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Swinging in the RainI followed my dear friends to the edge of a cliff / and was greeted by a peculiar thing. / There, standing on the edge of the earth

@CweetaCwumble23

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Lips like the starsYour lips tasted / like the stars / i never got to see

@sydneymaelewis10

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One night in the new life...My backpack ready for anything, I left for a voyage across the pond. As fellow passengers climb aboard I met a 27 year old traveling musician named Russ carrying his cajòn. He told me of his travels from Massachusetts and pending divorce. We related on this and exchanged CD's. Behind us sitting on the Ferry were two young girls working on a puzzle. Russ imposed himself and tried to impress them with his musical endeavors. These girls were in America from Germany attending college. One was 17 and the other was 18 but I am sure they knew better than to play into his hand. After talk of language and culture we disembarked. Russ invited me to his show that night but I had plans to meet a girl at a board game pub. I walked to the bus stop while smoking my pipe and caught the number 40 from downtown to a trendy neighborhood up north. / After I stepped off I found myself amongst the overgrown players of games and drinkers of fine beer. Brittany arrived and we chatted over IPA's. I explained my recent challenges to get the topic of divorce out of the way before we left for Mexican food. She was very open in saying I should play the field and not have a serious relationship. I agreed with her take but could not read her as well as I had hoped. She said I need to get the rebounding out of the way and explained that she too is struggling with commitment. Being 34 with no marriage or children under her belt she feels that therapy is essential to figuring this out. / We walked to our happy hour destination and shared Nacho's while drinking "Colorado Kool-Aid". Both of us having spent a lot of time in Denver we could relate on much but I felt there was an elephant in the room. Afterwards we walked to a nearby record store and browsed while talking about music and interests. She needed to leave soon having obligations to housesit and watch pets. Dog walking is her profession since her departure from the world of corporate accounting. We walked to her unkempt sedan and she gave me a ride back downtown. We talked of hanging out again but our schedule may not permit for some time. I wonder if she will entertain my company without reservation, only time will tell.

@Patrick_Austin11

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liona lion out of the plains would be sick / walking tall in a marsh / with mud in his pretty mane?

@christine-eglantine13

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ImmigrationI like immigrants, immigration. *Legal* immigration, / Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world. / Gathering the neighborhood like family.

@robert-ronnow31

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WindowsillThe distant park / Was a graveyard of dead stars. / Each streetlight a system of worlds,

@Edward-Coles65

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A cold heart, A cold CityMy city is cold, / The people are cold. / The weather is cold too.

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MumbaiMumbai is rich, Mumbai is poor. / Mumbai is fast, Mumbai is slower. / Little bit sweet, and little bit sour,

@jasraj-sangani38

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Jack's Time OutWhat luxury to get mad / about last night's basketball loss / and watch the full moon descending

@robert-ronnow24

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A Dream in Black & WhiteA harbor town, just like this one, swept up in fog / the seagulls, ghosts emerging from the skies / the river glistens soft & wide,

@dreams-of-sepia14

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tulip bloomstulip blooms / pebbles cemented into sidewalk / we notice neither

@richard-j-heby3

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The city of lightsThere's twenty five million people in the city tonight / They each breathe fire, like flames they ignite / They're a city of saints, they're monsters, they're warriors born to fight

@AFerrisWheelCalledKarma4

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*** with GrendelWith those acid wash jeans / With that full sleeve of twirling black ink / With the drapes of long hair

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i fell in love with a girl in london and i'd do it all over just to see her smile at me againmy heart nearly stopped every time i had to cross the street / so let’s thank the queen for writing it down / before she’s just another thing i have to step over

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Ghost Townmaybe the buildings are hollow, / occupied only in facade on the first floor of storefronts / maybe this whole town is a hologram

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Pearl of the OrientManila, / Manila, / Your bustling streets vibrate with the rumbling of the jeepneys

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concrete stalker.lightning bolt earrings; / bangles jangle on dark wrists: / an urban Gypsy.

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Buzzed Poets Round TableSipping the air of a city night / So heady in the cold / On the move under static lights

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CityscapeThe riled route master and the hacked off hackney carriage weren't bothered by the boris bike, they simply barreled along the bus lane oblivious to the wobble, blind to the blindsided and bent on beating the amber to red, til they were halted by the growth factor of a chelsea tractor straddling lanes and field testing the choice of right or left and failing the screen test set by the sat nav, thereby giving opportunity to the swarm of office staffers snatching their chance and chancing their luck, dancing past with their fat chance of swiping in before nine and avoiding the chagrin of the boss who's been the bane of their short sojourn through the city of lost dreams, chance encounters, thin fortune and rushed hours. This is London.

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skateboard gothicson spreads knee blood into ******* &/or / sidewalk chalk. / mixes reds to pinks with head cracking asphalt.

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Small townSmall town, / starry night, / the playback of old times on vinyl,

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city sceneneon lights / illuminate the night’s / heavy clouds

@OpenWorldView8

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Augusta, GASaturated in steely blue clutches, sweating from the 75 degree Georgia night / strung up and washed out with a serpent woman that keeps bringing on the blight / Singing you a song of bliss and blinders.

@Rather-timbuilt27

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