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"approving" poems

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SlutI can't name or count how many guys I've looked at approvingly thinking 'I'd love to fuck him' or whatever people say when they give that approving eye glance and nod thing. Of course I do it. All the time. I'm eighteen for gods sake. I can look! / However, / I can count all the guys I've genuinely fancied on both hands.

@brokenpromise22

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Virgin In A TreeHow this tart fable instructs / And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap / Set in the proverbs stitched on samplers

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I comfort her vagina, a coaxingwe lay together, 6:00am, body warmth touch-sharing, / as the June morning summer chill coming off its night nadir coolness / surrenders very reluctantly,

@solc-soul-of-lc-lives-on46

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OutcastProbe me antagonists, / For I am no longer afraid- / Of your shunning or your lynching,

@michelle-e-alba66

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Apparently with no surprise1624 / Apparently with no surprise / To any happy Flower

Emily Dickinson10

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In the Indie MomentWe love to chase the wind through streaks of blinding bliss, / Tagging the glorious ideals of love, peace, friendship, even / The meaning of life, to weeping willows and pensive pebbles.

@jonathan-lian30

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nothingnessi live in a nothing realm. where i am temporarily frozen in a state of acceptance. yet not always approving or denying its / assistance / taking only what i see gets absorbed into the list of unimportant information that rarely gets put to use. never pondering if it will decay or stunt the growth of my

@stellarrlunarr19

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I feel like a superheroI feel like a fucking superhero / when I think about You / walking around your college campus,

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Solipsism QuandaryPhilosophical epistemology strumming adventures / Albeit, coherent mental decoding stratifications structured / Supposedly our world rests in our minds, revolving knowledge

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15 Years-2/17/1997-2/17/2012 / 15 YEARS- / 15 years gone-

@richard-itskovich29

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Healing ScarsIn my head, / For a year, / I dreamt your name

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Two Days Before Christmas, 1990It was raining very torridly that day, / The cold was so frigid here in Karnal. / A pregnant lady was rushed to the hospital,

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postcard from the wildernessThere was a feeling that found me / in the midst of focus fading / a shimmering within the sun rays

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The FairI used to stand, dreaming / I could win that brown bear / Only takes three darts, top scores

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The ShrineThere is no lord within my heart, / Left silent as an empty shrine / Where rose and myrtle intertwine,

Sara Teasdale14

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The SeacherAll those years she spent searching for perfection / Could it be hiding / Within the flowery fumes that escaped from her blush when she snapped it open?

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lost identity'what do you / want to be when / you grow up?'

@distortedimages52

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A Blind EyeShould you stay and follow the ones that hold you / In a rambling verse of delicate lies / Not visit grieving spirits with tears overdue

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HaulingI / kept saying “I’m just glad no one got hurt,” last night when / I crushed a car driving a semi.

@sansara-justinovich62

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Child BrideDo not disturb a father's promise / to a man / three times the size,

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I know nothing of poetry...~for Robert C Howard, inspired by his “From Many, One” / I know nothing of poetry… / or ballet or symphonic works; a voyeur,

@nat-lipstadt23

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IndigoI miss you so much / I wish we didn’t have to part / I’m so sorry things didn’t work out

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the misuse of language among the property mafia idiotsbeing insulted by someone / of a trans- / status quo

@removed.polaroid-scrabble41

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The FairI used to stand, dreaming / I could win that brown bear / Only takes three darts, top scores

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