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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, st

@CweetaCwumble2m

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Menstruation at FortyI was thinking of a son. / The womb is not a clock / nor a bell tolling, / but in the eleventh month

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hands on firelet it not be confused / let no one else's name / ring throughout these sentences / let this be a ha

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The Blue BottleThe bright blue bottle hit me like a hint of death / on the breath of Spring. / I imagined it being

@GirardTournesol2m

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Happiness (After Sekou the Misfit)Ask me, / Ask me now daddy. / What I want to do when I grow up. / I want to be happy. / No, not happ

@elizabeth-raine3m

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"ism"abolitionism / absenteeism / absolutism / abstractionism / absurdism / academicism / academism / ach

@Ru7hl355_Gangsta5m

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SONNET TRIBUTE: CHRIS MEARSIn as much as I tamed the Infidel / Baptism pokes her Holistic White Tongue / Such that if you try t

@xavier-paolo-josh-mandreza1m

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You have no idea What it's like, to be a womanYou have no idea / What it's like, to be a woman / Everyday is a baptism by fire / As she walks on t

@Ashwinkumar19893m

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ReadyOn your Marc, Get Set, GO!! / 3 Marks, in 2 days / A sign... / Obvious in fact. / First there was th

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Untitled Realm # 4-Triangle.7uScraggly curl hair bounces in the air / wagging with whisky eyes breezy pleasing the eclectic electr

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Baptism...Foreward and AfterwardBaptism…Foreward / I prayed and hoped / I lost and wept / I was found by a boat / I, by the Lord’s w

@jenny-palisano1m

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Cleansing RainLook up and breathe it all in / The sky is crying, exploding / with a torrential waterfall. / Inhale

@harlon-rivers3m

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the preacher never wrote a poem about jeffrey dahmer's baptismthe preacher never wrote a poem / about dahmer's baptism: / 1. / he leaned across / the jail cell ta

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"Wake Up, We Miss You"We link our minds / you are our mother / Direct us to the sun / Art, Love, Music, Rebel / a Warrior,

@greyCacophony2m

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Last letter of loveMany speak of love in spring of their lives but I felt the winter deep set in my bones when I was yo

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AbsentThe ice skating rink / The Rockefeller tree / Cielo on Thursday night in NYC, / The holidays, Christ

@oriana-irene1m

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Hymn to an Art-o-matic LaundromatHymn to an Art-o-matic Laundromat / by Michael R. Burch / after Richard Thomas Moore’s “Hymn to an A

@michael-r-burch2m

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Energetic Life BoatYour voice is like a shower to my chakras, your energy like a baptism.

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The Wisdom of PeppersNever forget / there is poetry in dirt / in greens, in beets, / especially in rutabagas. / Three-dol

@walker-blagg-staples3m

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BaptismInto the furnace let me go alone; / Stay you without in terror of the heat. / I will go naked in--fo

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Sunday Morning Sea # 1I remember from my first memories with all senses humming waking up on Sunday mornings to the squeal

@geno-cattouse-12m

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Hunger[ED]Eating disorders are never romantic. / Sometimes, I dream of food: / Burgers, cakes, fries set out i

@ink-syndicate-poetry2m

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BaptismYou were born with a silver spoon in your mouth / and the world at your feet / always taunting me /

@jeneepatitucci2m

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ResurrectionI can't help but notice / How much harder / The rain hits my face / After I've sinned. / And if ther

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Mother's Day ProclamationArise then...women of this day! / Arise, all women who have hearts! / Whether your baptism be of wat

Julia Ward Howe3m

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