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Swinging in the Rain
I followed my dear friends to the edge of a cliff
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and was greeted by a peculiar thing.
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There, st
@CweetaCwumble
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Menstruation at Forty
I was thinking of a son.
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The womb is not a clock
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nor a bell tolling,
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but in the eleventh month
Anne Sexton
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hands on fire
let it not be confused
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let no one else's name
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ring throughout these sentences
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let this be a ha
@TomLeveille
3m
22k
The Blue Bottle
The bright blue bottle hit me like a hint of death
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on the breath of Spring.
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I imagined it being
@GirardTournesol
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Happiness (After Sekou the Misfit)
Ask me,
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Ask me now daddy.
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What I want to do when I grow up.
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I want to be happy.
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No, not happ
@elizabeth-raine
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"ism"
abolitionism
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absenteeism
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absolutism
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abstractionism
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absurdism
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academicism
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academism
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ach
@Ru7hl355_Gangsta
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SONNET TRIBUTE: CHRIS MEARS
In as much as I tamed the Infidel
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Baptism pokes her Holistic White Tongue
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Such that if you try t
@xavier-paolo-josh-mandreza
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7.5k
You have no idea What it's like, to be a woman
You have no idea
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What it's like, to be a woman
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Everyday is a baptism by fire
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As she walks on t
@Ashwinkumar1989
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Ready
On your Marc, Get Set, GO!!
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3 Marks, in 2 days
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A sign...
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Obvious in fact.
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First there was th
@kw3
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Untitled Realm # 4-Triangle.7u
Scraggly curl hair bounces in the air
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wagging with whisky eyes breezy pleasing the eclectic electr
@brycical
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Baptism...Foreward and Afterward
Baptism…Foreward
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I prayed and hoped
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I lost and wept
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I was found by a boat
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I, by the Lord’s w
@jenny-palisano
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Cleansing Rain
Look up and breathe it all in
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The sky is crying, exploding
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with a torrential waterfall.
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Inhale
@harlon-rivers
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the preacher never wrote a poem about jeffrey dahmer's baptism
the preacher never wrote a poem
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about dahmer's baptism:
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1.
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he leaned across
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the jail cell ta
@xanadu
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"Wake Up, We Miss You"
We link our minds
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you are our mother
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Direct us to the sun
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Art, Love, Music, Rebel
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a Warrior,
@greyCacophony
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Last letter of love
Many speak of love in spring of their lives but I felt the winter deep set in my bones when I was yo
@cucifix
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3.3k
Absent
The ice skating rink
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The Rockefeller tree
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Cielo on Thursday night in NYC,
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The holidays, Christ
@oriana-irene
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Hymn to an Art-o-matic Laundromat
Hymn to an Art-o-matic Laundromat
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by Michael R. Burch
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after Richard Thomas Moore’s “Hymn to an A
@michael-r-burch
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3.1k
Energetic Life Boat
Your voice is like a shower to my chakras, your energy like a baptism.
@jrg
1m
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The Wisdom of Peppers
Never forget
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there is poetry in dirt
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in greens, in beets,
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especially in rutabagas.
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Three-dol
@walker-blagg-staples
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2.9k
Baptism
Into the furnace let me go alone;
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Stay you without in terror of the heat.
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I will go naked in--fo
Claude McKay
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Sunday Morning Sea # 1
I remember from my first memories with all senses humming waking up on Sunday mornings to the squeal
@geno-cattouse-1
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2.8k
Hunger[ED]
Eating disorders are never romantic.
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Sometimes, I dream of food:
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Burgers, cakes, fries set out i
@ink-syndicate-poetry
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2.7k
Baptism
You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth
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and the world at your feet
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always taunting me /
@jeneepatitucci
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2.7k
Resurrection
I can't help but notice
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How much harder
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The rain hits my face
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After I've sinned.
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And if ther
@lX0st
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Mother's Day Proclamation
Arise then...women of this day!
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Arise, all women who have hearts!
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Whether your baptism be of wat
Julia Ward Howe
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2.6k
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