving on would be hard but moving on from someone you don't recognize anymore is surprisingly easy.

9. Is a promise still valid when it was made to a completely different person?

10. Thank you.
I feel like poetry is always written from the heartbreak point-of-view. Try being on the other side. Knowing that chosing for your own happiness could destroy a person.
(it feels so good to write again)
Sean Hunt Apr 2016
My good friend Keith
Is trending often
Oftener than me
Sean Hunt Apr 2016
I know that
Some are
Guilty
But
Certainly
Not Me
Sean Hunt Apr 2016
If you only have
Ten words
They shouldn't be
Heard!
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