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"battles" poems

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submissions to post secretkissing you was like swerving into oncoming traffic / i can never tell if i am more haunted by empty picture frames or the ashes of their contents / you taught me that the saying *"pick your battles"* meant not answering when love was at the door

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SiblingsNow you have to understand / that the greatest gift a child can receive is a sibling. / Wrapped up in that hospital delivery is limitless potential.

@donald-charles-mark-keys16

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WarriorDo you believe in destiny? / That you were born for a certain need / A certain path you are told to follow

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"What is Diversity?"They didn't know what Diversity was... / The kids, that is. / Since the kids didn't know it,

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Be Your LoveTo love one’s self / To accept her flaws instead of thinking out why she’s helpless / Know that you are amazing

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Bipolar FriendWho are you? / You're not the same person you were two minutes ago. / I just don't get you.

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SiblingsA lone child might be settle in being the only one. / But many siblings can describe their many ways of fun. / Whether it's wrestling until it turns into a fight.

@jeffrey-conyers22

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Water, is taught by thirst135 / Water, is taught by thirst. / Land—by the Oceans passed.

Emily Dickinson7

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Conditional LoveI love you with all my might, / All my heart and all my life. / But if you fail to put up with my battles,

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My PenMy pen is a wand. It can write a curse or a powerful charm. My pen is a mirror. It can show you a monster or a beautiful figure. My pen is a key. It can free you from a trapped door or it can lock you inside that door until the oxgen runs out and you can't breath. My pen is a weapon. It will fight righteous battles or make a gruesome dissection. My pen is a balancing scale. / It is a balancing scale because it tilts when the yin & yang of my being begins to out weight one other. / Nothing is safe from my pen if i choose it not to be, my pen writes freely without filters or censorship.

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atlas capturedgods and goddesses stilled mid-flight, / immortalized in a glory fast fading. / distilled sunlight filtering through, unheeded,

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StrugglesStruggles come and struggles go / annihilate each, together with its' bearer / regardless if he identifies himself as friend or foe

@mihlali-stwayi10

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عيد ميلاد أحد الأصدقاء ( A friend's birthday) arabic tongue - birthday dedication to Thepoet ( Sarah Ahmed)i. / Happy birthday / To thee, dearest

@brandon-nagley44

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An Invincible SummerThe boxes / which keep my blood clean / are stacked as tall as I,

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I am NerdI am a nerd / Who finds pleasure in books of fiction / Of life in fiction

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GlobalizationMankind began as a troop animal. / Living amongst its own kind. / Stepping out of the trees onto the Savanna.

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The Devil's ClawI want to say that I'm getting better, / that these scars are starting to feel / like the marks of a warrior who has won battles,

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WarriorIt's so much easier to make the same mistakes / to wage a war upon myself / It's so much simpler to smile in your face

@eisen-pacheco32

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Insecurities.The future: Insecurities. / Like a black chasm, / (swallowing your absentees).

@keren-ophelia-mulia17

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Journey to our kingdomMy King, / At sixteen we have the world at our feet. / We're building our future with unsteady hands.

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While you were sleeping...And then you're sleeping - / purring kitten curled in pink DMs / all crumpled kisses and angel hair

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Dance of peaceI stand here; / outside my balcony / amidst darkness

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scarsto me / scars are beautiful / they show us where we've been

@absolute-alexandra21

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WEIt's hard to see / Goodness / It's easy to hear the

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